New Horizons in Natural Compound Research provides the latest updates in natural compound research (plant, microbes, algae, fungi) and their novel applications in health, agriculture and environment. The book gives recent advances in the extraction of natural compounds, cutting-edge approaches for natural compound purifications, and emerging trends in natural compound screening and identification. In addition, it provides a detailed explanation of the databases and libraries of natural compounds, as well as their significance. Sections focus on research and multidisciplinary practical techniques of natural product research, encouraging young scientists to pursue unique research while also generating strong research ideas.
From a future perspective, this book acts as a guide to identify potential areas and new research opportunities in the field of natural products and their service towards human beings, animals and the environment.
- Provides a one–stop solution for concepts, cutting-edge techniques, methods, and novel applications of natural products in health and the environment
- Focuses on current gaps in natural product research, as well as methodologies and techniques to assist researchers in resolving existing challenges and speeding up the pace of drug discovery from natural sources
- Highlights new avenues of natural product research
- Contains contributions from well-experienced researchers from academia, research institutes and top-notch young scientists from industry
1. Natural compounds for health and environment: past, present and future
2. Recent advances in extraction of natural compounds
3. Cutting edge approaches for natural compound purifications
4. Emerging trends in natural compound screening and identifications
5. Natural chemical diversity: related to origin, space and time
6. Diversity of chemical Skeletons: Different Strategies to benefit from diversity
7. Databases and libraries of natural compounds: Benefits and future prospects
8. Modern approaches for mining of novel compounds
9. Small molecules Vs. biologics
10. Drugs Discovery from Fungi: Past, Present and Future
11. Marine oligosaccharides: Enzymatic preparation, purification and its application in biomedicine
12. Marine Microalgae: an emerging source of pharmaceuticals and Bioactive Compounds
13. Anti-nutritional factors with medicinal properties
14. enzyme Vs organocatalysis
15. Role of natural compounds in chemoprevention foods
16. Effect of Medicinal plant extract: A novel concept of management and Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease
17. Green synthesis of natural compounds
18. Drug repurposing: A computational approach
19. Compound synergy in natural crude extract: A novel concept in drug formulation
20. Natural compounds for animal free disease scaffold model
21. Informatics and Computational Methods in Natural Product Drug Discovery
22. Natural compounds as insecticides: A novel understanding
23. Natural compounds as pesticide-emerging trends prospects and challenges
24. Natural compounds as herbicides and Nano-formulations
25. Role of natural compounds in metal removing strategies
26. Natural compounds for bioremediation and biodegradation of pesticides
27. Cyclodextrin derived from natural source as an essential component in biopharmaceutical formulation
28. Policies, regulatory requirements and risks in natural product research
Dr. Surya Nandan Meena is currently a DSK PDF at Department of Chemistry, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. Earlier Dr. Meena has secured the National Postdoctoral Fellowship through Department of Science and Technology (DST), India and worked at National Institute of Oceanography, Goa for two years. He has completed his MSc (Agri) Plant Biotechnology from University of Agriculture Sciences, Dharwad, India and Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the Department of Biotechnology, Goa University, Goa India through research fellowship of Department of Biotechnology (DBT). Dr. Meena has more than 5 years of postdoctoral research experience in natural products chemistry which resulted in more than 10 peer reviewed research papers in international journals, three book chapters and editors of two books in Elsevier. Dr. Meena has presented his research work in different national and international conferences. Dr. Vinod Nandre is working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. His postdoctoral work is based on silica extraction from e-waste and rice husk. He has obtained his PhD from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune on the topic of arsenic metabolism in prokaryotic system and arsenic removal from waste. He has 21 international publications and 1 patent based on phosphate removal from industrial waste sample. He also has two book chapters to his credit. He has teaching experience in Medical Biochemistry and industrial experience. Dr. Kisan M. Kodam is Professor of Biochemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. Dr. Kodams research interests are focused on environmental biotechnology. In particular, his research team is working on biodegradation of organic pollutants, arsenic and metal bioremediation. He has 27 years of teaching and research experiences and he has supervised 16 students for their doctoral studies and mentored five postdoctoral fellows. He has published around 100 research publications and 4 book chapters. His citations are 2704 with a h-index of 29. He is also working on biotransformation reactions for synthesis of natural products and cytotoxicity analysis. He has reported two novel bacterial species, namely Alishewanella solinquinati and Microvirga indica isolated from dyes and metal contaminated soils, respectively. His research work has been presented in many international conferences. He has been awarded as Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, India for his valuable contributions in the field of environmental biotechnology. Dr. Meena was born into a farming family and is working in the Department of Agronomy at IAS, BHU, Varanasi. With an excellent academic background, he has been elected a fellow of several academies, including the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), the National Academy of Biological Sciences (NABS), the Indian Society of Agronomy (ISA), and the Society for Rapeseed-Mustard Research (SRMR). The Ministry of Education has also awarded him the Raman Fellowship for the USA under World Food Prize Laureate Prof. Rattan Lal, and he was an INSA visiting scientist at ISARC-IRRI. Additionally, he has been listed among the world's 2% of scientists for his career. He guided 8 PhD, 29 masters and completed 10 externally funded projects from IRRI, IoE-BHU, SERB-DST, ICAR, MOE, and GOI. Dr. He has made significant research contributions to natural resource management and to farm and industrial waste recycling for soil health. Dr. Meena evaluates energy flow, atmospheric CO2 capture, carbon credit and auditing, and eco-friendly techniques for a sustainable food system and soil regeneration, as evidenced by high-impact publications and extension work at the farmer level. He has published extensively, with an H-index of 76, an I-10 index of 222, and 17,250 citations. His work is crucial for understanding the long-term stability of soil carbon, which enhances soil microbial and nutrient dynamics in rice-based diversified cropping systems. He trained farmers from the Deep Forest Tribe to adopt climate-smart practices to secure their livelihoods under the DST-SEED grant project. Dr. Meena has also contributed to the agricultural extension activities in the Honourable Prime Minister of India” villages. His future work aims to reduce soil organic carbon oxidation and enhance its stability in agroecosystems, enabling farmers to benefit from carbon credits and generate additional income.
