Medicinal plant biotechnology [electronic resource] / editor, Rajesh Arora.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arora, Rajesh.

C.A.B. International.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicinal plants--Biotechnology.

Medicinal plants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : CABI, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Emerging trends in medicinal plant biotechnology / Rajesh Arora

Medicinal compounds produced in plant cell factories / Suvi T. Häkkinen and Anneli Ritala

Biotechnological characterization of different populations of an endangered medicinal herb- Podophyllum hexandrum Royle / Hemant Lata and Suman Chandra

Traditional and biotechnological strategies for conservation of Podophyllum hexandrum Royle / Amit C. Kharkwal ... [et al.]

Microsatellite markers: potential and opportunities in medicinal plants / Atul Grover, Ankit Jain and P.C. Sharma

In vitro-propagation of medicinal plants for conservation and quality assurance / Chris Wawrosch

Propagation of elite Cannabis sativa L. for the production of 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) using biotechnological tools / Suman Chandra ... [et al.]

In vitro saponin production in plant cell and tissue cultures / Archana Mathur and Ajay K. Mathur

Podophyllotoxin and related lignans: biotechnological production by in vitro plant cell cultures / Iliana Ionkova

Hairy root culture: copying nature in new bioprocesses / M. Georgiev, Jutta Ludwig-Müller and Thomas Bley

Genetic transformation of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don. for augmenting secondary metabolite production / Rajesh Arora ... [et al.]

Podophyllum endophytic fungi / John R. Porter

Biotechnology of Vinca major and Vinca minor / Rajesh Arora ... [et al.]

Analytical platforms and databases ranging from plant transcriptomics to metabolomics / Tetsuya Sakurai, Kenji Akiyama and Kazuki Saito

Docking-based virtual screening of anticancer drugs / Feroze Khan, Abha Meena and Ashok Sharma

Population structure and molecular characterization of Podophyllum hexandrum of the northwestern Himalayas / Pradeep K. Naik, Shri Ram and Harvinder Singh

Plant virus vector systems for the production and delivery of biopharmaceuticals / Rofina Yasmin Othman, Noor Hasima Nagoor

Novel medicinal plants for the production and delivery of vaccines / Simone Reichwein and H. Warzecha

Noscapinoids: a new class of anti-cancer drugs demand biotechnological intervention / Harish C. Joshi ... [et al.]

Recent developments in chemistry and biotechnology of Podophyllum / Abha Chaudhary, Bikram Singh and Paramvir Singh Ahuja

Plant-derived recombinant Griffithsin: a protein with potent broad spectrum inhibitory effects against enveloped viruses / J. Calvin Kouokam and Kenneth E. Palmer

Camptothecins : SAR, QSAR, and biotechnology / Rajeshwar P. Verma.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-90632-1

9786612906329

1-84593-692-2

OCLC:

693761578