Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials

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.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, Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials 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.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. Details plant peptides as major bio-molecule and their biochemical aspectsIdentifies different purification, characterization and fingerprinting procedures of plant peptidesExplores the importance of peptides in plant growthHighlights role of peptides as herbal products especially as Pharma- and Nutra-ceuticals