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This book covers recent advances in cyanobacterial research. It
deals with diversity, evolutionary biology, stress physiology,
molecular biology of stress responses, and biotechnology of this
group of prokaryotes. Cyanobacteria are ubiquitous and,
undoubtedly, agriculturally microorganisms in terms of carbon and
nitrogen fixation. In addition, cyanobacteria have long been used
to fertilize crops and are a source of protein for humans. In
parallel with the advances in cyanobacterial research in the 21st
century, the development and application of innovative techniques
in molecular biotechnology has widened the spectrum of commercial
applications and potential exploitation of cyanobacteria. This book
will be of interest to both new and experienced researchers
involved in cyanobacterial molecular biology, ecology, and
industrial biotechnology. This collection of chapters from experts
also serves as essential reading for undergraduate and graduate
students of to understand the importance of cyanobacteria in
agriculture, ecology, microbial physiology, and environmental
sciences.
The sugarcane crop, one of the most important crops commercially
grown in about 115 countries of the world, faces a number of
problems, such as low cane productivity, biotic and abiotic
stresses, high cost of cultivation, postharvest losses, and low
sugar recovery. This volume addresses these issues and provides a
comprehensive account of the major advancements in sugarcane
research. The book is compilation of recent achievements in
sugarcane development and cultivation. It covers a number of
improvements made in cane and sugar yield using both conventional
and new biotechnological approaches by agricultural scientists and
researchers. The comprehensive coverage includes sustainable
sugarcane cultivation, development, and management of sugarcane
production, covering farming and biotechnology, entomology,
pathology, breeding, physiology, biotechnology, agronomy, seed
production, and more. It also presents research on modern crop
production methods in a comprehensive and easily understood manner.
With chapters from expert researchers from internationally renowned
institutes (primarily in India), the volume presents the latest
information from the literature at the international level to make
it usable to many agroecological regions of the world. It will be a
valuable resource for agronomists, breeders, plant physiologists,
farmers, and students of agricultural sciences.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the basic and
advanced metabolic engineering technologies used to generate
natural metabolites and industrially important biomolecules.
Metabolic engineering has the potential to produce large quantities
of valuable biomolecules in a renewable and sustainable manner by
extending or modifying biosynthetic pathways in a wide range of
organisms. It has been successfully used to produce chemicals,
drugs, enzymes, amino acids, antibiotics, biofuels, and
industrially important pharmaceuticals. The book comprehensively
reviews the various metabolites detection, extraction and
biosensors and the metabolic engineering of microbial strains for
the production of industrially useful enzymes, proteins, organic
acids, vitamins and antibiotics, therapeutics, chemicals, and
biofuels. It also discusses various genetic engineering and
synthetic biology tools for metabolic engineering. In closing, the
book discusses ethical, patenting and regulatory issues in the
metabolic engineering of microbes. This book is a valuable source
not only for beginners in metabolic engineering, but also students,
researchers, biotechnology and metabolic engineering based company.
Currently, it is a serious concern to manage waste in the
environment. Therefore, detailed knowledge of heavy metals, their
eco-toxicological and health effects and ecofriendly approaches for
their immobilization and detoxification is urgently required to
control and minimize the environmental pollution. Composting is one
of the popular methods in waste management and there are a lot of
issues pertaining to composting. One of it is the leaching of heavy
metals. This book discusses thoroughly, the availability,
leachability and the speciation of heavy metals in the entire
process of composting.
This book presents the latest developments in bioinformatics,
highlighting the importance of bioinformatics in genomics,
transcriptomics, metabolism and cheminformatics analysis, as well
as in drug discovery and development. It covers tools, data mining
and analysis, protein analysis, computational vaccine, and drug
design. Covering cheminformatics, computational evolutionary
biology and the role of next-generation sequencing and neural
network analysis, it also discusses the use of bioinformatics tools
in the development of precision medicine. This book offers a
valuable source of information for not only beginners in
bioinformatics, but also for students, researchers, scientists,
clinicians, practitioners, policymakers, and stakeholders who are
interested in harnessing the potential of bioinformatics in many
areas.
