Potato is high yielding important crop worldwide, Alternaria solani is the causal agent early blight (EB) disease of potato that leads to major damages to potato crop. It is a major foliar disease of potato and causes 20-50% yield loses. Effective management of this disease requires implementation of an integrated disease management approach. The plant world comprises a rich source of biologically active natural products to control plant diseases. Plant extracts play an important role in the inhibition of seed borne diseases and may used as an alternative to currently used fungicides. Neem...

Annually, tons of cellulosic waste is generated in urban areas in the form of newspaper, office paper etc. The present study was conducted for isolation of cellulolytic bacteria and to analyze their efficiency towards decomposition of cellulose urban waste that is newspaper. Isolation of potential cellulolytic bacteria and their ability to produce enzymes CMCase, FPase and - glucosidase were studied. Cellulose is the basic structural material of plant cell wall, and as a result is the most plentiful carbohydrate that exists in environment. In the present study cellulose degrading bacterial...

This book provides you information about isolation, screening and selection of strains for amyloglucosidase production. Fungal isolates were isolated from different habitats.Information about evaluation of five different type of media. Detailed procedure of solid state fermentation technique for AMG prduction. Effect of different physical and chemical factors on the enzyme prduction also given in this book.

A major by product of poultry industry is waste feathers. The huge increase in size of individual production facilities and the total poultry industry has resulted in enormous increases in waste, particularly feathers, to be managed. Feather waste is produced in massive amount resulting in large quantities of this byproduct of poultry industry. Feathers constitute over 90% protein, the main component being beta-keratin, a fibrous and insoluble structural protein extensively cross linked by disulfide bonds. Keratin is resistant to digestion by animals, insects and proteases leading to serious...

Escalating trends in fossil fuel consumption has lead to shortage of energy domains. Cellulosic biomass is regarded the most promising substitute for supplementation of energy demands. Enzyme production from lignocellulosic biomass via biological route seems to be very attractive and sustainable due to ubiquitous nature of biomass and its non-competitiveness with food crops. The key element in bioconversion process of lignocellulosics to biofuels is the hydrolytic enzymes chiefly cellulases. Cellulases are the third largest industrial enzyme in the world and gaining rejuvenated interest due...

Fossil fuel depletion, increase in oil prices and adverse environmental effects of petroleum products have lead to sharp interest in biofuel production all over the world. The production of bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass is a sustainable and attractive energy source for transportation fuel to replace gasoline and substitute fossil fuels. Office papers due to high cellulose and carbohydrate content are potential raw materials for production of bioethanol. Termites feed on diet rich in hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin and harbour a natural mechanism which makes them able to degrade...

Fast growth of population and energy crisis are the main issues of today world. The objective of present study was to use renewable energy resources for sustainable environment. The biogas was produced from fruit and vegetable waste by anaerobic digestion and application of its byproduct as a fertilizer. The fruit waste, vegetable waste, buffalo dung was analyzed for moisture content, ash, protein, fiber, fat, carbon to nitrogen ratio, COD and BOD. Temperature and pH was checked after regular interval of time. Proximate analysis of Digestate(organic residue left after biogas production) was...

Zea mays is the most economically important annual crop. A vector containing GUS reporter gene was introduce into corn via Agrobacterium mediated transformation.Transformants of different varieties of maize will be efficiently produced.The transformants will be histochemically detected for the presence of GUS reporter gene.Some conditions for best Agrobacterium mediated transformation was standardized using Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain EHA101 harboring binary vector Pzy102 containing GUS as reporter gene in kashmiri variety of corn. Numerous factors were compared and optimized for...

The stresses like cold, drought, and high salinity, which all cause dehydration damage to the plant cell, is the most common environmental stresses that influence plant growth and development, limiting productivity in cultivated areas world-wide. The stress genes control expression of many drought, salinity and cold inducible genes and causing tolerance to environmental stresses in many plants. Using a pair of specific primers, dehydrin1 gene, dehydrin2 gene, dehydrin10 gene, putative phosphate transporter gene, choline momooxygenase gene and DREB/CBF1c gene were amplified from different...