FIRST ANNUAL REVIEW ISSUE

Editorial

 
N.J. Tonukari, J.K. Ikea, and G. Ude

Biotechnology research

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PLANT AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

Hodeba D. Mignouna, Mathew M. Abang and Robert Asiedu

Harnessing modern biotechnology for tropical tuber crop improvement: Yam (Dioscorea spp.) molecular breeding

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Mathew M. Abang, Stephan Winter, Hodeba D. Mignouna, Kim R. Green, Robert Asiedu

Molecular taxonomic, epidemiological and population genetic approaches to understanding yam anthracnose disease

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Amusa, N. A., Adegbite, A. A, Muhammed S. and Baiyewu R. A.

Yam Diseases and its management in Nigeria

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Leena Tripathi

Genetic engineering for improvement of Musa production in Africa

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Guihua Lu

Engineering Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum Resistance in Oilseed Crops

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F. Consiglio, C. Conicella , L. Monti and D. Carputo

Highlights of meiotic genes in Arabidopsis thaliana

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Yan Zhang and M.A. Rouf Mian

Functional genomics in forage and turf - present status and future prospects

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Mariana OBERTELLO, Mame Oureye SY, Laurent LAPLAZE, Carole SANTI, Sergio SVISTOONOFF, Florence AUGUY, Didier BOGUSZ and Claudine FRANCHE

Actinorhizal nitrogen fixing nodules: infection process, molecular biology and genomics

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Orlando António Quilambo

The vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

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Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

Anthemideae: advances in tissue culture, genetics and transgenic biotechnology

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Robert L. Brown, Zhi-Yuan Chen, Abebe Menkir, and Thomas E. Cleveland

Using biotechnology to enhance host resistance to aflatoxin contamination of corn

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Andrew Kiggundu, Michael Pillay, Altus Viljoen, Clifford Gold, Wilberforce Tushemereirwe, Karl Kunert

Enhancing banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus) resistance by plant genetic modification: A perspective

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P. Fandohan, K. Hell, W.F.O. Marasas, M.J. Wingfield

Infection of maize by Fusarium species and contamination with fumonisin in africa

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Danladi Dada KUTA, Emmanuel KWON-NDUNG, Stephen DACHI, Mark UKWUNGWU and Emmanuel Dada IMOLEHIN

Potential role of biotechnology tools for genetic improvement of “lost crops of Africa”: the case of fonio (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua)

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MELINDA SMALE AND HUGO DE GROOTE

Diagnostic research to enable adoption of transgenic crop varieties by smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

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ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

O.A. Ogunseitan

Biotechnology and industrial ecology: new challenges for a changing global environment

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INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY          

   
Howard R.L., Abotsi E., Jansen van Rensburg E.L. and Howard S.

Lignocellulose biotechnology: issues of bioconversion and enzyme production

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COULIBALY Lacina, GOURENE Germain, AGATHOS N Spiros

Utilization of fungi for biotreatment of raw wastewaters

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FOOD TECHNOLOGY     

Lorraine L. Niba

The relevance of biotechnology in the development of functional foods for improved nutritional and health quality in developing countries

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APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY          

Harriet Okatch and Nelson Torto

Profiling of carbohydrate polymers in biotechnology using microdialysis sampling, high performance anion exchange chromatography with integrated pulsed electrochemical detection/mass spectrometry

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N. S. Reddy, Annapoorna Nimmagadda and K. R. S. Sambasiva Rao

An overview of the microbial a-amylase family

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MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Bennett C. Nwanguma

The human genome project and the future of medical practice

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P. Truc

About Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, the causative agent of the chronic form of Human African Trypanosomiasis: some findings and proposals

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E. Olatunde Farombi

African indigenous plants with chemotherapeutic potentials and biotechnological approach to the production of bioactive prophylactic agents

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A.S. Daba and O.U.Ezeronye

Anti-cancer effect of polysaccharides isolated from higher basidiomycetes mushrooms

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Swamy Krishna Tripurani, N. S. Reddy and K. R. S. Sambasiva Rao

Green revolution vaccines, edible vaccines

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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES

Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

Thin Cell Layer technology in ornamental plant micropropagation and biotechnology

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Sean Davison, Neil Leat and Mongi Benjeddou

Development of molecular tools for honeybee virus research: the South African contribution

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Olubukola O. Babalola

Molecular techniques: An overview of methods for the detection of bacteria

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Tahir Abdoulaye DIOP

In vitro culture of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: advances and future prospects

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Uyoh E. A., Nkang A. E. and Eneobong E.E. 

Biotechnology, genetic conservation and sustainable use of bioresources

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Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam

Web-based bioinformatic resources for protein and nucleic acids sequence alignment

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Call for Papers

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