Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- About the Editor -- SECTION I: Plant Biotechnology and Medicine -- 1. Emerging Trends in Medicinal Plant Biotechnology -- 2. Medicinal Compounds Produced in Plant Cell Factories -- SECTION II: Natural Resource Management (Biodiversity Conservation and Genetic Diversity Screening) -- 3. Biotechnological Characterization of Different Populations of an Endangered Medicinal Herb-Podophyllum hexandrum Royle -- 4. Traditional and Biotechnological Strategies for Conservation of Podophyllum hexandrum Royle-A Case Study -- 5. Microsatellite Markers: Potential and Opportunities in Medicinal Plants -- SECTION III: Micropropagation (Quality Assurance and Quality Control) -- 6. In vitro Propagation of Medicinal Plants for Conservation and Quality Assurance -- 7. Propagation of Elite Cannabis sativa L. for the Production of Δ[sup(9)]-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) using Biotechnological Tools -- SECTION IV: In Vitro Secondary Metabolite Production -- 8. In Vitro Saponin Production in Plant Cell and Tissue Cultures -- 9. Podophyllotoxin and Related Lignans: Biotechnological Production by In Vitro Plant Cell Cultures -- SECTION V: Harnessing the Potential of Hairy Root Cultures and Plant-Microbe Interactions -- 10. Hairy Root Culture: Copying Nature in New Bioprocesses -- 11. Genetic Transformation of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don. for Augmenting Secondary Metabolite Production -- 12. Podophyllum Endophytic Fungi -- 13. Biotechnology of Himalayan Vinca major and V. minor -- SECTION VI: Metabolomics and Metabolic Engineering -- 14. Analytical Platforms and Databases Ranging from Plant Transcriptomics to Metabolomics -- SECTION VII: Bioinformatics: Interfacing Biotechnology and Bioinformatics -- 15. Docking-based Virtual Screening of Anticancer Drugs.

SECTION VIII: Molecular Characterization of Medicinal Plants -- 16. Population Structure and Molecular Characterization of Podophyllum hexandrum of the Northwestern Himalayas -- SECTION IX: Molecular Farming -- 17. Plant Virus Vector Systems for the Production and Delivery of Biopharmaceuticals -- 18. Novel Medicinal Plants for the Production and Delivery of Vaccines -- SECTION X: Leads from Chemistry, Nanotechnology and Pharmacology for Future Biotechnological Interventions -- 19. Noscapinoids: a New Class of Anticancer Drugs Demand Biotechnological Intervention -- 20. Recent Developments in Biotechnology and Chemistry of Podophyllum -- 21. Plant-expressed Recombinant Griffithsin: a Protein with Potent Broad Spectrum Inhibitory Effects against Enveloped Viruses -- 22. Camptothecins: SAR, QSAR and Biotechnology -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.