Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials

A Comprehensive Guide
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-443-15652-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials offers an in-depth overview of the latest research on these functional molecules, emphasizing their diverse biological roles and growing relevance across disciplines. The book brings together insights into their discovery, mechanisms, and applications to deepen understanding and inspire future research.

Plant peptides are key regulators of growth, development, defense, and stress responses, and they show considerable promise in pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and herbal medicine applications. The volume spans topics from peptide identification and imaging to signaling pathways, molecular interactions, and bioinformatics approaches. It also covers both conventional and advanced tools in peptide science, including post-translational modifications, peptide mimicry, and innovations in nanotechnology and biotechnology.

Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials is a valuable resource for researchers and professionals in plant biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology, and biotechnology, as well as those developing plant-derived health and therapeutic products.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sarkar, Abhijit

Singh, Pardeep

Rakwal, Randeep

Agrawal, Ganesh Kumar

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Zellbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Peptides: a fascinating, unique, and universal molecule with incredible potentials
2. Peptides: through the looking glass of past discoveries
3. Modern methods to isolate, characterize, and purify bioactive peptides
4. Peptide hormones: key regulators of growth, development, and stress response in plants
5. Plant antimicrobial peptides
6. Plant-based antifungal peptides: novel therapeutic compounds against emerging fungal pathogens
7. Crosstalk of peptides for communications in plants
8. Plant-based bioactive peptides: pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and herbal drugs
9. Harnessing nanostructures for the delivery of plant antimicrobial peptides
10. Emerging applications of nanotechnology for enhancing the efficacy of plant-based peptides
11. Algal peptides: diversity, roles, relation to plant peptide science, and applications in crop improvement
12. Plant-derived peptides and their emerging applications in agricultural biotechnology
13. Plant peptides involved in reactive oxygen species signaling and biotic and abiotic stress

Über Autor(innen)

Sarkar, Abhijit
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.

Singh, Pardeep
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.