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Plant Bioactive Molecules (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Plant Bioactive Molecules (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Plants have always been a source of nourishment and healing for
living things. Their dual task of producing nutrients and medicines
has played a key role in the evolution of herbivore and omnivore
organisms. The so-called secondary metabolites are molecules with
well-defined functional roles. These compounds are produced to
defend plants from abiotic and biotic stresses. The complexity of
the molecular structures produced by plants is only equal to their
versatility and chemical diversity, while the harmonic intertwining
of biosynthetic and metabolic pathways offers a perfect picture of
the adaptive plasticity of plants to changing environmental
conditions.This book is divided into three parts designed to
provide the reader with a general overview, a biochemical and a
biotechnological approach to plant bioactive molecules.The first
part analyses the concepts of chemical diversity, sustainability
and functional role of bioactive molecules, by exploring the sites
of synthesis and accumulation, the plant defence strategies and the
use of bioactive molecules as food supplements and as a source for
natural products to fight diseases. The first part ends with the
study of chemotaxonomy.The second part is dedicated to plant
biochemistry, with the detailed description of the main
biosynthetic pathways leading to the synthesis of phenols and
flavonoids, terpenes, oxylipins and nitrogen-containing
substances.The third and final part describes plant biotechnology
and production of bioactive molecules with industrial processes,
both in vivo and in vitro. Special attention is paid to cell and
tissue cultures, roots and shoots cultures, technological aspects
describing bioreactors, biofermenters and photobioreactors. The
book concludes with a chapter describing the genetic engineering
strategies for the production of plant bioactive molecules, facing
with ethical problems, risks and benefits of using recombinant DNA
in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the use of molecular
pharming, with a general discussion on food safety.
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