Medicinal plant biotechnology /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicinal plants > Biotechnology.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Propagation.; in vitro Culture of Plant Material.; Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Cell, Tissue and Embryo Manipulation, (New June 2002); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Plants.; Biodiversity.; Bioinformatics.; Biotechnology.; Conservation.; Genetic diversity.; Genetic engineering.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Hairy root cultures.; In vitro culture.; In vitro production.; Medicinal plants.; Metabolomics.; Micropropagation.; Molecular farming.; Quality controls.; Resource management.; Secondary metabolites.; Transgenic plants.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 357 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book covers the current knowledge in the subject of medicinal plant biotechnology and discusses the various facets in the light of contemporary developments. The book is organized into 10 major sections: (1) plant biotechnology and medicine; (2) natural resource management (biodiversity conservation and genetic diversity screening); (3) micropropagation (quality assurance and quality control); (4) in vitro secondary metabolite production; (5) harnessing the potential of hairy root cultures and plant-microbe interactions; (6) metabolomics and metabolic engineering; (7) bioinformatics: interfacing biotechnology and bioinformatics; (8) molecular characterization of medicinal plants; (9) molecular farming; and (10) leads from chemistry, nanotechnology and pharmacology for future biotechnological interventions.