Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials: A Comprehensive Guide is a complete overview of the latest research focused around the emerging and multidisciplinary values of these functional biomolecules. Providing insights into their origin, discovery, application and potential, the book places multiple facets together to improve understanding and inspire further research.
Peptides not only play an essential role in the evolution and survival of plants but are also important for their role in health-promoting supplements and medicines. Written by experts from the specific disciplines, Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials reviews these nano-molecules which regulate plant growth, development, and defense; as well as imparting substantial commercial importance as herbal pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals. The book covers the array of fundamental and application-oriented knowledge relating to this important functional plant bio-molecule.
The book will guide those working in the areas of plant biochemistry and physiology, as well as those seeking to develop new food and pharmaceutical products.
1. Evolutionary history of Peptide science
2. The Peptide World: Concept, Distribution and Demarcation
3. Peptide, Peptidome and Peptidomics: The Hottest Trilogy
4. Peptides: A Fascinating, Unique and Universal Molecule with Incredible Potentials
5. Peptides: Through the Looking Glass of Past Discoveries
6. Conventional Approaches of Plant Peptide Purification and recent tools for their Identification
7. Peptide Imaging: Characterization and Fingerprinting
8. Post-translational Modification and Proteolytic Processing of Plant Peptides
9. Plant Peptide Hormones
10. Exploring Plant Peptides involved in Plant-Insect/Microbes Interaction
11. Peptides involved in Cell Proliferation, Expansion and Differentiation
12. Peptide Mimicry
13. Spatiotemporal Signalling Regulated by Plant Peptides
14. Plant Peptides involved in ROS Signalling and Biotic and Abiotic Stress Responses
15. Biosynthetic and chemical discoveries of cyclic plant peptides and their importance in plant system
16. Crosstalk of Peptides for plant communications
17. Plant peptides as major plant based products: pharmaceuticals, neutraceuticals and herbal drugs
18. Decoding Interactome of plant peptides through Bioinformatics Approaches
19. Metapeptidomics: Concept, Feasibility and Future
20. Nanotechnology and peptide science
21. Biotechnological advancement in peptide science
Dr. Abhijit Sarkar is currently an assistant professor of botany at the University of Gour Banga (India). He holds a BSc (Hons.) and an MSc in botany (with specialization in plant physiology, biochemistry, and plant molecular biology) from the University of Calcutta (India) and a PhD in Botany from Banaras Hindu University (India). Dr. Sarkar's research work encompasses air pollution and its effects on plant biology and human health, including ozone, heat, UV radiation (natural and manmade), plant pathogens, with close collaborators in Japan, South Korea, Nepal, United States, Italy, and India. Dr. Pardeep Singh is presently working as an assistant professor at the Department of Environment Studies, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, India. He obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science at Banaras Hindu University, India in 2011 and then his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), India, in 2017. He has published more than 35 papers in international journals in the field of waste management and co-edited over 30 books with various publishers. Professor Randeep Rakwal is a professor at the University of Tsukuba (Japan), at the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences. His major research interests in plant environmental stress biology are jasmonic acid, ozone, heat, radiations, plant pathogens using omics” approaches, with close collaborators in Japan, South Korea, Nepal, USA, Italy, Australia and India. He is one of the founding members of the International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO). Ganesh Kumar Agrawal is the Associate Director of RLABB, a nonprofit research organization focusing on biotechnology and biochemistry in Kathmandu, Nepal. Dr. Agrawal is a multidisciplinary scientist focused on food security and human nutrition using high-throughput and targeted omics techniques. He has edited a comprehensive Plant Proteomics: Technologies, Strategies, and Applications” book (John Wiley & Sons, NY, USA). He holds a PhD in Applied Biological Chemistry from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Japan). He is an initiator of the International Plant Proteomics Organization (InPPO).
