Plants are a source of bioactive compounds and specialty chemicals such as ginsenosides; paclitaxel, artemisinin, veregen and nutraceuticals. Biopharmaceuticals are important in human healthcare, and herbal actives are gaining importance all over the world. With natural resources dwindling, in vitro production of secondary compounds on a commercial scale is being more and more required.
The difficulties that are increasingly encountered in procuring ample supply of raw plant material because of drastic decrease in natural resources have prompted the adaptation of in vitro technology for commercial production of substances of medicinal importance. Besides providing an alternative technology to bypass the above difficulties, the plant tissue culture (used in a broad sense to include cell, tissue and organ culture) offers many advantages. In vitro technology also facilitates novel means of conserving the genetic diversity of the germplasm of medicinal plants through cryopreservation, and production of novel compounds through biotransformation, somatic hybridization and selective gene transfer through recombinant DNA technology for enhancing the metabolite production.
Biotechnological production of bioactive phytochemicals of medicinal value covers a broad variety of methods for secondary metabolites production (both pharmaceuticals and cosmeceuticals), compiling state-of-the-art material about the current knowledge of in vitro production for a large number of bioactive phytochemicals.
- Compiles state-of-the-art material about in vitro production for several bioactive phytochemicals
- Incorporates the most recent developments in the field
- Covers a broad variety of secondary metabolites
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978-0-443-21819-4 (9780443218194)
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VOLUME 11. Introduction2. Accumulation of colchicine, an anti-gout molecule in callus cultures of Gloriosa superba3. Factors affecting accumulation of plumbagin from hairy root cultures of Plumbago rosea4. -Radiation mutagenesis and enhancement in the production of plant secondary metabolites5. High-value secondary metabolites from in vitro cultures of St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum L.)6. Phytoecdysteroids from Sesuvium sp.: production and potential applications7. In vitro production of alkaloids from Rauwolfia serpentina 8. Potentially bioactive secondary metabolites from underutilized wild Elaeagnus plant9. Bacosides Neurotropic Molecules production by tissue cultures10. Tropane Alkaloids in Vitro production, current status and perspectives11. In vitro production of Rutin12. Anthraquinones : Production in Plant Cell Culture from medicinal plants13. In vitro production of asiaticoside and its derivatives from Centella and Hydrocotyle.14. Plant suspension cell cultures: A novel bioreactor platform for industrial production of pharmaceutical proteins15. Production of secondary metabolites by Thymus genus16. Nanoparticle mediated elicitation of plant secondary metabolites, in vitro and in-vivo17. Biotechnological methods of accumulation and production of vanillin flavour for food and pharmaceutical importance18. Opportunities and challenges to large-scale production of secondary metabolites in vitro19. Piperine production from in-vitro plant tissue culture methods20. Production of bioactive metabolites in in vitro cultures of saffron (Crocus sativus L.): a review.21. A non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug Boswellic acid from Boswellia serrata22. Cardiotonic glycosides in Digitalis. Nikam TD and Nitnaware KM23. Biosynthesis of Polyphenols and their antioxidant potential24. In vitro production and cheminformatic analysis of the vital compound taraxerol with their active role in living systems: a comprehensive view25: In vitro production of phytochemicals from Bacopa monnieri with their active Principles for pharmacological activities26. Biotechnological routes to enhance the production of the anti-cancer drug Camptothecin: Current state of the artExperimental strategies to enhance in vitro production of plant secondary metabolitesVOLUME 228. In vitro cultures of some Asclepiadaceae members: A source for the production of secondary metabolites29. Secondary metabolites of Brassica species30. In vitro production of therapeutic compounds from Caralluma Species31. In vitro production of secondary metabolites in Cathranthus roseus32. Production of secondary metabolite from Morinda citrifolia (Noni) plant by elicitation methods33. Hepatoprotective lignan production in Phyllanthus 34. Antipsychotic and medicinally important harmala alkaloid production in tissue culture of Tribulus and Peganum 35. Phytochemical prospecting and biological evaluation of leaves, stem and root of in vitro propagation of Libidibia ferrea (Fabaceae)36. Quality of LED light on the callogenesis and somatic embryogenesis of Libidibia ferrea (Fabaceae) as an alternative source for the production of secondary metabolites37. Morphogenic potential of nodal segments of ironwood (Libidibia ferrea (Mart. ex Tul.) L. P. Queiroz var. ferrea) cultivated in vitro aiming at maximizing the biotechnological production of secondary metabolites38. Biotechnological Exploitation of Bioresource for Enhanced Production of Paclitaxel39. In vitro production, medical applications and antimicrobial activity of 1,8 cineole. 1-Evrim40: Rhinacanthins: Sources, Properties and Biotechnological Production41: Stevia rebaudiana - A comprehensive review on in vitro culture studies for phytochemical production42: In vitro propagation of medicinal plants of Ethiopia44. In vitro production of Bioactive phytochemicals in Datura metel45 Phytochemical Constituents and Pharmacological Activities of Dioscorea bulbifera: An endangered medicinal plant in Africa46.
