Overview
- Focuses on biotechnological interventions in bamboo research and their utilization
- Introduces the biotechnological advances in bamboo research, such as plant tissue culture, molecular marker techniques, different conservation techniques for bamboo germplasm, transcriptomics, etc
- Provides basic and applied information for the academicians, scientist, industrialist and researchers who wants to initiate work in this fascinating area of research
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Yulong Ding has over 35 years of research experience in bamboo. He is a professor at Bamboo Research Institute of Nanjing Forestry University in China and recently appointed as the Director of Bamboo Resource Cultivation Engineering Technology Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Bureau in China. He was a visiting scholar at the University Hamburg, Institute of Wood Biology, Germany, for 2 years. He chaired over 10 projects funded by the Jiangsu provincial government, or Ministry of Science and Technology, or the Ministry of education, China. He holds membership of several academic bodies/societies Chinese bamboo association, the National standard committee of bamboo products and the director of the association committee of bamboo resources and ecology. He published over 200 research articles and 6 book chapters, also edited one book. He has been serving as an editorial board member for several journals.
Dr. Anwar Shahzad has over 25 years of research experience in plant biotechnology and is currently working as a professor in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University in India. He owns several awards like the Bharat Vikas Award, 2018 by Institute of self-reliance, India; excellence in research by 5th academic brilliance awards-17, India, and Marie Curie award 2015. He has successfully guided 11 Ph.D. and completed several research projects funded by the government of India. He holds membership of several academic bodies/societies including the Indian Botanical Society (IBS), the Directorate of Plant Biotechnology (DPB), IASR, Indian Science Congress Associations, and Ibna Sina academy of medieval medicine and Science. He published over 98 research articles, 27 book chapters and edited 3 books. His articles have been cited over 1849 times with a Google h-index of 24. He has been part of several editorial boards of journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biotechnological Advances in Bamboo
Book Subtitle: The “Green Gold” on the Earth
Editors: Zishan Ahmad, Yulong Ding, Anwar Shahzad
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1310-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1309-8Published: 30 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1312-8Published: 31 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1310-4Published: 29 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 481
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Sciences, Biotechnology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology