Prospects in Bioscience: Addressing the Issues

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Fish-Processing Industrial Effluent Characterization and Partitioning of Proteins Using Aqueous Two-Phase System....Pages 1-9
Bioremediation of Zinc Using Bacillus sp. Isolated from Metal-Contaminated Industrial Zone....Pages 11-18
Evaluation of Bryophyte Protein-Based Defense Against Selected Phytophagous Insects....Pages 19-32
A Novel Algorithm for Prediction of Hub Proteins from Primary Structure in Eukaryotic Proteome Using Dipeptide Compositional Skew Information and Amino Acid Sequence Likeness....Pages 33-40
Naïve Bayes-Based Classification for Short Microbial Genes Using Chaos Game Representation....Pages 41-47
PCR-RFLP of 16S rRNA Gene for Identification of Speciation of Meat of Porcine Origin in Processed and Admixed Meat....Pages 49-54
A Novel HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor from Methanolic Extract of Holoptelea integrifolia (Roxb.) Planch....Pages 55-61
Optimisation of Cultural and Nutritional Parameters for the Production of Protease from Newly Isolated Bacterial Strain Bacillus SDR 10....Pages 63-77
Identification of a PPAR Delta Agonist: An In Silico Approach Towards Drug Design for Metabolic Syndrome....Pages 79-87
Preliminary Phytochemical and Antimicrobial Activity of Ethanolic Extract of Pittosporum viridulum Stem Bark....Pages 89-92
Biochemical and Nutritional Evaluation of Monochoria vaginalis Presl.....Pages 93-101
Assessment of Genotypic Variability for Growth, Biophysical Parameters, Yield and Yield-Attributing Characters Under Drought Stress in Cotton....Pages 103-110
Study of Serum Immunoglobulin Levels: Complements C3 and C4 in Vitiligo Patients in Northern India....Pages 111-115
Evaluation of Antimicrobial Potential of an Invasive Weed Amaranthus spinosus L.....Pages 117-123
Evolutionary Genomics of Avian MHC BLB2 Gene by Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis....Pages 125-130
Phytoremediation of Cadmium Using Pteris sp.....Pages 131-139
Seasonal Variation of Spore Density and Root Colonisation of Arbuscular Mycorrhizae in Crop Plants in Relation to Soil Edaphic Factors....Pages 141-149
Computational Studies on Structural Basis of Isoniazid Resistance in Tuberculosis....Pages 151-157
Phylogenetic Analysis of Few Actinobacteria with Potential Antimicrobial Properties, Isolated from the Forest Soils of Western Ghats of Kerala....Pages 159-167
Binding of Apolipoprotein A-1 to Jacalin-Sepharose in a Sugar-Dependent Manner....Pages 169-172
Morphological Basis for Identification of Cup Quality Characteristics in F 1 Hybrids Derived from Coffea arabica L. Crosses....Pages 173-180
Microbial Transformation of Rifamycin by a Bacterial Strain Chryseobacterium Species....Pages 181-190
Isolation, Molecular Characterization and Expression of a New Cry 3a Gene from Native Isolates of Bacillus thuringiensis and Its Toxicity Against Asian Grey Weevil Myllocerus undecimpustulatus undatus Marshall (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)....Pages 191-198
Characteristics of a Newly Isolated Bacterium for Decolorization of Textile Dyes....Pages 199-207
Analysis of the Pathway of Phenol Biodegradation by Alcaligenes sp. d2 ....Pages 209-220
Improvement of Vermicompost: Influence of Feeding Materials and Inoculation of Nitrogen-Fixing and Phosphate-Solubilising Bacteria....Pages 221-228
Development of SSR Markers and Genetic Variability in Physiological Traits in Bambara Groundnut ( Vigna subterranea L. Verdc)....Pages 229-242
Biochemical Characterization of Oxidative Burst During Interaction Between Sesame ( Sesamum indicum L.) in Response to Alternaria sesami ....Pages 243-250
Mass Spectrometric Characterization of a Novel Antimicrobial Peptide Isolated from Clitoria ternatea ....Pages 251-256
A Novel Plate Assay System for Screening of Antimicrobial Agents and β-Lactamase Inhibitors from Natural Sources....Pages 257-261
Diurnal Phototactic Migration of Phytoplankton in Cochin Waters and Its Correlation with Limiting Nutrient Flux....Pages 263-271
Cryo-preservation of Pollen for Hybrid Seed Production in Hot Pepper....Pages 273-276
Evaluation of Pseudomonas sp. VSMKU-4046 for Suppression of Sheath Blight (ShB) of Rice in Detached Leaf Assay....Pages 277-282
Antimicrobial and Immunomodulatory Activities of Jellyfish ( Chrysaora quinquecirrha ) Venom....Pages 283-292
 Diplazium esculentum: A Wild Nutrient-Rich Leafy Vegetable from Western Ghats....Pages 293-301
 Agrobacterium- Mediated Genetic Transformation and Somatic Embryogenesis from Leaf Callus of Hevea brasiliensis : Effect of Silver Nitrate....Pages 303-315
Immunoinformatics Prediction and Structure-Based Modeling of HLA-II Binding Epitopes of Iron Surface Determinant B (IsdB) Protein of Staphylococcus aureus ....Pages 317-323
Damage Assessment of the Gall Mite Aceria pongamiae Keifer 1966 (Acari: Eriophyidae) on Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre....Pages 325-333
 Streptomyces sp.VSMGT1014-Mediated Antifungal Activity Against Fungal Plant Pathogens....Pages 335-341
Taxonomic Significance of Foliar Micromorphology and Their Systematic Relevance in the Genus Solanum (Solanaceae)....Pages 343-349
Investigation of Functional Microbial Diversity and Related Abiotic Factors in Coastal and Desert Ecosystem of Gujarat....Pages 351-362
Experimental and Theoretical Investigations on the Anti-oomycetous Activity of Paromomycin Targeted Against Pythium Tubulin....Pages 363-372
Prenatal Genetic Studies on Intrauterine Growth Retardation....Pages 373-381
Performance of West African Dwarf Sheep Fed with Selected Tropical Roughage Sources: Rumen Microbial Analysis and Nutrient Utilization....Pages 383-387
Reproductive Toxicity of Anamirta cocculus (L.) Wight and Arn and Sphagneticola trilobata (L.) Pruski Extracts on Culex pipiens Linn. (Diptera: Culicidae)....Pages 389-392
Epidemiological Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Isolated from Kerala Using Phage Typing....Pages 393-397
Hypolipidemic Effect of Methanol Fraction of Acorus calamus Linn. in Diet-Induced Obese Rats....Pages 399-404
Biotyping and Phage Typing of Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi Isolates from Kerala, South India....Pages 405-410
Lymphocyte Teamwork in Tumor Rejection....Pages 411-413
Biosorption of Nickel (II) from Aqueous Solution Using Bacillus laterosporus ....Pages 415-418
Back Matter....Pages 419-430