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Biotechnology in the Diagnosis and Management of Infectious Diseases

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Current Trends in Plant Disease Diagnostics and Management Practices

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World’s population is continuing to rise, the major target of modern agriculture has to a sustainable increase in yield that keeps pace with the increasing number of mouths to feed. This may be achieved by several approaches, not least by a significant reduction in pre and post harvest losses due to disease. In biotechnology different techniques such as proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolic are now proved to be useful in diagnosis of diseases. Biotechnological procedures can also be used to determine the type and sources of host resistance. In Biotechnology the multiplication and manipulation of genes in any living organisms occurs through novel techniques such as genetic engineering in order to produce new organisms or products that can be used in variety of ways. Conventional plant breeding methods used to developed resistant cultivars for various diseases but it is time consuming process while breeding through the markers i.e. marker assisted breeding may greatly increase the efficiency and effectiveness in plant breeding compared to conventional breeding. The identification of diseases in plant is required to design effective management strategies. Form the last few year Biotechnology offers radical alternatives to detect and enumerate the different diseases. The purpose of this chapter is to provide general information for the diseases diagnosis and its management of infectious diseases thorough biotechnology.

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  1. Department of Biotechnology, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Amit Kumar & Gyanika Shukla

  2. Department of Botany, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Raj Singh & Anju Rani

  3. Department of Zoology, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

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  4. Department of Agriculture Biotechnology, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Kumar, A., Sengar, R.S., Singh, R., Rani, A., Girdharwal, V., Shukla, G. (2016). Biotechnology in the Diagnosis and Management of Infectious Diseases. In: Kumar, P., Gupta, V., Tiwari, A., Kamle, M. (eds) Current Trends in Plant Disease Diagnostics and Management Practices. Fungal Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27312-9_15

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