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Dr. P. Udaya Sri Department of Biotechnology, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Dr. Awadesh Kumar Pal Department of Crop Physiology, Bihar Agricultural University, Bihar, India
From the Editor's Desk Dear Readers, We would like to present, with great pleasure, the Second Volume of a new scholarly journal, International Journal of Plant Biotechnology. This journal is part of the Applied Sciences, and is devoted to the scope of present Biotechnology issues, from theoretical aspects to application-dependent studies and the validation of emerging technologies. This new journal was planned and established to represent the growing needs of Plant Biotechnology as an emerging and increasingly vital field, now widely recognized as an integral part of scientific and technical investigations. Its mission is to become a voice of the Biotechnological Science community, addressing researchers and practitioners in this area. The core vision of International journal of Plant Biotechnology in JournalsPub is to propagate novel awareness and know-how for the profit of mankind ranging from the academic and professional research societies to industry practitioners in a range of topics in Plant Biotechnology in general. JournalsPub acts as a pathfinder for the scientific community to published their papers at excellently, well-time & successfully. International Journal of Plant Biotechnology focuses on original high-quality research in the realm of Transgenic plants, Plant production science, Plant physiology, Modern molecular biology, Plant tissue culture, Molecular breeding, Manipulation of plants, Recombinant DNA technology The Journal is intended as a forum for practitioners and researchers to share the techniques of Plant Biotechnology and solutions in the area. Many scientists and researchers have contributed to the creation and the success of the Plant Biotechnology community. We are very thankful to everybody within that community who supported the idea of creating an innovative platform. We are certain that this issue will be followed by many others, reporting new developments in the field of Plant Biotechnology. This issue would not have been possible without the great support of the Editorial Board members, and we would like to express our sincere thanks to all of them. We would also like to express our gratitude to the editorial staff of JournalsPub, who supported us at every stage of the project. It is our hope that this fine collection of articles will be a valuable resource for Plant Biotechnology readers and will stimulate further research into the vibrant area of Plant Biotechnology. Puneet Mehrotra Managing Director
Contents 1. Evaluation of Floral Diversity of BSI Dehradun and Its Ecological Assessment M.S. Bhandari, G.S. Panwar
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2. Antagonistic Activity of Fungi and Bacterium against Red Rot Disease of Saccharum officinarum: An Approach for Biocontrol S.K. Chaurasia, G.P. Rao
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3. Methods of Crop Breeding in Plants: A Review Nupur Mathur
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4. Photosynthesis at High Altitude: A Case Study in Trans Himalayan Region S. Allen, S. Kapoor, M.K. Patel, V. Kumar, T. Stobdan, O.P. Chaurasia, B. Kumar
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5. Response of Plants to Drought Stress: A Review Nupur Mathur
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Evaluation of Floral Diversity of BSI Dehradun and Its Ecological Assessment 1
M.S. Bhandari1*, G.S. Panwar2
Division of Genetics and Tree Propagation, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India 2 Botanical Survey of India, Northern Centre, Dehradun, India
ABSTRACT The association of plants and animals with the environment and interaction within and among themselves constitutes biodiversity. The present requirement is to save and conserve our biodiversity with sustainable management of our resources such as land, water, air, forest, fossil fuels and many others. The present research work explains the true meaning of biodiversity along with sustainable management of biodiversity for betterment of ecological assessment and biogeochemical cycles of the nature. The ecological assessment and its evaluation were carried out in the BSI Dehradun forest regions during the year 2013 in premonsoon and post-monsoon season. The important tree species inhabiting the area were Grevillea robusta, Litsea monopetala, Grewia optiva, Phyllanthus emblica, Morus alba, Firmiana colorata, Bauhinia semla, Ficus elastic, Ginkgo biloba and Acer oblongum. Highest frequency (55.56), density (2.11) and basal cover area was recorded for Grewia optiva (4.2m2). Highest IVI was calculated for Grewia optiva (57.96) followed by Morus alba (35.89), Prunus cerasoides (25.87) and Pinus roxburghii (25.65). Simpson’s Index of biodiversity in the particular area was 0.912, representing presence of very high floral diversity. Keywords: biodiversity, ecological assessment, floral diversity, Simpson’s index
