Biotechnological strategies for the conservation of medicinal and ornamental climbers, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016

The book provides an overview on adoption of biotechnological approaches for the conservation, micropropagation, synseed production of various medicinal and ornamental climbers. The work includes a brief chapter on evolution and diversification of climbers. Other chapters give insights on protocols for in vitro propagation and synseed production of selected threatened medicinal and ornamental climbers. Informative chapter on the production of bioactive compound and their enhancement through genetic transformation and elicitation have been incorporated to cover latest advancement in the field of plant biotechnology. This book also explores the use of molecular marker technique for the desired improvement/magnification of medicinal and aesthetic value of climbing plants.

1: Climbers: Evolution and Diversification in Angiosperm
1.1    Introduction
1.2    Climbing habitat
1.3    Climbing and attachment mechanisms
1.4    Types of climber
1.5    General taxonomy of climbing plants
1.6    Some general properties of climbing plants
1.7    Role of climbers in ecosystem
1.8    Climber’s evolution
1.9    How long ago were climbing plants common in forested ecosystems? 

2: Biodiversity Conservation with Special Reference to Medicinal Climbers: Present Scenario, Challenges, Strategies and Policies
2.1 Biodiversity: Natural Capital of The Earth
2.2 Types of Biodiversity (Diversity Indices)

3: Medicinal Importance of Climbers Used In Unani System of Medicine
3.1   Introduction
3.2   Ghonghchi
3.3   Zaravand Taweel
3.4   Zaravand Modahraj
3.5   

4: Climber Plants: Medicinal Importance and Conservation Strategies
4.1  Introduction
4.2  History
4.3  Habitat and Distribution
4.4  Medicinal Application and Drug Discovery
4.5  Threats
4.6  Conservation Strategies
4.7  Role of Biotechnology on Their Conservation
4.8  Some Selected Climbing Plant Families
4.9  Conclusion

5: Plant Tissue Culture: Profile of Pioneers
5.1  Introduction
5.2  History of Plant Tissue Culture
5.3  Profile of Pioneers 

6: Mircopropagation: A Boon for Conservation of Valuable Vines and Lianas
6.1    Introduction
6.2   

7: Somatic Embryogenesis: A Valuable Strategy for Phyto-Climbing Diversity Conservation
7.1    Introduction
7.2    Terminology
7.3    Zygotic embryogenesis versus somatic embryogenesis
7.4    Different phases of somatic embryogenesis
7.5    Factors affecting somatic embryogenesis
7.6    Important genes related to somatic embryogenesis
7.7    Applications of somatic

8: Biotechnological Perspectives towards Improvement of Decalepishamiltonii, Potential Applications of Its tubers And Bioactive Compounds of Nutraceuticals for Value Addition
8.1     Introduction
8.2     Ethnobotanical information
8.3     Production
8.4     Phytoconstituents of tubers
8.5     Biotechnological intervention for mass multiplication
8.6     Germination studies
8.7     In vitro propagation methods
8.8     In vitro production of flavour metabolite 2H4MB
8.9     Augmentation of flavour metabolite in tubers
8.10   Applications of tubers
8.11   Other applications
8.12   Insecticidal activity
8.13   Antimicrobial activity
8.14   Medicinal applications
8.15   Bioactivity studies in cell cultures and experimental animals
8.16  

9: Tylophora indica (Burm. f.) Merrill: Medicinal Uses, Propagation and Replenishment
9.1  Introduction: Vernacular Names, Habitat, Habit, Taxonomy
9.2  Chemical Constituents
9.3  Medicinal Properties
9.4  Plant Tissue Culture Studies

10: In Vitro Strategies for the Conservation of Some Medicinal and Horticultural Climbers
10.1      Introduction
10.1.1   Cardiospermumhalicacabum Linn
10.1.2   BenincasahispidaCogn.
10.1.3. TylophoraindicaBurm. f. Merrill.
10.1.4   SarcostemmabrevistigmaWight.
10.1.5   CycleapeltataLam.
10.1.6   Caesalpiniabonduc (L.)Roxb.
10.1.7   Clitoriaternatea L.
10.1.8   HemidesmusindicusL. R. Br.
10.1.9   Momordicacharantia L.
10.1.10

13: Basic Principles behind Genetic Transformation in Plants
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Methods of Genetic Transformation
13.3 Gene Expression in Transgenic Plants
13.4 Engineering Plants for Useful Agronomic Traits

14: Genetic Transformation for Quality Improvement of Ornamental Climbers
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Type Study
14.3 Future Prospects
14.3 Conclusion 

15: Advances in Molecular Approaches for the Integrative Genetic Transformation of Highly Important Climbers
15.1      Introduction
15.2      Future Prospects and Conclusion

16: Molecular Markers and their Applications in Plant Biotechnology
16.1      Molecular Markers: An Introduction
16.2      Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP)
16.3      Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA Markers (RAPD)
16.4      Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP)
16.5      Inter Simple Sequence

18: Selective Protocols for In Vitro Propagation of Threatened Medicinal Climbers
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Climber
18.3 Importance of Ornamental Plants
18.4 Plant Tissue Culture
18.5 Advancement in Production of Secondary Metabolites via Plant Tissue Culture
18.6 Conclusions       

19: In Vitro Protocols for Ornamental Climbers
19.1 Introduction
19.2 Type Studies
19.3 Concluding Remarks and Future Prospects 

20: Contribution of Biotechnology in the Enhancement of Secondary Metabolites in Selected Medicinal Climbers
20.1 Introduction
20.2 Biotechnological Tools
20.3 Medicinal Climbers and Use of Biotechnological

Provides up-to-date information on the application of biotechnological tools to explore the potentials of climbers

The chapters on micropropagation, synthetic seed production and bioactive compounds production in vitro are of great significance in the conservation and replenishment strategies, as well as for the pharmaceutical and micropropagation industries

The information on the use of molecular markers in quality assessment and transgenic plant production provide a platform for further advance research

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras