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Food security and the medicinal needs of billions of people around
the world are pressing global issues, and the biodiversity and
sustainable utilization of plants is of great significance in this
context. Further, ethnobotanical studies are vital in the discovery
of new drugs from indigenous medicinal plants, and plants with
industrially important metabolites need to be cultivated to meet
the growing market demand. In addition, the production of plant
metabolites under in vitro conditions also has tremendous
possibilities. The totipotency of plant cells plays a valuable role
in the sustainable utilization of plant resources through cell,
tissue and organ culture. At the same time, production can be
enhanced using productive cell lines, treatment with elicitors,
changing nutritional parameters and metabolic engineering. This
book provides state-of-the-art information on biodiversity,
conservation, ethnobotany, various aspects of In vitro secondary
metabolite production, bioprospecting from various plant groups and
drug discovery. It also discusses methods of extracting and
characterizing drug leads from plant sources.
This book brings together chapters related to sustainable
utilization of biological resources, including in situ and ex situ
conservation of rare, endangered, and threatened plants. The title
also gives a special emphasis on marine sponges and mangrove
ecosystems, which are two important untapped potential resources of
the marine ecosystem and play a key role in maintaining the marine
ecosystem. There is an urgent need for the conservation,
exploration and utilization of bioresources for the growth and
survival of human beings. Due to the significant reduction in
biological resources, many countries are developing strategic
action plans for the conservation and sustainable use of biological
resources. That is where this book fills the gap by discussing the
significant development of new products and methodologies for
sustainable utilization of these resources. This book also unveils
a world of novel bioactive molecules from medicinal plants and the
marine ecosystem and explains how drug design pipelines can advance
modern drug development. The target audiences for this book include
biodiversity researchers who are working on technology and
bioresource management issues and faculty and students in the
environment research areas and Biodiversity conservation.
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