Bioresources and Bioprocess in Biotechnology

Part I. Bioresources

1. Bioresources: Current Status
N. S. Pradeep, Shiburaj Sugathan, Sabu Abdulhameed

2. Conservation of Bioresources
P. E. Rajasekharan

3. Biodiversity and the Processes of Law
Shalini Bhutani, Kanchi Kohli

4. Bioresources for Food and Nutrition Security: The Case of Wild Edibles of Western Ghats
M. K. Ratheesh Narayanan, Nadesapanicker Anil Kumar, Parameswaran Prajeesh

5. Climate Change and Biodiversity
A. Biju Kumar, R. Ravinesh

6. Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights
P. E. Rajasekharan, K. Souravi

7. Educating Biodiversity
Lekshmi K. Edison, S. Pradeep Kumar, N. S. Pradeep

8. Trends in Biodiversity Documentation and Assessment
A. R. Sivu, N. S. Pradeep

9. Biopiracy
P. K. Satheeshkumar, Anoop Narayanan

Part II. Strategies for Sustainable Utilization

10. Biodiversity Mining Through Transcriptome Analysis
K. K. Sabu, F. Nadiya

11. High-Throughput and In Silico Screening in Drug Discovery
Nandu Thrithamarassery Gangadharan, Ananda Baskaran Venkatachalam, Shiburaj Sugathan

12. Metagenomic Approaches for Novel Active Metabolites
Dharmaprakash Viszwapriya, Shunmugiah Karutha Pandian

13. Ethnic Knowledge in Classification and Conservation: A Case Study of Wild Yam in Western Ghats
V. Balakrishnan, Nadesapanicker Anil Kumar, M. K. Ratheesh Narayanan

Part III. Bioprospecting

14. Prospecting Extreme Niches
Indu C. Nair

15. Gene Banks and Bioprospecting
R. Aswati Nair, K. S. Jayakumar, P. Padmesh Pillai

16. Bioprospecting Traditional Medicine
Chethala N. Vishnuprasad, C. P. Unnikannan

17. Microbial Repositories in Bioprospecting
Gayathri Valsala, Shiburaj Sugathan

18. Medicinal Plants of India: Implications in Modern Medicine
Nimisha Vijayan, T. S. Swapna, G. Seghal Kiran, Sabu Abdulhameed

Nyckelord: Life Sciences, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology, Enzymology, Biodiversity, Plant Biochemistry