Policy Issues in Genetically Modified Crops: A Global Perspective
contains both theoretical and empirical evidence of a broad range
of aspects of GM crop policies throughout the world. Emphasizing
world agriculture production and ethics of GM crops, the book
balances insights into the various discussions around the use of GM
crops including soil health, effects on animals, environmental
sustainability impact, and ethical issues. The book presents
aspects of GM crop policies and prevailing controversies throughout
the world, in 5 sections containing 23 chapters. Beginning with the
discussion of the policies related to GM crops, the book dives deep
into issues related to food insecurity, agricultural
sustainability, food safety, and environmental risks. Section 5
also captures the recent advances in agricultural biotechnology
encompassing research trends, the nano-biotech approach to plant
genetic engineering, and other transformation techniques in crop
development. The contributors of the book represent different
backgrounds, providing a holistic overview of diverse approaches
and perspectives. Policy Issues in Genetically Modified Crops: A
Global Perspective is a valuable resource for researchers in
agricultural policy and economics, agricultural biotechnology, soil
science, genetic engineering, ethics, environmental management,
sustainable development, and NGOs.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the basic and
advanced metabolic engineering technologies used to generate
natural metabolites and industrially important biomolecules.
Metabolic engineering has the potential to produce large quantities
of valuable biomolecules in a renewable and sustainable manner by
extending or modifying biosynthetic pathways in a wide range of
organisms. It has been successfully used to produce chemicals,
drugs, enzymes, amino acids, antibiotics, biofuels, and
industrially important pharmaceuticals. The book comprehensively
reviews the various metabolites detection, extraction and
biosensors and the metabolic engineering of microbial strains for
the production of industrially useful enzymes, proteins, organic
acids, vitamins and antibiotics, therapeutics, chemicals, and
biofuels. It also discusses various genetic engineering and
synthetic biology tools for metabolic engineering. In closing, the
book discusses ethical, patenting and regulatory issues in the
metabolic engineering of microbes. This book is a valuable source
not only for beginners in metabolic engineering, but also students,
researchers, biotechnology and metabolic engineering based company.
PGPR Amelioration in Sustainable Agriculture: Food Security and
Environmental Management explores the growth-promoting
rhizobacteria (PGPR) that are indigenous to soil and plant
rhizosphere. These microorganisms have significant potential as
important tools for sustainable agriculture. PGPR enhance the
growth of root systems and often control certain plant pathogens.
As PGPR amelioration is a fascinating subject, is multidisciplinary
in nature, and concerns scientists involved in plant heath and
plant protection, this book is an ideal resource that emphasizes
the current trends of, and probable future of, PGPR developments.
Chapters incorporate both theoretical and practical aspects and may
serve as baseline information for future research. This book will
be useful to students, teachers and researchers, both in
universities and research institutes, especially working in areas
of agricultural microbiology, plant pathology and agronomy.
There are no limits to science. Each advance merely widens the
sphere of exploration. Many a times the operator is confronted with
situations where direct restoration are not feasible nor advisable
because of extensive loss of tooth structure and /or need to modify
or change the present occlusion . Keeping teeth is important for
many functions, such as eating and speech, whilst in our present
society good esthetics are a high priority for the majority of
people. Dental care must also be designed to prevent any future
problems and to help to maintain this healthy environment. This
area of dentistry crosses many of the traditional departments that
exist in teaching hospitals throughout the world and includes the
disciplines of peridontology, operative dentistry, endodontics,
fixed and removable prosthodontics.
