Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials

A Comprehensive Guide

Abhijit Sarkar, Pardeep Singh, Randeep Rakwal, Ganesh Kumar Agrawal

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443156533
• Subtopic: Botany
• Index: Biological Sciences

Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials offers an in-depth overview of the latest research on these functional molecules, emphasizing their diverse biological roles and growing relevance across disciplines. The book brings together insights into their discovery, mechanisms, and applications to deepen understanding and inspire future research.Plant peptides are key regulators of growth, development, defense, and stress responses, and they show considerable promise in pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and herbal medicine applications. The volume spans topics from peptide identification and imaging to signaling pathways, molecular interactions, and bioinformatics approaches. It also covers both conventional and advanced tools in peptide science, including post-translational modifications, peptide mimicry, and innovations in nanotechnology and biotechnology.Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials is a valuable resource for researchers and professionals in plant biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology, and biotechnology, as well as those developing plant-derived health and therapeutic products. - Covers both classical and modern peptide purification and imaging techniques, equipping researchers with tools for precise identification and characterization - Explains peptide-driven signaling in development, stress response, and inter-organism communication, supporting advanced study in plant physiology and molecular biology - Connects peptide science to applied innovation in biotechnology and nanotechnology, offering inspiration for translational research in food, pharma, and agriculture sectors

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1 Peptides: fascinating, unique, and universal molecules with incredible potentials
• Chapter 2 Peptides: through the looking glass of past discoveries
• Chapter 3 Modern methods to isolate, characterize, and purify bioactive peptides
• Chapter 4 Peptide hormones: key regulators of growth, development, and stress response in plants
• Chapter 5 Plant antimicrobial peptides
• Chapter 6 Plant-based antifungal peptides: novel therapeutic compounds against emerging fungal pathogens
• Chapter 7 Crosstalk of peptides for communications in plants
• Chapter 8 Plant-based bioactive peptides: pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and herbal drugs
• Chapter 9 Harnessing nanostructures for the delivery of plant antimicrobial peptides
• Chapter 10 Emerging applications of nanotechnology for enhancing the efficacy of plant-based peptides
• Chapter 11 Algal peptides: diversity, roles, relation to plant peptide science, and applications in crop improvement
• Chapter 12 Plant-derived peptides and their emerging applications in agricultural biotechnology
• Chapter 13 Plant peptides involved in reactive oxygen species signaling and biotic and abiotic stress
• Index