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Author:   Sukhada Mohandas ,  Kundapura V. Ravishankar
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   8.196kg
ISBN:  

9789811015830

ISBN 10:   981101583
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   25 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Section I. Genomics.- History, Origin, Domestication and Evolution.- Banana  Breeding.- Genes and markers: Application in banana crop improvement.- Current status of Banana genome in the age of Next Generation Sequencing.- Genomics of Biotic stress tolerance in Banana.- Abiotic stress tolerance research  using-omics approaches.- Molecular analysis of fruit ripening in Banana.- Metabolite profiling in banana.- II.  Genetic engineering.- Novel  Gene Transfer Technologies.- Somatic Embryogenesis as a tool in genetic transformation.- Promoters analysis.- Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- Transgenic Technologies for Bacterial Wilt Resistance.- Engineering  Resistance to Fusarium wilt.- Transgenic Resistance to Sigatoka.- Engineering Resistance to Viruses.- Improvement of  pest (nematode and weevil) resistance through transgenic approaches.- Molecular farming : Prospects and limitation.- Pro-vitamin A enrichment for Tackling Malnutrition.- Biofortification for Alleviating Iron Deficiency Anemia. 

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Dr. Sukhada Mohandas is currently the Director of company SM Plant Production Technologies Pvt Ltd. in Bangalore involved in development of planting material of banana and other horticultural crop cultivars. She  retired from  Agriculture Research Service of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research  in 2013 after serving in Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, India for 35 years and thereafter as Emeritus scientist for two years. Her group was actively involved in cloning genes and in development of transgenic banana for fusarium wilt resistant for the past one decade. She is a recipient of several awards important among them being 1. Jawaharlal Nehru Award for the best Ph.D thesis -1980, 2. Indian National Science Academy’s Young Scientist Award- 1981, 3. C.N.Patel Industrial Award for women scientists by VASVIK foundation-1993 and 4. Panjabrao- Deshmuk Outstanding Woman Agricultural Scientist Award 1998. She has authored  more than 200 publications.  Dr. K. V. Ravishankar is currently Principal Scientist at ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, India. He has  been associated with the Division of Biotechnology for last two decades. His area of research interests are genetics, genomics, association studies and marker assisted breeding  of horticultural crops. His group was involved in the development of microsatellite markers in many  crop species like mango, wild banana Musa balbisiana,  okra, Garcinia indica, G. morella, G. gummigutta. In addition to this, his group works on functional genomics of fusarium wilt , drought and heat tolerance in banana; fruit development and ripening in mango; and  tomato leaf curl virus resistance, early blight tolerance and drought/heat tolerance in tomato. His laboratory is also involved in marker assisted breeding of many horticultural crops. He has published 4 book chapters and over 50 research papers.

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