Plant Biotechnology : The Medicinal and Phytopharmaceutical Aspects (Hardcover)

Chapter 1: Historical perspectives, prospects for development of plant biotechnology as a source of medicinal agents. Applications in pharmacy and allied fields
Chapter 2: Laboratory Requirements to Setup Plant Biotechnology laboratory, and General laboratory
Chapter 3: Recombinant DNA technology and its application in plant biotechnology
Chapter 4: Protoplast isolation and fusion
Chapter 5: In vitro propagation of Medicinal and Aromatic plants: The Current status on Concepts and Methods
Chapter 6: Sterilization methods and techniques involved in tissue culture with protocols to sterilize different plant parts
Chapter 7: Gene transfer in plants and their application
Chapter 8: Immobilization Techniques of Plant Cells and its Application on Secondary Metabolite Production
Chapter 9: Cloning of Plant cell: Different methods of cloning and its applications. Advantages and Disadvantages of plant cell cloning
Chapter 10: Secondary metabolism in tissue cultures with emphasis on production of medicinal agents. Precursors and elicitors on production of secondary metabolites. Applications and associated problems.
Chapter 11: Biotransformation: Bioreactors for pilot and large-scale cultures of plant cells and retention of biosynthetic potential in cell cultures
Chapter 12: Biotransformation: Bioreactor Strategies for Scaling Plant Cell Cultures and Metabolic Stability
Chapter 13: Methods used in gene identification, localization, and sequencing of the genes. Applications of PCR in plant genome analysis
Chapter 14: Fermentation Technology for Production of Ergot Alkaloids; Single Cell Proteins and Enzymes of Pharmaceutical Interest
Chapter 15: Computational Techniques for Drug Discovery from Medicinal Plants
Chapter 16: Biotechnological Approaches for the Microbial Production of Plant?based Compounds
Chapter 17: DNA-based approaches for discrimination of medicinal plants from their adulterants
Chapter 18: Medicinal plants and their chemical compounds in ruminant nutrition and antimethanogenic effects: The biotechnological approach
Chapter 19: Isolation Techniques of Phytocompounds of the Medicinal Plants
Chapter 20. Potential Role Of Metabolomics In Medicinal Plant Biotechnology Research