Medicinal plant biotechnology : from basic research to industrial applications / edited by Oliver Kayser and Wim J. Quax.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume 1 pt. 1. Linking plants, genes, and biotechnology. 1. The engineering of medicinal plants: prospects and limitations of medicinal plant biotechnology -- 2. Metabolomics -- 3. HPLC-NMR techniques for plant extract analysis -- 4. Plant associated microorganisms (endophytes) as a new source of bioactive natural products -- 5. DNA profiling of plants -- 6. Bioprospecting: the search for bioactive lead structures from nature -- 7. Biotechnological approaches for the production of some promising plant-based chemotherapeutics -- volume 1, part 2. Genetic modifications, transgenic plants and potential of medicinal plants in genetechnology and biotechnology. 8. In-vitro culturing techniques of medicinal plants -- 9. Biotechnological methods for selection of high yield cell lines and production of secondary metabolites in medicinal plants -- 10. Impact of whole-genome and expressed sequence tag databases on the study of plant metabolism -- 11. Biotechnology of Solanaceae alkaloids: a model or an industrial perspective? -- volume 2, [part 2 cont.]. 12. Plant cell cultures: production of biologically important secondary metabolites from medicinal plants of Taiwan -- 13. Exploring and accessing plant natural product biosynthesis in engineered microbial hosts -- 14. Production of therapeutic antibodies in plants -- 15. Glycosylation of recombinant proteins in Plants -- 16. Frontiers in transgenic plants -- volume 2, part 3. Plants as drug factories. 17. Intellectual property protection of plant biotechnology -- 18. Breeding of medicinal plants -- 19. Camptothecin production in cell cultures of Ophiorrhiza species -- 20. Plant biochemistry and biotechnology of flavor compounds and essential oils -- 21. Gingko biloba and production of secondary metabolites -- 22. Production of Paclitaxel in plant cell cultures -- 23. Production of artemisinin for malaria therapy.