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Rep-PCR in Molecular Biology
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
The use of repetitive element PCR fingerprinting is molecular biology based method very suitable for rapid grouping and tentatively identification of microorganisms. Eukaryotic and prokaryotic DNA contains so-called repetitive DNA elements distributed more or less randomly over the genome.
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Genetics
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Polyploidy in Plants - Its Origine
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
One of the remarkable features of living material is their ability to perpetuate themselves. However, the ever dynamic nature of the surrounding environment has imposed upon plants, much like other organisms, various evolutionary and selective bottlenecks necessitating the adoption of ways and means by organisms to keep their 'race going'.
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Agriculture
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Soybean Biotechnology: An Outlook
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RAMESH S.V
The article provides a bird eye view on soybean biotechnology and molecular biology research and achievements world over. The hugely successful genetic modifications of soybean coupled with genome sequecing project by Department of energy-Joint genome initiative (DOE-JGI) with potential implications for biofuel exploitation of the crop makes it one of the most loved species by crop biotechnologist
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Agriculture
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Roundup Ready Soybean: A Success Story of Biotechnology and Concerns Associated
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RAMESH S.V
Round up Ready soybean is a genetically modified soybean crop accomplished with the aid of biotechnological tools for effective gene isolation from an un-related species and incorporation techniques in to soybean. The article discusses the modus operandi of the transgenic generation, biosafety issues associated with it.
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Agriculture
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SSF Technology For Solid Waste Management
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S gaind
Solid state fermentation popularly referred as SSF is a process of growing microbes on moistened solid substrate, in which enough moisture is present to maintain microbial growth and metabolism, but there is no free moving water
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Applications
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Scuba Diving For Marine Microbiologists
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Sonali Bhawsar
All the oceans of the earth are inhabited by extremely diverse microorganisms. The present research scenario is still very scanty to understand various physiological and functional characteristics of these microcreatures. Researchers needs to explore microbes from extreme ocean habitats like deep thermal vents, ocean bed and crust, coral colonies and endosymbiotants of crustaceans and other marine fauna.
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Careers
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Biogas Formation and an Urge For Its Intensive Utilization
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Sonali Bhawsar
Biogas generation is one of the natural and effective means of biodegradation of waste materials which are usually dumped in the ground untreated. So it would also help to reduce ground water, soil and air pollution and a great solution for rural and urban waste management.
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Applications
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Transgenic Plants - The Impact on Environment
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
Modern agriculture is intrinsically destructive of the environment. It is particularly destructive of biological diversity, notably when practiced in a very resource-inefficient way, or when it applies technologies that are not adapted to environmental features of a particular area. As with the development of any new technology, a careful approach is warranted.
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Genetics
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DArT (Diversity Arrays Technology) in Molecular Breeding
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
DArT is one of the recently developed molecular techniques and it has only been used in various crops for genetic diversity and mapping studies. it has many advantages and limitation in supporting the plant breeding programme, to bring desired changes in crop plant.
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Agriculture
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GM Technology - Benefit to Agriculture
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
GM technology has been used to produce a variety of crop plants to date, primarily with 'market-led' traits, some of which have become commercially successful. Developments resulting in commercially produced varieties in countries such as the USA and Canada have centred on increasing shelf-life of fruits and vegetables, conferring resistance to insect pests or viruses, and producing tolerance to specific herbicides.
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Agriculture
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Transgenic Plants and Safety of Human Health
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
Now a days, the new technologies proliferated to solve many problems not only in animals, microbes etc. but also in crop improvement programmes. scientific world is moving in a fast phase to achieve required/ desired targets, in the same time, there is a need of intensive study on advers effects of these technologies on human and animal health.
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Agriculture
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Use of Biotechnology in Plant Breeding
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
Biotechnology is one of the powerful and potential technology for bring desired changes in the characteristics of plants, where there is a limited variation is present. This technology can be make use in plant improvement, which may be involve quality or quantity aspects. This is also helpful to bring improvement across the species barrier.
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Agriculture
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Natural Selection - A Genetic Basis
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
Natural selection is the evolutionary process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their compatible reprodducible individuals. It is a key mechanism of evolution of species.
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Genetics
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Speciation Patterns | Sympatric Speciation by Polyploidy
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
Speciation is the evolutionary process where in A group of individuals are potential to mate each other and produce viable and fertile off springs. The speciation lead by different patterns.
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Agriculture
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Important Ways CNAs Ensure That the Elderly With Joint
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Merlin Men
The actual role associated with CNAs (Certified Medical Assistants) in the breastfeeding care of seniors is a essential one. CNAs are on inside the top path of patient care in assisted living and long-term care amenities.
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Toxicology
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Virtual Screening- a Promising Approach to Drug Discovery
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vanika garg
Drug discovery and development is a chain process starting with target and lead discovery, followed by lead optimization and then clinical studies. It is the fastest growing industry. So the need of finding possible drug candidate is increasing exponentially. Out of number of techniques available,VS is increasingly gaining acceptance as it is a very reliable, cost-effective and time saving process
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Bioinformatics
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Are You at Risk For Diabetes?.
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Steven Dome
The Major Diabetes Causes. Diabetes is broken down int 2 types, Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 diabetics are insulin dependent. Type 1 diabetes could occur at any time. Type 2 is moreover called adult onset diabetes because it happens during adulthood; those diagnosed with it are not insulin dependent. Here are a limited of the main causes of these different kinds of the disease.
