Medicinal Plant Biotechnology

Foreword

Introduction

PART 1 METABOLIC PATHWAYS AND SECONDARY PRODUCTS

Introduction to medicinal plant biotechnology

Proteomics in plant biotechnology and secondary metabolism research and metabolic profiling

LC-NMR/MS as new technique for plant extract screening

High Throughput Screening of plant extracts

Endophytes as new source of natural products

Polyketide pathway and artemisinin

Biotechnology methods for selection of high yielding cell lines and production of secondary metabolite in medicinal plants

PART 2 GENETIC MODIFICATION AND TRANSGENIC PLANTS

Problems and strategies of plant gene tranfer systems

Sequencing of A. thaliana - what can we learn for the future

In vitro manipulation and propagation of medicinal plants

Medicinally used transgenic plants

Proteomics and Bioinformatics on medicinal plant genomes

Combinatorial biosynthesis

Identification of plant species

PART 3 CELL CULTURE AND PRODUCTION OF MEDICINAL PRODUCTS

Production of paclitaxel

Production of heterologous recombinant proteins in plant systems

Biorector techniques for plants

Breeding of transgenic medicinal plants, Resistance

In vitro culturing techniques of medicinal plants

Biotechnology for improving medicinal plants

PART 4 USE OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED MEDICINALLY PLANTS

Regulation of transgenic plant breeding

Functional plants in food industry

Intellectual property protection of plant biotechnology inventions

Industrial perspective of plant biotechnology in medicine

Vaccines produced in plants

Biotechnology of neem : Azadirachta indica A. juss

Biodegradable plastics

Plant biotechnology and the production of flavour compounds

Biosynthesis of shikonin and 4-hydroxycoumarines

Prof. Oliver Kayser studied pharmacy at the University Münster. He received his PhD and his postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) from the Free University Berlin in 1997 and 2003. In 2004 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University Groningen for Pharmaceutical Biology. His research interests are phytochemstry, combinatorial biosynthesis and plant biotechnology. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed papers and proceedings and has authored and edited 5 books.
 
Professor Wim Quax is head of the laboratory of pharmaceutical biology in the Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy in the Netherlands. He has published more than 70 peer reviewed papers, and is member of numerous scientific organisations and committees.

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