Volume 1: Principles, Techniques, and Applications: History of Biotechnology Suhail Muzaffar and Bishun Deo Prasad Scope and Importance of Plant Biotechnology in Crop Improvement Ashish Ranjan and Devanshi Khokhani Scope of Plant Biotechnology in the Developing Countries Nand Sah Sterilization Technique Tushar Ranjan, Sangita Sahni, Bishnu Deo Prasad, Ravi Ranjan Kumar, Kumari Rajani, Vijay Kumar Jha, Vaishali Sharma, Mahesh Kumar, and Vinod Kumar Basic Principles and Recent Advances in Anther/Pollen Culture for Crop Improvement Govinal Badiger Bhaskara Embryo Culture and Endosperm Culture Manoj Kundu, Jayesh Pathak, and Sangita Sahni Callus Induction Tushar Ranjan, Bishnu Deo Prasad, Sunita Kumari, Ram Balak Prasad Nirala, Ravi Ranjan Kumar, Vijay Kumar Jha, Vaishali Sharma, Md Shamim, and Anand Kumar Protoplast Isolation and Fusion Uday Sajja, Tushar Ranjan, and Bishnu Deo Prasad Somaclonal Variation Ashutosh Pathak and Aruna Joshi Somaclonal Variation: A Tissue Culture Approach to Crop Improvement Kumari Rajani, Ravi Ranjan Kumar, Tushar Ranjan, Ganesh Patil, and Anand Kumar Restriction Endonucleases Shiv Shankar, Imran Uddin, and Seyedeh Fatemeh Afzali Ligation of Insert DNA in to Cloning Vector Tushar Ranjan, Pankaj Kumar, Bishnu Deo Prasad, Sangita Sahni, Vaishali Sharma, Sonam Kumari, Ravi Ranjan Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, Vijay Kumar Jha, and Prasant Kumar Blotting Techniques Prasant Kumar, Mitesh Dwivedi, ChandraPrakash, Sangita Sahni, and Bishun Deo Prasad Advances in PCR Technology and RNA Interference Suhail Muzaffar TILLING: Genome Poking with Diligences and Constraints G. Thapa and J. G. Hehir Advances in Molecular Techniques to Study Diversity Prasant Kumar, Mitesh Dwivedi, Mitesh B. Patel, Chandra Prakash, and Bishun Deo Prasad Protein Purification: Science and Technology Ganesh Patil, Ravi Ranjan Kumar, Tushar Ranjan, and Kumari Rajani Protein-Protein Interaction Detection: Methods and Analysis Vaishali Sharma, Tushar Ranjan, Pankaj Kumar, Awadhesh Kumar Pal, Vijay Kumar Jha, Sangita Sahni, and Bishun Deo Prasad Molecular Markers in Plant Biotechnology Gaurav V. Sanghvi and Gaurav S. Dave Development of Mapping Populations Anand Kumar, Tushar Ranjan, Ravi Ranjan Kumar, Kumari Rajani, and Chandan Kishore Principles and Practices of Mapping QTLs in Plants Sunayana Rathi, Akhil Ranjan Baruah, Surojit Sen, and Samindra Baishya Association Mapping: A Tool for Dissecting the Genetic Basis of Complex Traits in Plants Sweta Sinha, Amarendra Kumar, Renu Kushwah, and Ravi Ranjan Kumar Volume 2: Transgenics, Stress Management, and Biosafety Issues: Direct and Indirect Methods of Gene Transfer in Plants Nandlal Choudhary, Aruna Jangid, and Shikha Dhatwalia Chloroplast Transformation Tushar Ranjan, Sangita Sahni, Vinod Kumar, Pankaj Kumar, M. S., Vijay Kumar Jha, Vaishali Sharma, Prasant Kumar, and Bishun Deo Prasad Fungal Transformations and Advancements Varsha Mohan and Sangita Sahni RNA Interference and Virus-Induced Gene Silencing in Plants Mahesh kumar, Tushar Ranjan, Nagateja Natra, Md. Shamim, Kumari Rajani, Vinod Kumar, and Tamoghna Saha Virus-Induced Gene Silencing Kishore Dey, Michael Melzer, and John Hu Transgenic Plants and Their Application in Crop Improvement Vinod Kumar, Nimmy M S, Tushar Ranjan, Ravi Ranjan, Bishun Deo Prasad, and Chandan Kishore Genetically Modified Foods and Biodiesel Suhail Muzaffar Improvement of Horticulture Crops through Biotechnological Approaches Anupam Adarsh, Pankaj Kumar, Bishun Deo Prasad, Randhir Kumar, and Tushar Ranjan Biotechnological Approaches for Crop Improvement in Flowers and Ornamental Plants S. Y. Chandrashekar, B. Hemla Naik, and R. Rasmi Recent Advances in the Development of Transgenic Crop Plants, Biosafety Aspects and Future Perspectives Subhankar Roy-Barman, Ravindra A. Raut, Atrayee Sarkar, Nazmiara Sabnam, Sanjukta Chakraborty, and Pallabi Saha Microbial Biotechnology: Role of Microbes in Sustainable Agriculture Deepak Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, P. Verma, and Md. Shamim Oxidative Stress in Plants: Overview on Reactive Oxygen Species Formation in Chloroplasts, Consequences and Experimental Approaches under Abiotic Stresses Deepak Kumar Yadav, Ankush Prasad, and Abhishek Mani Tripathi Biotechnological Approaches for Plant Disease Diagnosis and Management Ravi Ranjan Kumar, Ganesh Patil, Kumari Rajani, Shailesh Yadav, Nimmy M. S., and Vinod Kumar
