India has emerged as a major player in the horticulture sector. Today, India is second largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world. However, in order to produce 360 mt of horticultural produce from current level of 150 mt by 2020 requires careful planning and application of newer tools such as biotechnology. Many important fruit crops such as mango, papaya, litchi, guava, aonla, bael and many underutilized fruit crops are being grown in subtropical parts of India. However, the production of these crops is not up to the mark. Lack of genuine planting material, lack of characterization and documentation of germplasm of important crops, lack of suitable methods for controlling major pest diseases and post harvest losses of fruits are some of the bottlenecks in expansion of these fruit crops. Biotechnology can pave the way for molecular characterization of important fruit germplasm and molecular assisted breeding, mass multiplication of elite fruit varieties through micropropagation and development of transgenic crops resistant to biotic and abiotic stresses.

Transgenic Fruit Crops

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Ceramic technologies developments have contributed heavily to the development of implantable electronic devices. Biocompatibility and resistance to wear have produced ceramic materials perfect for a range of medical implant applications, from artificial joints to implantable electronic sensors, stimulators and drug delivery devices. Alumina and zirconia, amongst other ceramics, have been successful in holding up to the harsh environment of the human body.

Industry for Medical Ceramics material types analyzed in this study includes Aluminum Oxide, Zirconia, Zirconia Alumina and Others. The report also includes the industry analysis for end-use application places medical ceramics – Dental, Orthopedic, Implantable Electronic Devices, Surgical &amp Diagnostic Instruments and Others. The report analyses the global market place in terms of USD Million. The global Medical Ceramics marketplace for 2011 is estimated at US.four billion and is projected to improve at a CAGR of three.five% (2007-2017) to reach US.1 billion by 2017.

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Biotech Industries and Bioinformatics:

There is always been a problem in handling growing business demands. Especially in Life science companies like Bio-Technology and Pharmaceutical companies. These companies involve in finding new medical therapies, development and production of drugs to use as medication in curing diseases. Their research assignments generally produce enormous amount of data. It causes troubles in Data Conversion, storage and integration. Life science informatics or bioinformatics can be simply explained as gathering, managing and processing these pieces of generated biological information. It plays a crucial role in the development of pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Bioinformatics – Challenges and Solution:

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Biotechnologists are typically in fantastic demand in the sub disciplines of biotechnology. These disciplines include red biotechnology, the application of biotechnology strategies to medicine, green biotechnology, the application of these strategies to agriculture, white biotechnology, which applies biotechnology specifically to industrial processes and blue biotechnology, which brings biotechnology to the marine planet. 

In current times, biotechnology as a subject has grown rapidly. And as far as employment is concerned, it has turn out to be the second fastest growing sector right after multi-media.

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