Molecular Genetics and Genomics Tools in Biodiversity Conservation

Chapter 1.Phylogenetics and its application in biodiversity conservation.- Chapter 2.Phylogenetics in the Context of Tree Diversity and Conservation .- Chapter 3.Conservation metagenomics: Understanding microbiomes for biodiversity sustenance and conservation .- Chapter 4.Overview of omics-assisted techniques for biodiversity conservation .- Chapter 5. Genetic consequences of fragmentation in tropical forests: Novel approaches to assess and monitor critically endangered species .- Chapter 6.Molecular markers in assessing genetic clonal fidelity for in vitro propagated endangered medicinal plants .- Chapter 7.Strategies, opportunities and challenges in crop genetic diversity conservation: a plant breeder's perspective .- Chapter 8.Soil Microbial Metagenomics in Agroforestry System: Tools and Techniques .- Chapter 9.Phylogenetic and population genetic studies of Citrus genetic resources in northeast India: a review .- Chapter 10.Next-Generation Amplicon Sequencing: a cost-effective method for exploring microbial biodiversity .- Chapter 11.Molecular characterization and phylogeny of Clerodendrum species occurring in North Eastern Region of India by Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 of Nuclear DNA .- Chapter 12.Population genetic diversity of Dysoxylum binectariferum, an economically important tree species of the Western Ghats, India .- Chapter 13.Gut metagenomics of Pati hanh (Anas platyrhynchosdomesticus) .- Chapter 14.Morphological and molecular characterization of genome types in wild and cultivated bananas (Musa species) of two states in North Eastern India .- Chapter 15.Pollen digital image mapping and its symmetrical correlation using MATLAB.- Chapter 16.Role of Next-generation sequencing (NGS) in understanding the Microbial Diversity.

Ashwani Kumar is presently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (Central University), Sagar, India (since 2013). Plant-microbe interactions, metagenomics, lignocellulosic biofuels, and bioremediation are among his scientific interests. He earned his Ph.D. in bioenergy from IIT Delhi and served as a postdoctoral scholar (2011-2013) at Durban University of Technology and Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He earned numerous awards, including the GSEP Fellowship at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada (2009-2010), the Claude Leon Fellowship (2012-2014), and the NRF Fellowship (2012-2014) at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. In 2019, he was awarded the GIAN Program, MHRD, Government of India, Shastri Indo-Canada Mobility Program Fellowship at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He is a life member of the BRSI, the NIE, and the ISEB in India, and he was recently chosen as a Fellow of the International Society of Environmental Botanists and the National Institute of Ecology.Baharul Choudhury is a trained biologist with several years of research experience in ecology, evolution, conservation biology, population genetics and genomics. He obtained Ph.D. from Assam University, Silchar (India), and moved to Canada to pursue a second Ph.D. at Concordia University. Baharul was able to secure several fellowships including the prestigious FRQNT Merit Scholarship from Quebec Government. Following that, Baharul started working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University, to study the rewiring in gene regulatory mechanism in Ascomycetes fungi during evolution. He then moved to the University of Toronto for another Postdoctoral Fellowship and studied genomic evolution sex chromosomes in the plant genus Rumex. Baharul recently started a new instructor position at Queen's University, Canada and active in teaching and learning, especially biology curriculum development. He is a lifemember of the