Short description:

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.

Long description:

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 biosynthetic pathways and the factors that affect them and the accumulation of metabolites, including metabolomics in medicinal plants, are key components as well. Several extraction and encapsulation technological procedures are reviewed. The structure and function of metabolites from selected commercial crops are reported in detail. Finally, items of paramount importance, such as bioavailability and stability of metabolites in pharma and food products are deeply analyzed.

Key Features:

• Strategies for obtaining selected metabolites through in vitro culture


• Application of biotechnological and bioengineering principles to the management of plant metabolites


• Description of the encapsulation of selected metabolites


• Bioavailability and stability of metabolites in pharma, food, and industrial sectors

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

Table of Contents:

1. Cell culture, somatic embryogenesis, and plant regeneration. 2. Secondary metabolites of Mesoamerican plants Castilleja tenuiflor Benth. and Baccharis conferta Kunth with anti-inflammatory effects. 3. Production of secondary metabolites by hairy root cultures. 4. Differentiated plant cell suspension cultures: the new promise for secondary metabolite production. 5. Metabolomics in medicinal plants. 6. Extraction, encapsulation, and biological activity of phenolic compounds, alkaloids, and acetogenins from the Annona genus. 7. Importance of plant secondary metabolites with biological activity on selected commercial crops. 8. Encapsulation of plant secondary metabolites of industrial interest. 9. Bioaccessibility and stability of plant secondary metabolites in pharmaceutical and food matrices.