The book “Instrumentations Manual in Biology” has been designed to cater to the needs of a wide range of students and researchers in diversified fields of life sciences: botany, zoology, biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, and biomedical sciences. It introduces different aspects of practical biology starting from sterilization to basic microscopy; conventional herbarium techniques to creation of digital herbariums; methods of electrophoresis and separation; bioinformatics; primer designing and PCR amplification. The book is unique in its broad subject coverage and includes fundamental techniques as well as protocols for handling of modern molecular and proteomic tools that are the basis for state-of-the-art research. The book will be handy and helpful to the students, research scholars and all others associated with Research and Development Sectors who are keen to know about instrumentation and are really looking forward to narrowing down the wide gap between theoretical knowledge and practical handling and applications.

Foreword / Preface / Overview of Instrumentation in Biology / Diversity in Actinobacteria Genomes – A Review / Immunotechniques / Techniques for Preservation and Staining of Biological Material with special reference to Pteridophytes / Chromatography Coupled with Spectrophotometry for Plant Metabolites Identification and Enzyme Assay / Aseptic Techniques for Establishment of in vitro Culture / Herbarium Techniques / Methods of Sterilization / Microtomy.

Postgraduate Students, Professionals and Researchers