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This book gives a comprehensive account of Plant Molecular Biotechnology to serve a good hand book for the students of biotechnology course at various Indian Universities. As such the subject matter of this book has been conceived and presented with a broad aim to reach out to the students of M. Sc. and B. Tech. courses in biotechnology and also in essence to reach out to the faculties teaching plant biotechnology. The book contains twenty six chapters covered under three parts. Part A emphasizes on the overview of plant molecular biology in the areas like plant genome organization, plant promoters, plant gene expression, signal transduction and plant organellar genome organization as an indispensable basic tool to understand the concepts in plant biotechnology. Part B covers important aspects of plant tissue culture viz. , micro propagation, soma clonal variation, haploids and somatic hybrid production and strategies for plant secondary metabolite production. The next Part C, extensively overs topics on plant genetic engineering and biotechnological applications. The techniques of plant transformation have been elaborated. Comprehensive discussions have been made in the areas of plant engineering on trend setting topics like engineering plants for stress tolerance, male sterility, phytoremediation, transplastomic technology and metabolic engineering of plants. In view of fast emerging areas like biopharmaceuticals, topics on utility of plants for molecular farming of pharmaceutically important biomolecules and also tailoring plants for nutritional quality are included. Improvement of crop through transgenic strategies such as disease resistance, antisense technology in post harvest preservation has been discussed. Chapters on plant genomics covers overview of bioinformatics and outcome of Arabidopsis and rice genome sequencing projects and also includes other omic technologies. One of the highlights of this book is that it gives the concepts of both plant molecular biology and plant biotechnology with well updated information. This edition is for sale in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan and Sri Lanka only.
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