Laboratory Manual On Biotechnology

Today, plant biotechnology has become entrenched as a branch of science, and biotechnology courses have been included not only at university but even at school level reflecting the importance of the subject. Recently biotechnology has been introduced in syllabus of most of the universities, at the graduate and/or post graduate level(s), either as a separate paper or a part of it. For the better understanding of the subject it is imperative that students should be facilitated to learn the elementary laboratory protocol on different aspects of plant biotechnology. With this end in view, authors have prepared the present book entitled, Laboratory Manual on Biotechnology. The authors have been teaching biotechnology and realizes the problems of students. Therefore, this book is compiled to provide the students, the current in formations of different areas of practical biotechnology. In this book, various protocols have been described in very simple manner and worksheets have been provided to record the observations etc. Exercises have been so arranged that they have become linked to each other for better understanding of the rationale to carry out the exercises. The manual deals with seven different parts. The language of the text is simple and the subject matter is fully illustrated. In this book each experiment includes introduction, principle, materials, procedure and calculations. In addition, there are 19 appendices which give minute details on basic chemistry, buffer preparations and other aspects required for the conduct of the experiments. The methods given in the book will be useful for conducting practical classes at the undergraduate and post graduate levels in biotechnology, biochemistry, microbiology, agricultural sciences, environmental science, botany, zoology, genetics and plant breeding, pharmaceutical science and other biology-related subjects. This book will be bonanza for the research workers.