Advances in Plant Biotechnology

The goal of Advances in Plant Biotechnology is to integrate the most recent knowledge on tissue culture, secondary metabolites production under controlled conditions, scaling-up to produce them at bioreactor level, and their industrial applications. The biosynthesis pathways and factors that affect them, and accumulation of metabolites including metabolomics in medicinal plants are key components as well. Several extraction and encapsulation technological procedures have been reviewed. Structure and function of metabolites from selected commercial crops have been reported in detail. Finally, items of paramount importance as bioaccessibility and stability of metabolites in pharma, and food products are very deeply analyzed.

Key Features

Strategies for obtaining selected metabolites through in vitro culture.
Application of biotechnological and bioengineering principles to management of plant metabolites.
Description for the encapsulation of selected metabolites.
Bioaccessibility and stability of metabolites in pharma, food and industrial sectors.

This book is mainly addressed to research scientists, to technical staff, and to private and public organizations in plant biotechnology and in its processing industries; and last, but not least, students of all levels and postdoctoral researchers have received special attention from all editors and authors along this publication.