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Healthcare
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Plant Breeding and its Goals
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
Plant breeding, application of genetic principles to produce plants that are more useful to humans. This is accomplished by selecting plants found to be economically or aesthetically desirable, first by controlling the mating of selected individuals, and then by selecting certain individuals among the progeny. Such processes, repeated over many generations, can change the hereditary makeup and value of a plant population far beyond the natural limits of previously existing populations. This article emphasizes the application of genetic principles to the improvement of plants; the biological factors underlying plant breeding are dealt with in the article heredity.
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Agriculture
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Synthetic Variety Development
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
A synthetic variety is developed by intercrossing a number of genotypes of known superior combining ability--i.e., genotypes that are known to give superior hybrid performance when crossed in all combinations. (By contrast, a variety developed by mass selection is made up of genotypes bulked together without having undergone preliminary testing to determine their performance in hybrid combination.) Synthetic varieties are known for their hybrid vigour and for their ability to produce usable seed for succeeding seasons. Because of these advantages, synthetic varieties have become increasingly favoured in the growing of many species, such as the forage crops, in which expense prohibits the development or use of hybrid varieties.
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Agriculture
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SDS-PAGE and its Applications in Crop Improvement
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
SDS-PAGE, Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis, describes a technique widely used in biochemistry, forensics, genetics and molecular biology to separate proteins according to their electrophoretic mobility (a function of the length of a polypeptide chain and its charge). In most proteins, the binding of SDS to the polypeptide chain imparts an even distribution of charge per unit mass, thereby resulting in a fractionation by approximate size during electrophoresis.
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Agriculture
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The Modern Technology For the Industrial Centrifuge
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Dr. Andrew Drucker
In recent few days, a lot of biotechnology specialists have asked me, which is the best centrifuge for Industry and laboratory use. For that reason, I have studied a lot of centrifuges specification, made in Europe, USA, ASIA and one of the biggest bio technology producing country-India.
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Others
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Which Country is the Best Industrial Centifuge Producer?
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Dr. Andrew Drucker
I will recommend you the most powerful, modern centrifuges like as PENNWALT AS-16, 26. In my opinion, India is getting powerful for centrifuge industries.
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Others
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Proteome - The Useful in Understanding Plant Insight
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
The proteome is the entire set of proteins expressed by a genome, cell, tissue or organism. More specifically, it is the set of expressed proteins in a given type of cells or an organism at a given time under defined conditions. The term is a portmanteau of proteins and genome.
The term has been applied to several different types of biological systems. A cellular proteome is the collection of proteins found in a particular cell type under a particular set of environmental conditions such as exposure to hormone stimulation. It can also be useful to consider an organism's complete proteome, which can be conceptualized as the complete set of proteins from all of the various cellular proteomes. This is very roughly the protein equivalent of the genome.
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Agriculture
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Induced Mutations - Basis For Beneficial Application in Plant Breeding
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
There were a number of futile attempts to link the successful performance of crop plant mutants to the mutagen and the applied dose by which they were originally induced, but there are hardly any investigations about the molecular changes of genes in the genomes of improved mutant cultivars, and only few concerning specific crop plant mutants.
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Others
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Artificially Induced Mutations
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
Breeding has been practiced since the early human civilization and selection was the first method of breeding, adding the criteria of suitability for man's use (e.g. larger seed, better taste, easier harvestability) to those of natural adaptation, fitness and offspring. It has been said, that the ultimate source of all heritable variation to select from are mutations. But such a statement leaves open, where the genes to start with and the genetic code came from. Recombination of genes can provide additional genetic variation, if differences exist not only between various genes, but also in form of alleles of particular genes of prospective recombinants. Such alleles derive from mutations. Using mutants in cross breeding requires no in depth knowledge about mutations, because the mutated trait is the object of desire. But when the mutant trait is not inherited as expected, the breeder may begin to think about the actual mutational event, that led to the mutant phenotype.
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Agriculture
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Transcriptome - Aventure Into Crop Improvement
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
The transcriptome is the set of all RNA molecules, including mRNA, rRNA, tRNA, and other non-coding RNA produced in one or a population of cells.
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Agriculture
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Molecular Markers as Size and Sequence Variants
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
Molecular markers have great potential to assist plant breeders in development of improved varieties by complementing phenotypic selection. This module provides an overview of molecular markers. Technology used for genotyping is rapidly changing, requiring us to think beyond markers as bands on a gel.
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Others
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Background Selection - Genomes
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
Background selection refers to selection applied to regions of the genome that are not known to be associated with desired traits. This type of selection is usually referred to in the context of trait introgression. Trait introgression, the process of integrating a trait from one species into another, is a common strategy used for crop improvement.
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Agriculture
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Gene Pyramiding in Crop Improvement
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
The development of molecular genetics and associated technology like MAS has led to the emergence of a new field in plant breeding-Gene pyramiding. Pyramiding entails stacking multiple genes leading to the simultaneous expression of more than one gene in a variety to develop durable resistance expression. Gene pyramiding is gaining considerable importance as it would improve the efficiency of plant breeding leading to the development of genetic stocks and precise development of broad spectrum resistance capabilities. The success of gene pyramiding depends upon several critical factors, including the number of genes to be transferred, the distance between the target genes and flanking markers, the number of genotype selected in each breeding generation, the nature of germplasm etc. Innovative tools such as DNA chips, micro arrays, SNPs are making rapid strides, aiming towards assessing the gene functions through genome wide experimental approaches. The power and efficiency of genotyping are expected to improve in the coming decades.
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Agriculture
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Gas Chromatography and its Applications
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SUNIL KUMAR, S.V.
Chromatography, in one of its several forms, is the most commonly used procedure in contemporary chemical analysis and the first configuration of chromatography equipment to be produced in a single composite unit and made commercially available was the gas chromatograph.
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Agriculture
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