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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.

Exploring Plant Cells for the Production of Compounds of Interest

Table of Content

1. Secondary Metabolite Production in Plant Cell Culture: A New Epigenetic Frontier

By Cassandra M. Brzycki, Eric M. Young and Susan C. Roberts

 

2. Plant Cell Biofactories as in vitro production platforms of the anti-cancer drug Camptothecin

By Sarayu M, Hemalatha R, Smita Srivastava

 

3. Not One for All: The Interwoven Relationship Between Morphophysiology and Secondary Metabolite Production in Plant Cell Cultures

By Winnie Yap Soo Ping, Melissa Kam Yit Yee

 

4. Anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins as Anti-cancer agents

By Bharat Bhushan, Bahadur Singh Jat, Manesh Chander Dagla, Sumit Kumar Aggarwal and Sujay Rakshit

 

5. Duckweeds for the production of therapeutic proteins

By Pavel Khvatkov, Alexsey Firsov, Tatyana Mitiouchkina, Mariya Chernobrovkina, Sergey Dolgov

 

6. Essential oils from plants: Industrial applications and Biotechnological production

By Mariana Andrade, Regiane Ribeiro Santos, Ana Sanches Silva

 

7. Biotechnological production of antistress compounds: Current status and future prospects

By Sanghamitra Nayak, Asit Ray, Ambika Sahoo, Sudipta Jena, Jeetendranath Patnaik

 

8. Elicitors as a biotechnological tool for in vitro production of bioactive phenolic compounds

By Ana Hortencia Fonseca Castro, Mairon César Coimbra, Caroline Rocha Neves Crema, Rodrigo Michelini de Oliveira Thomasi and Viviana Rodrigues Cardoso

 

9. Immobilization and Application of Industrial Enzymes on Plant Based New Generation Polymers

By Hayrunnisa NADAROGLU

 

10. Recent advances towards development plant cell culture process for sustainable production of lignans and its health benefits

By Ahmed M.M. Gabr, Hoda B. Mabrok, Oksana Sytar, Iryna Smetanska

 

11. Physiology of camptothecin synthesis in plants and root organ cultures of Ophiorrhiza mungos L. and its production in root fermenters

By Bernhard Wetterauer, Eric Hummel, Steffen Walczak, Melanie Distl, Markus Langhans, Pille Wetterauer, Frank Sporer, Eckhart Wildi and Michael Wink

 

12. In vitro culture of Haloxylon recurvum and Haloxylon salicornicum: valuable source of food additives, pharmaceutical and nutritional components from extreme arid zone

By Deepmala Goswami and Harchand R Dagla