Molecular Biology And Biotechnology

ABOUT THE BOOKMolecular Biology and Biotechnology has become an integral part of undergraduate syllabi of all the universities. This book brings to the students accessible and up to date and illustrated information on the subject in simple language. The book covers an amazing range of topics from the basics of molecular biology to transgenics and production of useful metabolites including types of RNA, Inteins and protein folding, regulation of gene expression, enzymes of DNA synthesis, methods of DNA sequencing, tools of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. Sufficient details are given to cater the need of students of all the universities.ABOUT THE AUTHORSProf. K.G. Ramawat (born 1952) did his M.Sc. (1974) and Ph.D. (1978, Plant Biotechnology) from the University of Jodhpur, Jodhpur India and joined as faculty member in January 1979. He joined M.L. Sukhadia University as Associate Professor in 1991 and became Professor in 2001. He served as Head, Department of Botany (2001-2004), In-charge, Department of Biotechnology (2003-2004), member task force on medicinal and aromatic plants, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi (2002-2005) and co-ordinator UGC-DRS and DST-FIST programmes (2002-2007, 2009-14). He did his Post-doctoral at University of Tours, France (1983-85) and subsequently visited Tours (1991) and University of Bordeaux2, France (1995, 1999, 2003, 2006). He visited Poland under INSA-PAN academic exchange programme (2005). He has published more than 140 research papers and review articles in reputed journals and books. He has published several International books on Biotechnology of secondary metabolites and medicinal plants; completed several research projects and supervised doctoral thesis of 20 studentsDr. Shaily Goyal (born 1980) received her M.Sc. (2004) and Ph.D. (2008, Plant Biotechnology) from M.L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur. Currently she is working as Research Associate (CSIR) and has published about two dozen papers and reviews in International journals and books published by Springer Verlag, Germany. She is co-author ofthe book 'Comprehensive Biotechnology' by S. Chand & Company Ltd., New Delhi. She has travelled to Athens, Greece and Boston USA for her research work.