ABSTRACT
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. The pharmaceutical uses of these plant bioactive compounds and their applications in treating a variety of diseases including cancer, as well as recent works on in silico and bioinformatic analysis are described. The second section deals with innovative plant molecular pharming approaches and reviews the potential for using various plant host systems to design and produce effective new drugs to treat different illnesses and diseases such as HIV, infectious diseases, and other human and livestock diseases.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|161 pages
Plant Secondary Metabolism
chapter Chapter 4|17 pages
In silico and Computational Analysis of Plant Secondary Metabolites from African Medicinal Plants
chapter Chapter 5|28 pages
Botany, Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicity of the Southern African
chapter Chapter 6|43 pages
Preference of Agrobacterium rhizogenes Mediated Transformation of Angiosperms
part II|186 pages
Plant Molecular Pharming