Medicinal Plant Biotechnology

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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. Contents......Page 5 Contributors......Page 8 Preface......Page 11 Foreword......Page 13 Acknowledgements......Page 14 About the Editor......Page 15 1. Emerging Trends in Medicinal Plant Biotechnology......Page 17 2. Medicinal Compounds Produced in Plant Cell Factories......Page 29 3. Biotechnological Characterization of Different Populations of an Endangered Medicinal Herb–Podophyllum hexandrum Royle......Page 52 4. Traditional and Biotechnological Strategies for Conservation of Podophyllum hexandrum Royle–A Case Study......Page 64 5. Microsatellite Markers: Potential and Opportunities in Medicinal Plants......Page 87 6. In vitro Propagation of Medicinal Plants for Conservation and Quality Assurance......Page 109 7. Propagation of Elite Cannabis sativa L. for the Production of Δ[sup(9)]-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) using Biotechnological Tools......Page 114 8. In Vitro Saponin Production in Plant Cell and Tissue Cultures......Page 131 9. Podophyllotoxin and Related Lignans: Biotechnological Production by In Vitro Plant Cell Cultures......Page 154 10. Hairy Root Culture: Copying Nature in New Bioprocesses......Page 172 11. Genetic Transformation of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don. for Augmenting Secondary Metabolite Production......Page 192 12. Podophyllum Endophytic Fungi......Page 213 13. Biotechnology of Himalayan Vinca major and V. minor......Page 223 14. Analytical Platforms and Databases Ranging from Plant Transcriptomics to Metabolomics......Page 238 15. Docking-based Virtual Screening of Anticancer Drugs......Page 260 16. Population Structure and Molecular Characterization of Podophyllum hexandrum of the Northwestern Himalayas......Page 283 17. Plant Virus Vector Systems for the Production and Delivery of Biopharmaceuticals......Page 293 18. Novel Medicinal Plants for the Production and Delivery of Vaccines......Page 303 19. Noscapinoids: a New Class of Anticancer Drugs Demand Biotechnological Intervention......Page 319 20. Recent Developments in Biotechnology and Chemistry of Podophyllum......Page 337 21. Plant-expressed Recombinant Griffithsin: a Protein with Potent Broad Spectrum Inhibitory Effects against Enveloped Viruses......Page 350 22. Camptothecins: SAR, QSAR and Biotechnology......Page 362 B......Page 375 C......Page 376 D......Page 377 F......Page 378 H......Page 379 L......Page 380 M......Page 381 P......Page 382 R......Page 383 S......Page 384 V......Page 385 X......Page 386