INTRODUCTION The ecological studies are generally focused on trees and larger plants and could be more readily discriminated using technology like remote sensing and satellite imaginary. The areas where few dominant species, such as temperate forests or mangroves, hyperspatial data have been used to identify individual trees and delineate tree canopies at the species level.[1–3] The biodiversity following the species number and species diversity that approaches to the level of tens, hundreds or thousands; as is the case of tropics, where species hierarchy, individual numbers and habitat heterogeneity makes the biodiversity assessment more challenging, particularly so when done IJPB (2016) 1-13 © JournalsPub 2016. All Rights Reserved
from the space.[4] The evaluation of these databases for floral diversity study in the tropics and subtropical climatic condition would therefore remain a significant challenge and has not been sufficiently explored so far. This is especially ironical considering that tropical habitats concentrated world’s largest species diversity.[4–6] The developmental activity leads to rapid degradation of subtropical and tropical forest and declines its diversity across the world. There is an utmost requirement to identify the hotspots of biodiversity, map the distribution of floral diversity across
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Antagonistic Activity of Fungi and Bacterium against Red Rot Disease of Saccharum officinarum: An Approach for Biocontrol 1
S.K. Chaurasia1*, G.P. Rao2
Vinayaka Mission’s University, Salem, TN, India Sugarcane Research Station, Kunraghat, Gorakhpur, UP, India
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ABSTRACT The Two species of fungus Trichoderma harzianum and Aspergillus flavus and one species of bacterium viz. Bacillus subtilis were tested for antagonistic activity in vitro against Colletotrichum falcatum, pathogen of red rot disease of sugarcane. Two Saccharum officinarum cultivars viz. CoS 98231 and CoLK 8102 in pot and field experiments, by a dual culture technique. It was found that isolates of fungal and bacterial inhibited the mycelial growth of C. falcatum, overgrew C. falcatum colonies and antagonized mycelial growth. In contrast, when the two varieties were tested separately in different field locations, the sets treated with A. flavus in combination with a spray or soil application of T. harzianum had the lowest incidence of red rot in all locations, e.g. 3.1% and 3.4% incidence for CoS 98231 in one location and they had a similar response to the chemical control. These results suggest the applicability of plant-based extracts for the suppression of red rot disease of sugarcane in the field as an environment-friendly tool in combination with antagonists. Keywords: antagonistic bacteria, dual culture technique, sett treatment
INTRODUCTION Saccharum officinarum (Sugarcane) is an important cash crop cultivated in tropical and sub- tropical regions of the world. It is mainly valuable because of its ability to store high concentrations of sucrose or sugar in the stem. It is used for the production of ethanol, which is an important renewable biofuel source (Menossi et al., 2008 and Da Costa et al., 2001). Sugarcane is cultivated in most of the states of India with total area coverage of 4.2 million hectare (M ha). Sugarcane is the most important secondary agro industrial crop in India, next only to cotton (Jayashree, 2010). About hundred diseases of sugarcane have been reported from different parts of the world (Rott et al., 2010). Red rot is the most common disease of sugarcane, caused by the fungus C. falcatum Went. It causes severe loss to
yield and quality of the susceptible cultivars in the Indian subcontinent (Satyavir, 2003 and Duttamajumder, 2008). It can reduce sugarcane weight by up to 29% and loss in sugar recovery by 31% (Hussnain and Afghan, 2006 Red rot pathogen produce invertase enzyme that hydrolyzed the stored sucrose by breaking sucrose molecule into its components namely glucose and fructose. As the result the quantity of molasses increases (Sehtiya, 1993). It is aptly called the “Cancer” of sugarcane (Khan et al., 2011). So, it is very necessary to control the disease of such important crop. Many fungicides have been tried by various researchers. But using chemical there is always environmental concerns. So,
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Methods of Crop Breeding in Plants: A Review Nupur Mathur
Department of Biotechnology, Lachoo Memorial College of Science and Technology, Jodhpur, India
