Natural Bio-active Compounds

Chapter 1. Production and Application of Novel of Bio-active Compounds by Endophytic Microbes.- Chapter 2. Endophytes - The Unmapped Repository For Natural Products.- Chapter 3. Microbial Hosts as a Promising Platform for Polyphenols Production.- Chapter 4. Endolichenic fungi From Common Lichens as New Sources for Valuable Bio-active Compounds.- Chapter 5. Strategic Approaches for the Purification of Glycosides from Natural Sources.- Chapter 6. Natural Products-Based Pancreatic Lipase Inhibitors for Obesity Treatment.- Chapter 7. Natural compounds extracted from medicinal plants and their applications.- Chapter 8. Seed Oils as a Source of Natural Bioactive Compounds.- Chapter 9. Essential Oils Extracted from Medicinal Plants and their Applications.- Chapter 10. Cellulose-based hydrogels: Present and Future.- Chapter 11. Influence of Elicitors and Eustressors on the Production of Plant Secondary Metabolites .- Chapter 12. KRAS as potential target in colorectal cancer therapy.- Chapter 13. Recent insights on the anticancer properties of flavonoids: Prospective candidates for cancer chemoprevention and therapy.- Chapter 14. Natural Compounds Extracted from Moringa oleifera and their Agricultural Applications.- Chapter 15. Natural compound from genus Brassica and their therapeutical activities.- Chapter 16. Antibacterial and Antifungal Agents of Higher Plants.- Chapter 17. Bio-active Compounds Isolated from Neem tree and their Applications .- Chapter 18. Role of Plant Secondary Metabolites as Antidiabetic Agents.- Chapter 19. Plant metabolites and Pharmacological activities of Leptadenia pyrotechnica (Forssk.) Decne.- Chapter 20. Functioning of Organosulfur Compounds from Garlic (Allium sativum Linn) in targeting risk factors mediated Atherosclerosis: A Crosstalk between Alternative and Modern Medicine.- Chapter 21. Biological activities and nutritional value of Physalis peruviana L.- Chapter 22. Yield, Chemical Composition and Biological Evaluation of theEssential Oil

Dr. Mohd Sayeed Akhtar (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, UP, India. He received his PhD degree from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India in 2008, prior to conducting post-doctoral research at the Botanical Institute, University of Basel (BIB), Switzerland (2008-2010), and at Chonbuk National University (CBNU), Republic of Korea in 2011. He was an Assistant Professor at Jimma University, Ethiopia (2011-2014), and a fellow researcher at the Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), (2014-2015). Dr. Akhtar has more than 15 years of research and 10 years of teaching experience in soil microbiology, applied microbiology, environmental microbiology, molecular biology, plant pathology and plant nanobiotechnology. He has authored or co-authored more than one hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters, and has edited 10 books with international publishers. Further, he serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for several high-impact international journals. His current research is focused on rhizospheric plant-microbe interactions and molecular biotechnology, bioremediation, biomineralization, nano-fertilizers and nanobiotechnology. 

Dr. Mallappa Kumara Swamy (PhD) is a Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology at East West College of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He completed his postdoctoral research at the Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Before that, he had worked as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology, Padmashree Institute of Management and Sciences, Bangalore University, Bengaluru, India. He received his PhD (Biotechnology) from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India in 2013. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience in the fields of plant biotechnology,