Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials

A Comprehensive Guide
Herausgeber: Sarkar, Abhijit; Agrawal, Ganesh Kumar; Rakwal, Randeep; Singh, Pardeep

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials offers an in-depth overview of the latest research on these functional molecules, emphasizing their diverse biological roles and growing relevance across disciplines. The book brings together insights into their discovery, mechanisms, and applications to deepen understanding and inspire future research. Plant peptides are key regulators of growth, development, defense, and stress responses, and they show considerable promise in pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and herbal medicine applications. The volume spans topics from peptide identification and imaging to signaling pathways, molecular interactions, and bioinformatics approaches. It also covers both conventional and advanced tools in peptide science, including post-translational modifications, peptide mimicry, and innovations in nanotechnology and biotechnology. Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials is a valuable resource for researchers and professionals in plant biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology, and biotechnology, as well as those developing plant-derived health and therapeutic products.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780443156526
• ISBN-10: 0443156522
• Artikelnr.: 70342047

Inhaltsangabe

1. Peptides: a fascinating, unique, and universal molecule with incredible
potentials
2. Peptides: through the looking glass of past discoveries
3. Modern methods to isolate, characterize, and purify bioactive peptides
4. Peptide hormones: key regulators of growth, development, and stress
response in plants
5. Plant antimicrobial peptides
6. Plant-based antifungal peptides: novel therapeutic compounds against
emerging fungal pathogens
7. Crosstalk of peptides for communications in plants
8. Plant-based bioactive peptides: pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and
herbal drugs
9. Harnessing nanostructures for the delivery of plant antimicrobial
peptides
10. Emerging applications of nanotechnology for enhancing the efficacy of
plant-based peptides
11. Algal peptides: diversity, roles, relation to plant peptide science,
and applications in crop improvement
12. Plant-derived peptides and their emerging applications in agricultural
biotechnology
13. Plant peptides involved in reactive oxygen species signaling and biotic
and abiotic stress