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Introduction and History of Insect Biotechnology

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Introduction to Insect Biotechnology

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Insects are the most successful organisms on earth in terms of their diversity and adaptability. Insect biotechnology or yellow biotechnology using these insect resources is an emerging area for biotechnology along with several claims. Insect resources have long been used to make food or functional food, feed different animals and different nutritive shakes, cosmetics as well as medicine and industrial ingredients. The insect cell lines have been used to express recombinant proteins that were thought to be very difficult to functional expression for public purposes. Only interdisciplinary research will guarantee the success story for insect biotechnology in the current situation in near future. Insects as a bioresource for new products with applications in medicine, agriculture and industry in near future. This chapter will definitely bring some basic knowledge of insect biotechnology related to their applied aspects from agriculture to modern health problems and the possible role of insect biotechnology in the development of future biotechnology using this bioresource.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

    Dhiraj Kumar

  2. Department of Zoology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India

    Shubham Singh

  3. NGS Facility, Unit for Human Genetics, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, Karnataka, India

    Rajesh R. Kundapur

  4. School of Studies in Zoology, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India

    Divya Gupta & Sangeeta Shukla

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Kumar, D., Singh, S., Kundapur, R.R., Gupta, D., Shukla, S. (2023). Introduction and History of Insect Biotechnology. In: Kumar, D., Shukla, S. (eds) Introduction to Insect Biotechnology. Learning Materials in Biosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26776-5_1

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