Modern Approaches in Biology

MODERN APPROACHES IN BIOLOGY

Editors

Madhushri Das Datta

&

Dr. Bidyut Kumar Jana

Department of Botany

Hiralal Mazumder Memorial College for Women, Dakshineswar,

Kolkata-700035, West Bengal, India.

Published by

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing GmbH &Co. KGHeinrich-

Bocking-Str. 6-866121, Saarbrucken, Germany

Modern Approaches in Biology

First Edition: 2016

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Dedicated to

All the Students of Life Sciences

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Foreword

The present book would be a mile stone to focus some fundamental and applied avenues in

biological sciences. In broad spectrum, it covers a significance contribution deciphering the life

process, both on structural, functional, systematic as well as evolutionary point of view. The

compilation of the papers by the editors is a nice peace of collection, covering the biological

science. The data on experiment reflects the hands on session, documentation that might be help ful

for the new comer experimenters. The review articles are well to do in updating the relevant

information to constract the solidity of the subject as a whole from the literature point of view and

even for its textual relevents, the book entitled “Modern approaches in Biology” would be no less in

adding information of biological sciences on proper distribution, evalution and criticism would be

more cementing if their remains any lacuna.

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Preface

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time

to understand more, so that we may fear less.” �Marie Curie

‘Modern approaches in Biology’ is a significant book related to modern life. This book has been

written to meet the requirement of students of life sciences. In this project, the editors have selected

10 articles in different disciplines of life sciences. The articles are covering wide area of biology

related to everyday life.

The main objective of this book is: to identify different uses of plants, animals and their products

for the well being of human species, to show what are the threats to those species and how to

conserve them.

A sincere attempt has been made to make the book appealing and valuable.

We readily acknowledge our indebtedness to our Teacher Prof. Sobhan Kumar Mukherjee,

Professor, Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, for his dedication, criticism, guidance and

honest efforts which supported us to complete the present work.

We are grateful to Prof. Chandan Sengupta, Professor, Microbiology and Virology Section,

Department of Botany, University of Kalyani for writing the foreword of this book.

We give our most sincere thanks to Prof. Sankar Narayan Sinha and Dr. Malay Kumar Adak for

their constant encouragement and valuable suggestions.

We extend our thanks to the other contributors: Dr. Tinku Ghosh, Smt. Munmun Kundu, Smt.

Ananya Choudhury, Sri. Subhankar Bera, Smt. Karabi Biswas, Dr. Dipak Paul, Smt. Aditi Saha and

Sri. Pritam Esh.

We express our deep sense of gratitude to Dr. Soma Ghosh, Principal, Hiralal Mazumder Memorial

College for Women, Dakshineswar, Kolkata, for her cooperation.

A special thanks to our families for encouraging at every stage.

Finally, we want to express our deep appreciation to LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing,

Germany for helping us in printing the book with ISBN.

Lastly, we hope this edited book will be helpful to the students, researchers, teachers, experts and in

general science lovers.

Madhushri Das Datta

Dr. Bidyut Kumar Jana

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CONTENTS

Foreword iv

Preface v

Contributors viii

Diversity Conservation and Utilisation of Some Threatened Indigenous

Rice Varieties Cultivated in Assam and Odisha, India

Munmun Kundu

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Application of insect sex pheromones in insect pest management

Ananya Choudhury8

Composition of 3-Subtribes of the Tribe Justiceae(Acanthaceae)

Sensu Benth. & Hook.f. in West Bengal

Tinku Ghosh and Sobhan Kumar Mukherjee

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Halophytic species the model for salt stress and its response

Subhankar Bera and Malay Kumar Adak19

Molecular Markers and Its Applications in Plant Breeding: A Concise

Review

Sankar Narayan Sinha, Karabi Biswas and Dipak Paul

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Uses of two commonly available unique plants- Centella asiatica L.

and Ocimum tenuiflorum L. for human health care

Bidyut Kumar Jana and Sobhan Kumar Mukherjee

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Lichens as Bioindicators and Bioremediators

Aditi Saha65

Viviparous seed germination of Trapa bispinosa Roxb. in natural in-

vivo condition

Pritam Esh and Sobhan Kr. Mukherjee

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Study of phytoremediation benefits of indoor plants

Munmun Kundu77

A Review of NaCl Stress on Biochemical Response of Rice Seedling

Ritwik Acharya and Gourab Paul83

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CONTRIBUTORS

1. Munmun Kundu Department of Botany, Hiralal Mazumder

Memorial College for Women, Dakshineswar,

Kolkata-700035

2. Ananya Choudhury Department of Zoology, Hiralal Mazumder


Kolkata-700035

3. Tinku Ghosh Taxonomy and Biosystematics Laboratory,

Department of Botany, University of Kalyani,

Kalyani, Nadia, India

4. Sobhan Kumar Mukherjee Taxonomy and Biosystematics Laboratory,

Department of Botany, University of Kalyani,


5. Subhankar Bera Plant Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular

Biology Laboratory, Department of Botany,

University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, India

6. Malay Kumar Adak Plant Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular

Biology Laboratory, Department of Botany,

University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, India

7. Sankar Narayan Sinha Department of Botany, University of Kalyani,

Kalyani 741235, West Bengal, India

8. Karabi Biswas Department of Botany, University of Kalyani,


9. Dipak Paul Department of Botany, University of Kalyani,


10. Aditi Saha Department of Botany, Hiralal Mazumder


Kolkata-700035

11. Pritam Esh Taxonomy and Biosystematics Laboratory,

Department of Botany, University of Kalyani


12 Ritwik Acharya Department of Botany, Hiralal Mazumder


Kolkata-700035

13 Gourab Paul Department of Biochemistry,University of

Calcutta, Kolkata

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