Medicinal Plant Biotechnology
Published on 26. November 2010
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-1-84593-678-5 (ISBN)
Description
There have been rapid advances in the field of plant biotechnology in recent years, increasing the potential for medical application. Covering the latest advances in the use of plants to produce medicinal drugs and vaccines, this volume examines topics including plant tissue culture, secondary metabolite production, metabolomics and metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, molecular farming and future biotechnological directions, with contributors from key researchers in the field. Medicinal Plant Biotechnology is an essential text for researchers in plant biology and biotechnology, medical sciences and pharmacology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
998 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84593-678-5 (9781845936785)
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Editor
Defence Research and Development Organization, Delhi, India
Contributions
University of Mississippi, USA
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Bayer Crop Science, Canada
Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), India
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA
Amity University Uttar Pradesh (AUUP), India
Content
1: Emerging Trends in Medicinal Plant Biotechnology 2: Medicinal Compounds Produced in Plant Cell Factories 3: Biotechnological Characterization of Populations of Podophyllum hexandrum Royle. 4: Traditional and Biotechnological Strategies for Conservation of Podophyllum hexandrum Royle 5: Microsatellite Markers: Potential and Opportunities in Medicinal Plants 6: In vitro-Propagation of Medicinal Plants for Conservation and Quality Assurance 7: Propagation of elite Cannabis sativa L. for the production of 9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) 8: In Vitro Saponin Production in Plant Cell And Tissue Cultures 9: Podophyllotoxin and Related Lignans: Biotechnological Production by In Vitro Plant Cell Cultures 10: Hairy Root Culture: Copying Nature in New Bioprocesses 11: Genetic Transformation of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don. for Augmenting Secondary Metabolite Production 12: Podophyllum Endophytic Fungi 13: Biotechnology of Vinca major and Vinca minor 14: Analytical Platforms and Databases from Plant Transcriptomics to Metabolomics 15: Docking-based Virtual Screening of Anticancer Drugs 16: Population Structure and Molecular Characterization of Podophyllum hexandrum 17: Plant Virus Vector Systems for the Production and Delivery of Biopharmaceuticals 18: Novel Medicinal Plants for the Production and Delivery of Vaccines 19: Noscapinoids: A New Class of Anti-cancer Drugs Demand Biotechnological Intervention 20: Recent Developments in Chemistry and Biotechnology of Podophyllum 21: Plant-derived Recombinant Griffithsin 22: Camptothecins: SAR, QSAR, and Biotechnology