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Emerging trends in medicinal plant biotechnology / Rajesh Arora -- Medicinal compounds produced in plant cell factories / Suvi T. H�kkinen and Anneli Ritala -- Biotechnological characterization of different populations of an endangered medicinal herb- Podophyllum hexandrum Royle / Hemant Lata and Suman Chandra -- Traditional and biotechnological strategies for conservation of Podophyllum hexandrum Royle / Amit C. Kharkwal ... [et al.] -- Microsatellite markers: potential and opportunities in medicinal plants / Atul Grover, Ankit Jain and P.C. Sharma -- In vitro-propagation of medicinal plants for conservation and quality assurance / Chris Wawrosch -- Propagation of elite Cannabis sativa L. for the production of 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) using biotechnological tools / Suman Chandra ... [et al.] -- In vitro saponin production in plant cell and tissue cultures / Archana Mathur and Ajay K. Mathur -- Podophyllotoxin and related lignans: biotechnological production by in vitro plant cell cultures / Iliana Ionkova -- Hairy root culture: copying nature in new bioprocesses / M. Georgiev, Jutta Ludwig-M�ller and Thomas Bley -- Genetic transformation of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don. for augmenting secondary metabolite production / Rajesh Arora ... [et al.] -- Podophyllum endophytic fungi / John R. Porter -- Biotechnology of Vinca major and Vinca minor / Rajesh Arora ... [et al.] -- Analytical platforms and databases ranging from plant transcriptomics to metabolomics / Tetsuya Sakurai, Kenji Akiyama and Kazuki Saito -- Docking-based virtual screening of anticancer drugs / Feroze Khan, Abha Meena and Ashok Sharma -- Population structure and molecular characterization of Podophyllum hexandrum of the northwestern Himalayas / Pradeep K. Naik, Shri Ram and Harvinder Singh -- Plant virus vector systems for the production and delivery of biopharmaceuticals / Rofina Yasmin Othman, Noor Hasima Nagoor -- Novel medicinal plants for the production and delivery of vaccines / Simone Reichwein and H. Warzecha -- Noscapinoids: a new class of anti-cancer drugs demand biotechnological intervention / Harish C. Joshi ... [et al.] -- Recent developments in chemistry and biotechnology of Podophyllum / Abha Chaudhary, Bikram Singh and Paramvir Singh Ahuja -- Plant-derived recombinant Griffithsin: a protein with potent broad spectrum inhibitory effects against enveloped viruses / J. Calvin Kouokam and Kenneth E. Palmer -- Camptothecins: SAR, QSAR, and biotechnology / Rajeshwar P. Verma.