Applications in Plant Biotechnology (eBook, PDF)

Focus on Plant Secondary Metabolism and Plant Molecular Pharming
Redaktion: Makhzoum, Abdullah; Hefferon, Kathleen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book focuses on interesting topics in plant biotechnology and its applications. The first section covers a number of specific medicinal plants and their secondary metabolites using genetic and metabolic engineering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000818383
• Artikelnr.: 66291411

Autorenporträt

Professor Abdullah Makhzoum received his PhD from the University of Tours in France, and completed his postdoctoral fellowship as well visitor Scientist at Western University in Ontario, Canada. Abdullah has published numerous research papers, chapters and reviews, and he is now working as an associate professor in the department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at BIUST University. His research interests include most aspects of plant biotechnology and its applications such as plant secondary metabolites, plant molecular pharming, phytoremediation and Plant Bioinformatics. Professor Kathleen Hefferon received her PhD from the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. Kathleen has published several research papers, chapters and reviews, and has written three books. Kathleen is the Fulbright Canada Research Chair of Global Food Security and has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto over the past year. Her research interests include virus expression vectors, food security agricultural biotechnology and global health. Kathleen lives in New York with her husband and two children.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1-Plant Secondary Metabolism 1. Withania somnifera: A Future Pharma
Factory 2. Biotechnological Approaches for Tropane Alkaloids Production 3.
Anticancer Mechanisms of Plant Secondary Metabolism 4. In silico and
Computational Analysis of Plant Secondary Metabolites from African
Medicinal Plants 5. Botany, Phytochemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicity of
the Southern African Strychnos Species 6. Preference of Agrobacterium
rhizogenes Mediated Transformation of Angiosperms Part 2- Plant Molecular
Pharming 7. Plant Molecular Pharming: Methods, Tools, Challenges Ahead for
Production of Recombinant Proteins, and Potential Solutions 8. Plant-based
Vaccines against Livestock Diseases: Way to Achieve Several Sustainable
Development Goals 9. Chloroplast Biotechnology Tools for Industrial and
Clinical Applications 10. Plant Virus-Based Expression Vectors and their
Applications in Foreign Protein/Antigen Expression 11. Plant Molecular
Pharming of Biologics to Combat HIV