• This book involves not only the fundamentals of plants biotechnology for secondary metabolites productions but also metabolomic aspects of medicinal plants, bioactivity issues and bioengineering approaches for food and pharmaceutical industries. • It is unique in that it covers industrial applications of plant secondary metabolites in food and pharmaceutical applications • In addition to food scientists it will attract interest from researchers in basic studies, research scientists, in the plant biotechnology field, technical staff of processing industries, and private and public organizations involved with plant biotechnology, plant cell culture and metabolites production topics