Advances in Cyanobacterial Biology presents the novel, practical,
and theoretical aspects of cyanobacteria, providing a better
understanding of basic and advanced biotechnological application in
the field of sustainable agriculture. Chapters have been designed
to deal with the different aspects of cyanobacteria including their
role in the evolution of life, cyanobacterial diversity and
classification, isolation, and characterization of cyanobacteria
through biochemical and molecular approaches, phylogeny and
biogeography of cyanobacteria, symbiosis, Cyanobacterial
photosynthesis, morphological and physiological adaptation to
abiotic stresses, stress-tolerant cyanobacterium, biological
nitrogen fixation. Other topics include circadian rhythms, genetics
and molecular biology of abiotic stress responses, application of
cyanobacteria and cyanobacterial mats in wastewater treatments, use
as a source of novel stress-responsive genes for development of
stress tolerance and as a source of biofuels, industrial
application, as biofertilizer, cyanobacterial blooms, use in
Nano-technology and nanomedicines as well as potential
applications. This book will be important for academics and
researchers working in cyanobacteria, cyanobacterial environmental
biology, cyanobacterial agriculture and cyanobacterial molecular
biologists.
Continuous use of chemical fertilizers resulted reduced soil and
water quality. So, use of biofertilizers should be adopted which
have multiple beneficial impacts on soil and convenient in use.The
production cost of carrier based inoculants is high as it is energy
and labour intensive process as mining, drying etc. and have poor
shelf life.Liquid inoculants with greater shelf life may provide a
solution over these problems. Liquid inoculants are special
formulations of viable cells of desired microorganisms in an
appropriate nutrient medium with certain protectant chemicals which
promote cell survival in formulations during storage and after seed
or soil application. Studies were conducted to develop suitable
growth media for liquid inoculants of Mesorhizobium sp. and
Pseudomonas sp., to examine the Shelf life and effect of nutrient
stresses on survival of these organisms under laboratory and field
conditions. Survival of Mesorhizobium sp. and Pseudomonas sp. was
found maximum in YEM-2 and NB-1 with Optimum levels of C and N.
Shelf life of liquid inoculants was found greater than carrier
based inoculants. This study is useful for researchers, farmers and
biofertilizer industries.
In texture classification the goal is to assign an unknown sample
texture image to one of a set of known texture classes.Important
applications include industrial and bio medical surface inspection,
for example for defects and disease, ground classification and
segmentation of satellite or aerial imagery, segmentation of
textured regions in document analysis, and content-based access to
image databases. However, despite many potential areas of
application for texture analysis in industry there is only a
limited number of successful examples. A major problem is that
textures in the real world are often not uniform, due to changes in
orientation, scale or other visual appearance. In addition, the
degree of computational complexity of many of the proposed texture
measures is very high.A wide variety of techniques for describing
image texture have been proposed in literature. This work is an
analysis of texture image classification in different classifier
under two different features called wavelet and statistical. The
result shows that image classification with wavelet feature and
feed forward neural network gives better result.
As we know almost all routing protocols are centralized in nature.
Some of the major matrices or parameters used by routing protocols
are hop count, bandwidth, delay, load, and reliability. These
parameters are suitable for infrastructure based networks. But in
Ad hoc Networks we require some efficient distributed and parallel
routing approach. This makes route discovery process more reliable
and provides high degree of link availability. Main objective of
this research work is to propose a more efficient distributed route
discovery process, using node mobility as parameter. This proposed
algorithm is also compared with some centralized routing
algorithms. We have evaluated this algorithm on the basis of
Quality of Service parameters.
There are a very large number of plants which contain compounds
lethal to terrestrial as well as aquatic pests at doses which are
some times below those for synthetic pesticides. Use of such
products has the additional advantage that these likely to cause
contamination of the environment. After all, such compounds are not
confined to the plants in which they are found but also possibly
get distributed in the environment through air and water. Most of
the studies have been done in this area however suffer from one
common drawback. While there is much information on the toxicity
and lethal doses of plant pesticides, very little literature is
available on their mode of action and affect on non-target
organisms. For a large number of plants, data from field studies is
lacking. Obviously these, substance cannot be put to commercial use
without a study of these aspects as well. The freshwater snail
Lymnaea acuminata and Indoplanorbis exustus are commonly found in
Northern part of India. These snails are intermediate host of liver
flukes Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica, which causes
endemic fascioliasis in cattle and live stock population in this
region.
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is an emerging healthcare problem
worldwide, but is fairly acute in developing countries like India.
