Exploring Plant Cells for the Production of Compounds of Interest

1. Front Matter

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

   • Cassandra M. Brzycki, Eric M. Young, Susan C. Roberts

   Pages 1-37

3. Plant Cell Biofactories as In Vitro Production Platforms of the Anticancer Drug Camptothecin

   • Sarayu Murali, Hemalatha Rajendran, Smita Srivastava

   Pages 39-75

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

   • Winnie Yap Soo Ping, Melissa Kam Yit Yee

   Pages 77-94

5. Anthocyanins and Proanthocyanidins as Anticancer Agents

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

   Pages 95-124

6. Duckweeds for the Production of Therapeutic Proteins

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

   Pages 125-144

7. Essential Oils from Plants: Industrial Applications and Biotechnological Production

   • Mariana Andrade, Regiane Ribeiro-Santos, Ana Sanches Silva

   Pages 145-170

8. Biotechnological Production of Antistress Compounds: Current Status and Future Prospects

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

   Pages 171-193

9. Elicitors as a Biotechnological Tool for In Vitro Production of Bioactive Phenolic Compounds

   • Ana Hortência Fonseca Castro, Mairon César Coimbra, Caroline Rocha Neves Crema, Rodrigo Michelini de Oliveira Thomasi, Viviana Rodrigues Cardoso

   Pages 195-226

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

    • Hayrunnisa Nadaroglu

    Pages 227-248

11. Recent Advances Toward Development of Plant Cell Culture Process for Sustainable Production of Lignans and Their Health Benefits

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

    Pages 249-289

12. Physiology of Camptothecin Synthesis in Plants and Root Organ Cultures of Ophiorrhiza mungos L. and Its Production in Root Fermenters

    • Bernhard Wetterauer, Eric Hummel, Steffen Walczak, Melanie Distl, Markus Langhans, Pille Wetterauer et al.

    Pages 291-338

13. In Vitro Culture of Haloxylon recurvum and Haloxylon salicornicum: Valuable Source of Food Additives and Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Components from Extreme Arid Zone

    • Deepmala Goswami, Harchand R. Dagla

    Pages 339-345

14. Back Matter

    Pages 347-353

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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.

• Bioactive compounds
• anti-stress compounds
• plant epigenetics
• Biofactories
• lignans
• phytopharmaceuticals
• phenolic compounds
• secondary metabolite
• plant secondary metabolite

• Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil

  Sonia Malik

Dr Malik obtained her doctoral degree in Plant Biotechnology from the CSIR - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, India in 2009. She completed her Masters (Gold Medalist) in Honours Botany at Guru Nanak Dev University, India, in 2001. Her basic area of research is plant secondary metabolites and genetic manipulation in several medicinal plants. After spending several years at research/academic positions in Brazil, the Czech Republic and United Kingdom, in 2015 Dr Malik became a Professor of Biology at the Biological and Health Sciences Center, Federal University of Maranhao (UFMA), Brazil. Currently she is an active member of the UFMA’s post-graduate research program. She was awarded a FAPEMA Junior Researcher grant in 2015, and serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for various international scientific journals.

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