TY - BOOK AU - Kayser,Oliver AU - Quax,Wim J. TI - Medicinal plant biotechnology: from basic research to industrial applications SN - 3527314431 PY - 2007/// CY - Weinheim PB - Wiley-VCH KW - Medicinal plants KW - Biotechnology KW - methods KW - Plants, Medicinal KW - Phytotherapy N1 - 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 ER -