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: 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. 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.

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, this book 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sarkar, Abhijit

Singh, Pardeep

Rakwal, Randeep

Agrawal, Ganesh Kumar

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Zellbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Singh, Pardeep
Pardeep Singh is Professor and Head at the School of Advanced Chemical Sciences, Shoolini University, Solan, India. He is specialized in physical chemistry and heads a lab of research scholars who work on photocatalysis with the aim of generating new knowledge on graphene-based photocatalytic materials and processes to develop novel de-pollution treatments with enhanced efficiency and pilot-scale applicability. He is also exploring the generation of bio-waste material-based activated carbon for adsorption-based removal of aqueous phase pollutants.

Sarkar, Abhijit
Dr. Abhijit Sarkar is currently an Assistant Professor of Botany at the University of Gour Banga (India). He did his B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. in Botany (with specialization in Plant Physiology, Biochemistry and Plant Molecular Biology) from University of Calcutta (India), and Ph.D. in Botany from Banaras Hindu University (India) in 2012. Dr. Sarkar has major research interests in air pollution and its effect on plant biology and human health including ozone, heat, UV radiation (natural and man-made), plant pathogens with close collaborators in Japan, South Korea, Nepal, USA, Italy, and India.