Applied molecular biotechnology : the next generation of genetic engineering / edited by Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Debmalya Barh -- Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, c2016. – (58.21/A652) |
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1 Emerging tools and approaches to
biotechnology in the omics era 1
Section I Plant
biotechnology
Chapter 2 Plant molecular biology: Tools to develop
transgenics 33
Chapter 3 Plant molecular biotechnology: Applications
of transgenics 61
Chapter 4 The chloroplast gene-expression system 91
Chapter 5 Molecular biology of mitochondria: Genome,
transcriptome, and proteome 127
Chapter 6 Plant functional genomics: Approaches and
applications 157
Chapter 7
Whole-genome resequencing: Current status and future prospects in
genomics-assisted crop improvement 187
Chapter 8 Molecular biotechnology of
plant-microbe-insect interactions 213
Chapter 9 Biotechnology for improved crop productivity
and quality 231
Chapter 10
Overview of methods to unveil the epigenetic code 249
Section II Animal
biotechnology
Chapter 11 Animal
models and biomedical research 267
Chapter 12
Variations in our genome: From disease to individualized cure 289
Chapter 13
Molecular biotechnology for diagnostics 303
Chapter 14
Techniques for cervical cancer screening and diagnosis 345
Chapter 15 Type 2
diabetes mellitus, obesity, and adipose tissue biology 377
Chapter 16 Human
tissue banking and its role in biomedical research 387
Section III
Industrial and environmental biotechnology
Chapter 17
Microbial biotechnology 405
Chapter 18
Molecular biology of viruses: Disease perspective 423
Chapter 19 Viral
biotechnology: Production perspective
453
Chapter 20
Cell-free biosystems 465
Chapter 21
Magnetic nanoparticles with multifunctional water-soluble polymers for
bioapplications 485
Chapter 22
Industrial biotechnology: Its applications in food and chemical industries 517
Chapter 23
Environmental biotechnology: Approaches for ecosystem conservation
Chapter 24 Marine
biotechnology: Focus on anticancer drugs
555
Chapter 25
Engineering genomes for biofuels
Index 599