SELF POLLINATED CROPS Mass Selection In mass selection, seeds are gathered from (as a rule a couple of dozen to a couple of hundred) desirable appearing individuals in a populace, and the cutting edge is sown from the supply of blended seed. This technique, some of the time alluded to as phenotypic selection, depends on how every individual looks. Mass selection has been used widely to improve old “land” varieties that have been passed down starting with one generation of agriculturists then onto the next over long stretches. An alternative approach that has doubtlessly been rehearsed for a huge number of years is just to wipe out undesirable sorts by destroying them in the field. The outcomes are comparable whether unrivaled plants are spared or substandard plants are killed: seeds of the better plants turn into the planting stock for the following season [1]. A present day refinement of mass selection is to reap the best plants independently and to develop their progenies. The poorer descendants are demolished and the seeds of the rest of reaped. It ought to be noticed that selection is presently construct not exclusively with respect to the presence of the parent plants additionally on the appearance and execution of their progeny. Offspring determination is typically more powerful than phenotypic selection when managing quantitative characters of low heritability. It ought to be noted, in any case, that descendants
testing requires an additional generation; subsequently pick up per cycle of selection must be twofold that of basic phenotypic determination to accomplish a similar rate of pick up per unit time. Mass selection, with or without offspring test, is maybe the most straightforward and slightest costly of plant-reproducing techniques. It finds wide use in the breeding of certain rummage species, which are not sufficiently critical financially to legitimize more definite detailed attention. Pure Line Selection Pure line Selection by and large includes three more or less distinct steps: 1. Various prevalent showing up plants are chosen from a genetically variable populace. 2. Progenies of the individual plant determinations are developed and assessed by basic perception, every now and again over a time of quite a while. 3. When selection can never again be mentioned on the premise of objective fact alone, broad trials are embraced, including cautious estimations to figure out if the rest of the selections are unrivaled in yielding capacity and different parts of execution. Any progeny better than a current assortment is then discharged as another "pure line" assortment [2]. A significant part of the accomplishment of this technique amid the mid-1900s relied on upon the presence of genetically variable
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Photosynthesis at High Altitude: A Case Study in Trans Himalayan Region S. Allen, S. Kapoor, M.K. Patel, V. Kumar, T. Stobdan, O.P. Chaurasia*, B. Kumar
Department of Plant Biotechnology, Defense Institute of High Altitude Research DRDO Chandigarh, India
ABSTRACT Photosynthesis is the basis of life on earth that converts light energy into chemical energy and is the primary component of crop yield. Significant increase in crop yield by enhancing photosynthesis can answer to global food security. With the increase in population size and limited land availability, efforts have been made to grow crops in tough terrains like high altitude areas. As one ascends a mountain, environmental conditions such as heavy UV influx, arid landscape and long winter season can result in various physiological, biochemical and molecular alterations in plants which may affect photosynthesis. In the present review, we focused on critical biological process in plants i.e. photosynthesis with regard to high altitude areas. We also reviewed the role of abiotic factors which play a key role in regulating photosynthesis at altitudinal gradient. Ladakh, often refereed as cold desert due to its high altitude and cold arid climate, is a region where a limited patch of land is available for agriculture due to tough terrain. Over centuries, farmers in Ladakh have evolved self-sustained farming systems notwithstanding scarce resources, amidst a climatically challenging environment. In Leh-Ladakh region, only five months (May to September) are available for farming while the rest of the year is extreme cold and not conducive for crop cultivation snow covered (October to March).As a result, almost no agricultural practices take place during winter season and people are dependent on stored food crops. Army troops are supplied with vegetables and fruits from Chandigarh by Air route which is quite expensive. Earlier, to enhance the yield per hectare of agricultural crops with increasing demand was possible through