"Medicinal Plant Biotechnology"

From Basic Research to Industrial Applications

Oliver Kayser (Editor), W.J. Quax (Editor)

Wiley, 2007, 618 pages. $330.00 + shipping ($8.00, U.S. or $20.00 Elsewhere)

This unique overview of plants and transgenic techniques of great scientific, medicinal and economic value for both industry and academia covers the whole spectrum from cell culture techniques, via genetic engineering and secondary product metabolism right up to the use of transgenic plants for the production of bioactive compounds. Practical examples are given throughout, including the production of cancer therapeutics, functional food, and flavor compounds in plants.

CONTENTS

Volume I.

Part 1 Linking Plants, Genes, and Biotechnology.

1 The Engineering of Medicinal Plants: Prospects and Limitations of Medicinal Plant Biotechnology (Matthys K. Julsing, Wim J. Quax, and Oliver Kayser).
2 Metabolomics (Young Hae Choi, Hye Kyong Kim, and Robert Verpoorte).
3 HPLC-NMR Techniques for Plant Extract Analysis (Dan Stærk, Maja Lambert, and Jerzy W. Jaroszewski).
4 Plant-Associated Microorganisms (Endophytes) as a New Source of Bioactive Natural Products (Gary Strobel).
5 DNA Profiling of Plants (Hilde Nybom and Kurt Weising).
6 Bioprospecting: The Search for Bioactive Lead Structures from Nature (Michael Wink).
7 Biotechnological Approaches for the Production of some Promising Plant-Based Chemotherapeutics (Ashish Baldi, V.S. Bisaria, and A.K. Srivastava).

Part 2 Genetic Modifications, Transgenic Plants and Potential of Medicinal Plants in Genetechnology and Biotechnology.

8 In-Vitro Culturing Techniques of Medicinal Plants (Wolfgang Kreis).
9 Biotechnological Methods for Selection of High-Yielding Cell Lines and Production of Secondary Metabolites in Medicinal Plants (Donald P. Briskin).
10 Impact of Whole-Genome and Expressed Sequence Tag Databases on the Study of Plant Secondary Metabolism (Jillian M. Hagel, Jonathan E. Page, and Peter J. F acchini).
11 Biotechnology of Solanaceae Alkaloids: A Model or an Industrial Perspective? (Birgit Dräger).

Volume II.

12 Plant Cell Cultures: Production of Biologically Important Secondary Metabolites from Medicinal Plants of Taiwan (Mulabagal Vanisree and Hsin-Sheng Tsay).
13 Exploring and Accessing Plant Natural Product Biosynthesis in Engineered Microbial Hosts (Erin K. Marasco and Claudia Schmidt-Dannert).
14 Production of Therapeutic Antibodies in Plants (Richard M. Twyman, Stefan Schillberg, and Rainer Fischer).
15 Glycosylation of Recombinant Proteins in Plants (Gilbert Gorr and Friedrich Altmann).
16 Frontiers in Transgenic Medicinal Plants Research (Ya’akov Tadmor and Efraim Lewinsohn).

Part 3 Plants as Drug Factories.

17 Intellectual Property Protection of Plant Biotechnology (Konrad Sechley and Clare Salisbury).
18 Breeding of Medicinal Plants (Friedrich Pank).
19 Campto thecin Production in Cell Cultures of Ophiorrhiza Species (Takashi Asano, Hiroshi Sudo, Mami Yamazaki, and Kazuki Saito).
20 Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology of Flavor Compounds and Essential Oils (Dinesh A. Nagegowda and Natalia Dudareva).
21 Ginkgo biloba and Production of Secondary Metabolites (Christine Sohier and Didier Courtois).
22 Production of Paclitaxel in Plant Cell Cultures (Homare Tabata).
23 Biological Production of Artemisinin for Malaria Therapy (Yan Zhao and Chunzhao Liu).

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