The Present title Biotechnology of Defence is an inexpensive and readable book offering a great introduction to this incredible useful biotechniques and provides a glimpse of the astonishing diversity of application of biotechnology. All the chapters are exciting. This text is extremely successful in conveying both the theoretical and the applied aspects of biotechnology. It is hoped that is will be valuable to both the neotype and the experienced scientists.
Efforts have also been made to keep the experimental bias throughout the text. Wherever necessary historical developments have been reconstructed to put the subject in proper orientation.
About Author :
Dr. C.D. Swarna Latha did her schooling from the Board of Secondary Education in 1978 and intermediate in 1980. She passed B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Department of Zoology, S.V. University, Tirupati in years 1983 and 1986 respectively. She obtained doctorate degree in 1994 from the same university. She also awailed J.R.F. (ICMR) 1989-1991, SRF (ICMR) 1991 to 1993 and Research Associate (CISR) 1994-1996. She has 13 years of Research Experience and 10 years of Teaching Experience. She served S.P.W. Degree College, S.V. Arts College and S.G.S. Arts College and taught under-graduate students.
Dr. Digumarti Bhaskara Rao (9-6-1957), M.Sc., M.A., M.A., M.Ed., Ph.d.,a teacher educator, has had his higher education from Andhra, Bhopal, Nagarjuna and Osmania Universities. He is the R.V.R. College of Education, Guntur-522 006, Andhra Pradesh, India. br_digumarti@rediffmail.com.
He is author, co-author and editor of about 250 books that include five Encyclopaedias and has published more than 300 papers and articles on science and education in India and abroad.
Contents :
Introduction
Organs Involved in Defence
Lymphocytes
How Cells Protect the Body
Self Defence
Protection from Infectious Diseases
Culture of Defensive Protein
Protective Behaviour in Minute Organisms
Defensive Behaviour in Plants
Variation in Defensive Receptors
Laboratory Methods of Defence
Index