breeding programs and farming practice but now crops yields are reaching a plateau. One fundamental component of plant productivity that has not been used to select for increased yield is photosynthesis. Defence Institute of High Altitude Research (DIHAR) is one of the laboratories of Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) New Delhi located at Leh, at an altitude of 3500 amsl. It was established in 1962 and is a pioneer organization which mainly focuses on cold arid agro-animal technology. With the help of updated R&D technologies and novel inputs in cold arid agro animal technologies, our mission is to enhance the availability of fresh food for troops in Ladakh. In order to enhance the productivity at high altitude, laboratory and field research is targeted to increase yield potential in agricultural crops. Recent studies have shown that increase in crop yield can be achieved with enhanced photosynthesis. With this objective in mind, Defence Institute of high Altitude Research (DIHAR) situated in Leh– Ladakh aims to enhance the productivity at high altitude, and is targeted to increase yield potential in agricultural crops. Over the century, grain yield has almost doubled yet there is no significant change in the rate of photosynthesis per unit leaf area. In the present study, we reviewed different physiological factors which change as altitude increases and their effect on photosynthesis and subsequently on crop productivity. Keywords: high altitude, photosynthesis, potential, productivity, transhimalayan
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Response of Plants to Drought Stress: A Review Nupur Mathur
Department of Biotechnology, Lachoo Memorial College of Science and Technology, Jodhpur, India
BACKGROUND Stress tolerance has long been fascinated plant biologists as a challenge to understand the mechanism of plant survival under biotic and abiotic stress conditions. Exposure to abiotic stresses such as high salinity, drought, extreme light and temperature of plants results in worldwide major loss in crop productivity [1]. The main cause of crop loss worldwide is abiotic stresses, reducing average yield for most major crop plants by more than 50% [2, 3]. The complexity in research efforts on drought tolerance was introduced mainly because of dichotomy of survival and productivity, adaptation, acclimation, inducement, enhancement and the levels of investigation like community, canopy, and organ, cellular and molecular [4, 5]. Water is a vital resource for plant growth and survival and is often limiting in arid regions. Plants have to adjust their water balance and metabolism in response to the challenging environment of drought. At cellular level, water relation parameters [6, 7], osmotically active metabolites [8] and antioxidants [9] have proved important to water balancing under varying environmental conditions.
High salinity, water shortage and temperature stresses are the real requirements that point of confinement horticultural creation. Plants react to these conditions with a variety of biochemical and physiological adjustments, which include the capacity of many anxiety related qualities. Subsequently, any endeavor to enhance the anxiety resilience
requires a superior comprehension of physiological, biochemical and sub-atomic occasions [10]. The stress, especially drought, causes a decrease in pressure potential. Consequently the concentration of cell solutes enhances due to water loss and they are actively accumulated to keep the cytoplasm osmotically balanced. Thus osmotic adjustment is a significant component of abiotic stress tolerance in plants and contributes to pressure potential [11, 12]. The common solutes employed in osmotic adjustment include various quaternary amines, amino acids, and sugars. Upgraded amassing of these osmolytes encourages the maintenance of water in the cytoplasm and the security of layers, protein edifices, and cell structure. Moreover, plant cells contain cancer prevention agent catalyst framework, for example, peroxidases and superoxide dismutases, which search responsive oxygen intermediates and give assurance against oxidative anxiety [13, 14]. At molecular level, an assortment of genes with diverse functions are induced or repressed by these stresses [15]. The identification and characterization of genes involved in osmotic and ionic stress tolerance have opened the possibility of engineering crop plants with increased drought/salt tolerance. The expression of genes involved in the biosynthesis of compatible solutes such as mannitol [16], proline [17], glycine-betaine [18], fructans [19] and glyoxalases increased the hyperosmotic tolerance of the plant cell. The membranes are reported to damage rapidly with increasing water stress This
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