BookSonia Malik, editor.
Summary: Natural compounds obtained from plants represent a tremendous global market due to their use as food additives, cosmetics, in agriculture and in pharmaceuticals. This book provides up-to-date information on various strategies and methods for producing compounds of interest. Leading researchers discuss the latest advances in environmentally friendly natural compound production from plants, making the book a valuable resource for biotechnologists, pharmacists, food technologists and researchers working in the medical and healthcare industries.
Contents:
1. Secondary Metabolite Production in Plant Cell Culture: A New Epigenetic Frontier
2. Plant Cell Biofactories as in vitro production platforms of the anti-cancer drug Camptothecin
3. Not One for All: The Interwoven Relationship Between Morphophysiology and Secondary Metabolite Production in Plant Cell Cultures
4. Anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins as Anti-cancer agents
5. Duckweeds for the production of therapeutic proteins
6. Essential oils from plants: Industrial applications and Biotechnological production
7. Biotechnological production of antistress compounds: Current status and future prospects
8. Elicitors as a biotechnological tool for in vitro production of bioactive phenolic compounds
9. Immobilization and Application of Industrial Enzymes on Plant Based New Generation Polymers
10. Recent advances towards development plant cell culture process for sustainable production of lignans and its health benefits
11. Physiology of camptothecin synthesis in plants and root organ cultures of Ophiorrhiza mungos L. and its production in root fermenters
12. In vitro culture of Haloxylon recurvum and Haloxylon salicornicum: valuable source of food additives, pharmaceutical and nutritional components from extreme arid zone.