Introduction to Plant Biotechnology. 3rd. ed. 2009. 16 col. pls. XXIX, 698 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

This book covers all the important aspects of plant tissue culture viz.nutrition media, micropropagation, organ culture, cell suspension culture, haploid culture, protoplast isolation and fusion, secondary metabolite production, somaclonal variation and cryopreservation. Forgood understanding of recombinant DNA technology, chapters of geneticmaterial, organization of DNA in the genome and basic techniques involved in recombinant DNA technology have been added. Different aspects on rDNA technology covered gene cloning, isolation of plantgenes, transposons and gene tagging, in vitro mutagenesis, PCR, molecular markers and marker assisted selection, gene transfer methodschloroplast and mitochondrien DNA transformation, genomics and bioinfor-matics. Genomics covers functional and structural genomics, proteomics,metabolomics, sequencing status of different organisms and DNA chiptechnology. Application of biotechnology has been discussed as trans-genics in crop improvement and impact of recombinant DNA technology.