1. This book will provide an insight into the recent advancement in research on hairy roots and their utility.2. It aims at providing readers the conceptual knowledge on the hairy roots and their applications.3. The book advocate hairy roots as attractive bio-production systems with several advantages over field-grown plants, suspensions and microbial systems.4. Provide better understanding of the biochemical machinery of roots and will offer more sophisticated scientific solutions.

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Dr Vikas Srivastava is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Botany, Central University of Jammu, India. He completed his joint PhD at the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow) and Lucknow University, India. Further, he completed his postdoctorate from the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India. He has published numerous articles for books and prominent international journals and has been a Principal Investigator for major projects sanctioned by the University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi. In addition, he is a recipient of various awards and prestigious fellowships.

Dr Shakti Mehrotra received her joint PhD from the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow) and Lucknow University, India. Further, she completed her postdoctorate at the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow (DBT-PDF) and CSIR-CIMAP (DST-Young Scientist). She has published several articles and book chapters and worked as a Principal Investigator for major projects sanctioned by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India. Her contributions have been recognized with various awards and fellowships.

Dr Sonal Mishra is a SERB-National Post Doc Fellow (SERB-NPDF) at the School of Biotechnology, University of Jammu, India. She received her joint PhD from the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Further, she completed her postdoctorate at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), India. She has published in many books and prominent international journals, and is currently a Principal investigator for a major project sanctioned by SERB (Science and Engineering Research Board), India. She has received various awards and fellowships in the course of her career.

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The growing scale of plant-based chemicals for industrial use has generated considerable interest in developing methods to meet their desired production levels. Among various available strategies for their production, the development of Agrobacterium rhizogenes mediated hairy root cultures (HRCs) is generally considered the most feasible approach. Additionally, several proof-of-principle experiments have demonstrated the practical feasibility of HRCs in the plant-based remediation of environment pollutants, biotransformation of important compounds, and production of therapeutic proteins.Given that hairy root biotechnology has now been recognized as a promising and highly dynamic research area, this book offers a timely update on recent advances, and approaches hairy roots as a multifaceted biological tool for various applications. Further, it seeks to investigate the loopholes in existing methodologies, identify remaining challenges and find potential solutions by presenting well thought-out scientific discussions from various eminent research groups working on hairy root biotechnology.

This book provides detailed conceptual and practical information on HRC-based research, along with relevant case studies. The content is divided into three broad sections, namely (i) Hairy Roots and Secondary Metabolism, (ii) Progressive Applications, and (iii) Novel Approaches and Future Prospects. By informing the research and teaching community about the major strides made in HRC-based interventions in plant biology and their applications, the book is sure to spark further research in this fascinating field.

Inhalt

Part I: Hairy Roots and Secondary Metabolism.- Progress and Prospects of Hairy Root Research.- A Critical Review on Biotechnological Interventions for Production and Yield Enhancement of Secondary Metabolites in Hairy Root Cultures.- pRi-Transformed Plants as a Source of Secondary Metabolites.- Biotechnological Intervention of Hairy Roots of Tropane Alkaloid Bearing Plants.- Hairy Root Cultures for Monoterpene Indole Alkaloid Pathway: Investigation and Biotechnological Production.- Stress Induced Metabolite Production Utilizing Plant Hairy Roots.- Bioreactor Design and Analysis for Large Scale Plant Cell and Hairy Root Cultivation.- Part II: Progressive Applications. - Hairy Root Mediated Biotransformation: Recent Advances and Exiting Prospect.- Hairy Roots as Bioreactors for the Production of Biopharmaceuticals.- Phytoremediation of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Utilizing Transgenic Hairy Root Cultures: Past and Future Perspectives.- Use of Hairy Root System to study Signalling Pathways During Nodule Formation.- Hairy Roots as a Tool for the Functional Analysis of Plant Genes.- Part III: Novel Approaches and Future Prospects.- An Update on Transcriptome Sequencing of Hairy Root Cultures of Medicinally Important Plants.- Strategies for Monitoring and Modeling Growth of Hairy Root Cultures: An in Silico Perspective.- Engineering in Hairy Roots using CRISPR/Cas9 Mediated Editing.