Natural Bioactive Compounds: Technological Advancements

Natural Bioactive Compounds: Technological Advancements deals with the latest breakthroughs in the field of screening, characterization and novel applications of natural bioactive compounds from diverse group of organisms ranging from bacteria, viruses, cyanobacteria, algae, fungi, bryophytes, higher plants, sponges, corals and fishes. Written by some of the most reputed scientists in the field, this book introduces the reader to strategies and methods in the search for bioactive natural products. It is an essential read for researchers and students interested in bioactive natural products, their biological and pharmacological properties, their possible use as chemopreventive or chemotherapeutic agents, and other future potential applications.

Explores natural sources of bioactive compounds, including cyanobacteria, bacteria, viruses, fungi and higher plantsDiscusses the potential applications of biological products, such as their use in medicine (antibiotics, cancer research, immunology), as food additives, supplements and technological substancesAnalyzes the contributions of emerging or developing technologies for the study of bioactive natural compounds (characterization and purification)

1. Introduction
2. Bioactive compounds from bacteria and viruses
3. Advances in phycobiliproteins research: Innovations and commercialization
4. Cyanobacterial photoprotective compounds: Characterization and utilization in human welfare
5. Bionanotechnology of cyanobacterial bioactive compounds
6. Bioactive molecules from microalgae and constraints in commercialization
7. Strategies of overproduction of lipids and fine chemicals from commercially important microalgae
8. Biotechnological Exploitation of Macroalgae
9. Algal compounds to fight human diseases such as Alzheimer’s dementia and cancer
10. Bioactive compounds and their future therapeutic applications
11. Novel Biotechnological Substances from Bryophytes
12. Biotechnological Substances in Lichens
13. Bioactive Compounds in Fungi
14. Novel Biotechnological Substances in Higher Plants
15. New perspectives of the Artemisia annua bioactive compounds as an affordable cure in treatment of malaria and cancer
16. Pesticidal efficacy of plant bioactive compounds: An overview
17. Marine Sponges: Source of Novel Biotechnological Substances
18. Biotechnological Compounds from Corals
19. Bioactive Compounds from Fish
20. Advances in extraction technologies-Isolation and purification of bioactive compounds from biological materials