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| Preface |
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| Foreword |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| About the Editor |
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SECTION I Plant Biotechnology and Medicine |
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1 Emerging Trends in Medicinal Plant Biotechnology |
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2 Medicinal Compounds Produced in Plant Cell Factories |
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SECTION II Natural Resource Management (Biodiversity Conservation and Genetic Diversity Screening) |
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3 Biotechnological Characterization of Different Populations of an Endangered Medicinal Herb- Podophyllum hexandrum Royle |
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36 | (12) |
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4 Traditional and Biotechnological Strategies for Conservation of Podophyllum hexandrum Royle- A Case Study |
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48 | (23) |
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5 Microsatellite Markers: Potential and Opportunities in Medicinal Plants |
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SECTION III Micropropagation (Quality Assurance and Quality Control) |
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6 In vitro Propagation of Medicinal Plants for Conservation and Quality Assurance |
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93 | (5) |
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7 Propagation of Elite Cannabis sativa L. for the Production of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) using Biotechnological Tools |
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SECTION IV In Vitro Secondary Metabolite Production |
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8 In Vitro Saponin Production in Plant Cell and Tissue Cultures |
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9 Podophyllotoxin and Related Lignans: Biotechnological Production by In Vitro Plant Cell Cultures |
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SECTION V Harnessing the Potential of Hairy Root Cultures and Plant-Microbe Interactions |
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10 Hairy Root Culture: Copying Nature in New Bioprocesses |
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11 Genetic Transformation of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don. for Augmenting Secondary Metabolite Production |
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12 Podophyllum Endophytic Fungi |
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13 Biotechnology of Himalayan Vinca major and V. minor |
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207 | (15) |
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SECTION VI Metabolomics and Metabolic Engineering |
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14 Analytical Platforms and Databases Ranging from Plant Transcriptomics to Metabolomics |
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SECTION VII Bioinformatics: Interfacing Biotechnology and Bioinformatics |
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15 Docking-based Virtual Screening of Anticancer Drugs |
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SECTION VIII Molecular Characterization of Medicinal Plants |
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16 Population Structure and Molecular Characterization of Podophyllum hexandrum of the Northwestern Himalayas |
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SECTION IX Molecular Farming |
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17 Plant Virus Vector Systems for the Production and Delivery of Biopharmaceuticals |
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18 Novel Medicinal Plants for the Production and Delivery of Vaccines |
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287 | (16) |
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SECTION X Leads from Chemistry, Nanotechnology and Pharmacology for Future Biotechnological Interventions |
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19 Noscapinoids: a New Class of Anticancer Drugs Demand Biotechnological Intervention |
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20 Recent Developments in Biotechnology and Chemistry of Podophyllum |
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321 | (13) |
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21 Plant-expressed Recombinant Griffithsin: a Protein with Potent Broad Spectrum Inhibitory Effects against Enveloped Viruses |
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334 | (12) |
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22 Camptothecins: SAR, QSAR and Biotechnology |
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