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" Plant bioactive molecules / "
by Massino Maffei.
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BL
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852808
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Maffei, Massimo
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Plant bioactive molecules /\ by Massino Maffei.
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| Publication Statement
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,, [2018]
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xiii, 432 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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1527513149
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: 9781527513143
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Abstract
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"This book is divided into three parts designed to provide the reader with a general overview, a biochemical and a biotechnological approach to plant bioactive molecules. The first part analyzes the concepts of chemical diversity, sustainability and functional role of bioactive molecules, by exploring the sites of synthesis and accumulation, the plant defense strategies and the use of bioactive molecules as food supplements and as a source for natural products to fight diseases. The first part ends with the study of chemotaxonomy. The second part is dedicated to plant biochemistry, with the detailed description of the main biosynthetic pathways leading to the synthesis of phenols and flavonoids, terpenes, oxylipins and nitrogen-containing substances. The third and final part describes plant biotechnology and production of bioactive molecules with industrial processes, both in vivo and in vitro. Special attention is paid to cell and tissue cultures, roots and shoots cultures, technological aspects describing bioreactors, biofermenters and photobioreactors. The book concludes with a chapter describing the genetic engineering strategies for the production of plant bioactive molecules, facing with ethical problems, risks and benefits of using recombinant DNA in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the use of molecular pharming, with a general discussion on food safety."--back cover.
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Biomolecules.
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Plant bioactive compounds.
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Biomolecules.
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Plant bioactive compounds.
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572.8/2
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QK898.B54M34 2018
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