Malnutrition is one of the major hurdles in long term survival of
dialysis patients, and it is recommended to initiate dialysis
before malnutrition sets in. Serum Leptin is increased in ESRD and
maybe responsible for Anorexia-Malnutrition syndrome. Studies by
researchers across the globe have produced evidence of both
'in-favor' and 'against' the topic of increase in Serum Leptin
causing malnutrition in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on
maintenance hemodialysis. This book documents the original study by
the authors to assess the correlation of Serum Leptin with Body
Mass Index (a biomarker for malnutrition) in ESRD patients on
maintenance hemodialysis in India.
Unequal power relations and lack of autonomy characterize the
situation of married women in many settings; the autonomy of
married young women is particularly constrained. In many countries
in South Asia and the Middle East, early and arranged marriages are
the norm and in most cases, the young woman scarcely knows her
husband and is not involved in marriage-related decision-making.
Worldwide, at least one woman in three has been beaten, coerced
into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime (JHU, 1999). Many
young women are faced with the challenge of saying no to
unprotected sex, especially when dependent economically and
socially on their male partners. The fear of violent consequences
contributes to the absence of any negotiating position for
protected sex (Development studies Network, 2000). This study tries
to explore the young married women's perception on sexual and
reproductive rights, gender roles and husband's behavior and its
association with their experiences of sexual & physical
violence and health problems.
Glaucoma is a condition of the eye in which the optic nerve is
damaged due to increased fluid pressure in the eye. Left untreated,
the condition may lead to permanent blindness. Optical coherence
tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging test that uses light
waves to take cross-section pictures of the retina, the
light-sensitive tissue lining the back of the eye
(geteyesmart.org). OCT is commonly used in the evaluation of
patients with glaucoma. This manual is a concise guide to the use
of OCT for the diagnosis of glaucoma. Beginning with an
introduction to OCT, the book then provides in depth discussion on
its use in glaucoma. Each of the following chapters describes the
use of OCT for analysing associated parts of the eye, including the
optic nerve, retinal nerve and ganglion cell, as well as macular
and anterior segment OCT. The advantages and common pitfalls in OCT
imaging and its interpretation are discussed at length. Key points
Concise guide to OCT for diagnosis and evaluation of glaucoma
Explains use of OCT for analysis of associated parts of the eye In
depth discussion of advantages and common pitfalls in OCT imaging
Includes more than 115 images and illustrations
The sugarcane crop, one of the most important crops commercially
grown in about 115 countries of the world, faces a number of
problems, such as low cane productivity, biotic and abiotic
stresses, high cost of cultivation, postharvest losses, and low
sugar recovery. This volume addresses these issues and provides a
comprehensive account of the major advancements in sugarcane
research. The book is compilation of recent achievements in
sugarcane development and cultivation. It covers a number of
improvements made in cane and sugar yield using both conventional
and new biotechnological approaches by agricultural scientists and
researchers. The comprehensive coverage includes sustainable
sugarcane cultivation, development, and management of sugarcane
production, covering farming and biotechnology, entomology,
pathology, breeding, physiology, biotechnology, agronomy, seed
production, and more. It also presents research on modern crop
production methods in a comprehensive and easily understood manner.
With chapters from expert researchers from internationally renowned
institutes (primarily in India), the volume presents the latest
information from the literature at the international level to make
it usable to many agroecological regions of the world. It will be a
valuable resource for agronomists, breeders, plant physiologists,
farmers, and students of agricultural sciences.
Abatement of Environmental Pollutants: Trends and Strategies
addresses new technologies and provides strategies for
environmental scientists, microbiologists and biotechnologists to
help solve problems associated with the treatment of industrial
wastewater. The book helps readers solve pollution challenges using
microorganisms in bioremediation technologies, including
discussions on global technologies that have been adopted for the
treatment of industrial wastewater and sections on the lack of
proper management. Moreover, limited space, more stringent waste
disposal regulations and public consciousness have made the present
techniques expensive and impractical. Therefore, there is an urgent
need to develop sustainable management technologies for industries
and municipalities. To remove the damaging effect of organic
pollutants on the environment, various new technologies for their
degradation have been recently discovered.
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