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880-01 Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Medicinal Plants: Ethno-Uses to Biotechnology Era; Historical Background; Ethnomedicines Uses of Herbs Between the Past and the Present; Ancient Times; In Egypt; In Greece; In China; In India; Middle Ages; Arabic Achievements in Herbal Medicine; Modern Era; Early Modern Era; Turning Points in the Use of Medicinal Plants; Importance of Medicinal Plants Has Increased Recently ... Why?; Why the Need Arises to Search for New Sources of Drugs?; Economic Returns for the Use of Medicinal Plants.

Chapter 2: How Plants Can Contribute to the Supply of Anticancer Compounds Introduction; Plant Secondary Metabolites as Anticancer Drugs; Natural Sources of Plant Metabolites with Anticancer Activity; Production of Small-Molecule Anticancer Compounds in Plants; Protein-Based Anticancer Compounds from Plants; Anticancer Activity of Lectins; Recombinant Protein Expression in Plants; Benefits and Challenges; Product Recovery and Purification; Process Design and Monitoring; Transgenic Plants and the Potential Large-Scale Production of Anticancer Compounds.

How to Use the Herbal Medicines? Awareness in the Use of Medicinal Plants; Regulation and Legislation of Herbal Medicines; Medicinal Plants Were Used Traditionally to Heal from Cancer: Why? and How?; Why People Use Herbal Medicine with Cancer?; Medicinal Plants: Cancer Remedies Between the Past and the Present; Herbal Medicines: Traditional Treatment of Cancer Worldwide; New Vision of Medicinal Plants by Biotechnological Lenses; How Will the Medicinal Plants Be Drugs?; Background of Knowledge; Plant Selection; Preparation and Isolation of Bioactive Substances.

The Need of Pharmacological Validation Benefits of Applying Biotechnology in Medicinal Plants; Why It Has Increased the Need to Apply Biotechnology to Medicinal Plants?; What Are the Advantages of Applied Biotechnological Techniques?; Trace Medicinal Plants from Field to Fork by Biotech Approaches ... Is It Possible?; Determine the Geographical Origin of Herbal Materials Is Vital Requirement ... Why?; Current Techniques Used for Determining the Origin of Medicinal Plants; PCR-DGGE: Innovative Biological Barcode of Medicinal Plants; Conclusion and Future Prospects; References.

This book discusses cancers and the resurgence of public interest in plant-based and herbal drugs. It also describes ways of obtaining anti-cancer drugs from plants and improving their production using biotechnological techniques. It presents methods such as cell culture, shoot and root culture, hairy root culture, purification of plant raw materials, genetic engineering, optimization of culture conditions as well as metabolic engineering with examples of successes like taxol, shikonin, ingenol mebutate and podophylotoxin. In addition, it describes the applications and limitations of large-scale production of anti-cancer compounds using biotechnological means. Lastly, it discusses future economical and eco-friendly strategies for obtaining anti-cancer compounds using biotechnology.