Microorganisms Are Living Things Like Plants And Animals But Because Of Their Minute Size And Omnipresence, Performing Experiments With Microbes Requires Special Techniques And Equipment Apart From Good Theoretical Knowledge About Them. This Easy To Use Revised And Updated Edition Provides Knowledge About All The Three I.E., Techniques, Equipment And Principles Involved.The Notable Feature Of This Edition Is The Addition Of New Sections On Bacterial Taxonomy That Deals With The Criteria Used In Identification, Phylogeny And Current System Of Classification Of Procaryotes Based On The Second Edition Of Bergey Manual Of Systematic Bacteriology And The Section One On History Of Discovery Of Events That Covers Chronologically Important Events In Microbiology With The Contribution Of Pioneer Microbiologists Who Laid The Foundation Of The Science Of Microbiology. In The Subsequent Twenty-Two Sections, Various Microbiological Techniques Have Been Described Followed By Several Experiments Illustrating The Properties Of Microorganisms And Highlighting Their Involvement In Practically Every Sphere Of Life.Along With The Cultivation/Isolation/Purification Of Microbes, This Edition Also Contains Exercises Concerning Air, Soil, Water, Food, Dairy And AgriculturalMicrobiology, Bacterial Genetics, Plant Pathology, Plant Tissue Culture And Mushroom Production Technology. This Manual Contains 163 Experiments Spread Over 22 Different Sections. The Exercises Are Presented In A Simple Language With Explanatory Diagrams And A Brief Recapitulation Of Their Theory And Principle.The Exercises Are Selected By Keeping In Mind The Easy Availability Of Cultures, Culture Media And Equipment. Appendices At The End Of The Manual Provide A Reference To The Source For Obtaining Cultures Of Microbes, Culture Media And Preparation Of Various Stains, Reagents And Media In The Laboratory And Classification Of Procaryotes According To The First And Second Editions Of Bergey Is Manual Of Systematic Bacteriology.This Book Would Be Useful For The Undergraduate And Postgraduate Students, Teachers And Scientists In Diverse Areas Including The Biological Sciences, The Allied Health Services, Environmental Science, Biotechnology, Agriculture, Nutrition, Pharmacy And Various Other Professional Programmes Like Milk Processing Units, Diagnostic (Clinical) Microbiological Laboratories And Mushroom Cultivation At Small Or Large Scales.

This Manual Is Intended To The Undergraduate And Post-Graduate Students In Microbiology As Well As Botany And Zoology In Which Microbiology Is Being Taught As Ancillary Subject. This Manual Explains Exercises In Simple Terms With Sufficient Background And Principle Of The Experiments. Illustrations Are Provided Along With The Protocols For Effective Understanding The Experiments. This Manual Deals With The Experiments In Basic Microbiology, Microbial Physiology Metabolism, Soil, Agricultural, Water And Medical Microbiology. It Is Expected That Beginners And Graduate Students In Microbiology Will Be Benefited From This Manual.

This book is a manual of Marine and Mangrove fungi and is designed primarily for Post graduate students and Research scholars. There are currently a number of manual of Marine and Mangrove fungi around the world that explicitly or implicitly address the needs of identification of fungi.

This book gives insight view about post harvest management in plant pathology which has changed its emphasis in recent years. Food safety has emerged as a key element in decay control programs.Continued failures to effectively control certain post harvest diseases and the need for more environmental friendly crop control materials is driving a new approach to disease control.Integrated postharvest decay control is the concept that offers the most promise for the future.Society can no longer rely on one or two control strategies but must enlist the entire spectrum of strategies to reduce post harvest losses.

Current Perspectives in Bioscience Research is more inclined towards interdisciplinary studies. Recent developments in the technologies have led to a better understanding of living systems and this has removed the demarcations between various disciplines of life sciences. A new trend in life science incorporates biological research involving a merger of diverse disciplines such as (Zoology: Entomology & Fisheries, comparative anatomy of vertebrates and toxicology), Botany etc. The book encompasses topics on A Review on the potential of marine microbes in bio-plastics production, Phytochemical analysis and antibacterial activity of Nyctanthes arbor-tristis Linn against UTI causing pathogenic bacteria, Bioefficacy of Trichoderma isolates against fungal pathogens, Exotic Vs Exotic – A Promising Mode of Weed Control, Bioplastics - Production of plastics from Banana peels, CRISPR CAS9 in Gene Editing, A Review on mobile phones, a bridge for transmission of microbes, Appraisal on Diagnosis Treatment and Prophylaxis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Preservation and microbial contamination of frozen foods, Nutraceuticals as alternative therapeutics for Parkinson’s disease, Decolorization of textile effluent using plant-based natural coagulants - A review, Vaccine Safety, Biodiversity and Biotechnological Potentials of Fungi from Marine Ecosystem, Bacterial Biofertilizers – An Overview, Nanoparticles as Feed supplements for Livestock animals and Isolation of Methionine producing Bacteria from Marine Environment distributed throughout Seventeen chapters for the benefits of graduate and postgraduate students as well as young researchers and scientists. In addition, this book provide newer techniques and the use of modern tools in achieving the potential of Antimicrobial activity, Food and Microbial technology, Vaccine technology, of vertebrates and COVID-19, this is all used to understand the challenges found in biological sciences.

Textbook of Microbiology provides a structured approach to learning by covering all the important topics in a simple, uniform and systematic format. The book is written in a manner suited to the undergraduate and postgraduate of Microbiology / Industrial Microbiology courses. The language and diagrams are particularly easy to understand and reproduce while answering essay type questions. Sections I of the book covers essentials of Microbiology including history, scope and milestones in the development of microbiology. This is followed by detailed accounts of characteristics and classification of microorganisms including bacteria, virus, fungi and actinomycetes. Individual chapters on microscopy, isolation and maintenance of microorganisms, microbial growth provide a detailed account of these techniques and their use in microbiology. Section II of the book covers biochemistry, microbial genetics and some instrumentation including chapters on carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, gene regulation, translation and transcription along with detailed accounts of spectrophotometry, pH meter and fermenters. It broadly covers: Fundamentals of Microbiology Tools and Techniques used in Microbiology Basic Biochemistry Microbial genetics

Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival. Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods and nutrition to human communities, and are important indicators of environmental change. Yet the population trends of several arthropods species show them to be in decline. Arthropods constitute a dominant group with 1.2 million species influencing earth’s biodiversity. Among arthropods, insects are predominant, with ca. 1 million species and having evolved some 350 million years ago. Arthropods are closely associated with living and non-living entities alike, making the ecosystem services they provide crucially important. In order to be effective, plans for the conservation of arthropods and ecosystems should include a mixture of strategies like protecting key habitats and genomic studies to formulate relevant policies for in situ and ex situ conservation. This two-volume book focuses on capturing the essentials of arthropod inventories, biology, and conservation.Further, it seeks to identify the mechanisms by which arthropod populations can be sustained in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and by means of which certain problematic species be managed without producing harmful environmental side-effects. This edited compilation includes chapters contributed by over 80 biologists on a wide range of topics embracing the diversity, distribution, utility and conservation of arthropods and select groups of insect taxa. More importantly, it describes in detail the mechanisms of sustaining arthropod ecosystems, services and populations. It addresses the contribution of modern biological tools such as molecular and genetic techniques regulating gene expression, as well as conventional, indigenous practices in arthropod conservation. The contributors reiterate the importance of documenting and understanding the biology of arthropods from a holistic perspective before addressing conservation issues at large. This book offers a valuable resource for all zoologists, entomologists, ecologists, conservation biologists, policy makers, teachers and students interested in the conservation of biological resources.