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.
Chapter
2. Medicinal Compounds Produced in Plant Cell Factories
SECTION II: Natural Resource Management (Biodiversity Conservation and Genetic Diversity Screening)
3. Biotechnological Characterization of Different Populations of an Endangered Medicinal Herb–Podophyllum hexandrum Royle
4. Traditional and Biotechnological Strategies for Conservation of Podophyllum hexandrum Royle–A Case Study
5. Microsatellite Markers: Potential and Opportunities in Medicinal Plants
SECTION III: Micropropagation (Quality Assurance and Quality Control)
6. In vitro Propagation of Medicinal Plants for Conservation and Quality Assurance
7. Propagation of Elite Cannabis sativa L. for the Production of Δ[sup(9)]-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) using Biotechnological Tools
SECTION IV: In Vitro Secondary Metabolite Production
8. In Vitro Saponin Production in Plant Cell and Tissue Cultures
9. Podophyllotoxin and Related Lignans: Biotechnological Production by In Vitro Plant Cell Cultures
SECTION V: Harnessing the Potential of Hairy Root Cultures and Plant–Microbe Interactions
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 Himalayan Vinca major and V. minor
SECTION VI: Metabolomics and Metabolic Engineering
14. Analytical Platforms and Databases Ranging from Plant Transcriptomics to Metabolomics
SECTION VII: Bioinformatics: Interfacing Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
15. Docking-based Virtual Screening of Anticancer Drugs
SECTION VIII: Molecular Characterization of Medicinal Plants
16. Population Structure and Molecular Characterization of Podophyllum hexandrum of the Northwestern Himalayas
SECTION IX: Molecular Farming
17. Plant Virus Vector Systems for the Production and Delivery of Biopharmaceuticals
18. Novel Medicinal Plants for the Production and Delivery of Vaccines
SECTION X: Leads from Chemistry, Nanotechnology and Pharmacology for Future Biotechnological Interventions
19. Noscapinoids: a New Class of Anticancer Drugs Demand Biotechnological Intervention
20. Recent Developments in Biotechnology and Chemistry of Podophyllum
21. Plant-expressed Recombinant Griffithsin: a Protein with Potent Broad Spectrum Inhibitory Effects against Enveloped Viruses
22. Camptothecins: SAR, QSAR and Biotechnology
Medicinal Plant Biotechnology
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