Objective Agricultural Microbiology at a Glance [Paperback]

Objective AGRICULTURAL MICROBIOLOGY at a Glance is a multiple choice question book specially designed to improve the knowledge of students and to provide them a powerful knowledge and feedback in their progress and future opportunities. Thus, primarily this book can serve as a self-assessment guide for the students who are preparing for competitive examinations specially ASRB-ARS Pre, ICAR-NET. ICAR-SRF, ICAR-JRF etc. And secondly. meant for those who appearing for UG, PG study in agriculture colleges/agriculture institutes/agriculture universities etc. The questions of this book are compiled from standard textbooks on History of Microbiology, Microbial Taxonomy, Morphology and Cytology, Microbial Ecology, Microbial Physiology, Microbial Genetics, Microbial Biotechnology, Food Microbiology, Soil Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Microbiological Techniques with the syllabus of ASRB-ARS Pre, ICAR-NET, ICAR-SRF. ICAR-JRF, SAU's and other competitive examinations. The main objective of this book is to help students to enrich their powerful knowledge of microbiology because it is essential for the development of students in the area of agriculture sciences.  

1.     History of Microbiology

2.     Microbial Taxonomy

3.     Morphology and Cytology

4.     Microbial Ecology

5.     Microbial Physiology

6.     Microbial Genetics

7.     Microbial Biotechnology

8.     Food Microbiology

9.     Soil Microbiology

10.   Environmental Microbiology

11.   Microbiological Techniques

Glossary of Technical Terms

Further Readings 

Deepak Kumar Varma is an agriculture science professional. He was earned M. Sc. (Ag.) in Agricultural Biochemistry in 2011 with First rank and also received a department topper award from Department of Agricultural Biochemistry, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agricultural and Technology, Kanpur (UP). Mr. Verma received DST-INSPIRE Fellowship, a fellowship grant for Ph.D. study by Department of Science & Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and is currently Ph.D. Research Scholar at Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur (WB). During master, his area of specialisation was being Agricultural Biochemistry. Thus, he have built-up a sound background not only in Plant Biochemistry but also in other areas including Plant Physiology, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Plant Pathology Microbiology. His activities and accomplishments include conferences, seminars, workshop, training and also the publication of research articles, books and book's chapter. 

Balaram Mohapatra is a biological science professional. He was completed M.Sc. in Microbiology in 2011 with First rank and also received a department topper award from Department of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar (Odisha). Mr. Mohapatra qualified ICAR NET-2014 and GATE-2012 exam in Agricultural Microbiology and Life Science respectively. He received DST-INSPIRE Fellowship, a fellowship grant for Ph.D. study by Department of Science & Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and is currently working as a Research Scholar at Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur (WB).