Anticancer Plants: Natural Products and Biotechnological Implements

Chapter 1. Fungal Endophytes as Novel Sources of Anticancer Compounds.- Chapter 2. Gastrointestinal Bezoar Stones: Current Knowledge and Future Pperspective on the Potential of Plant-derived Phytobezoar in Cancer Treatment.- Chapter 3. Potential of Natural Products for Prevention of Oral Cancer.- Chapter 4. Therapeutic Potential of Cardiac Glycosides Against Cancer.- Chapter 5. Conserving Biodiversity of a Potent Anticancer Plant, Catharanthus roseus Through In vitro Biotechnological Intercessions: Substantial Progress and Imminent Prospects.- Chapter 6. Medicinal Plants as a Potential Source of Chemopreventive Agents.- Chapter 7. Plant Metabolites as New Leads to Anticancer Drug Discovery: Approaches and Challenges.- Chapter 8. Terpenes of Genus Salvia: Cytotoxicity and Antitumoral Effects.- Chapter 9. Essential Oil with Anticancer Activity: An Overview.- Chapter 10. Fungal Endophytes from Anticancer Plants as Producers of the Anti-tumour Agent L-Asparaginase: A Look at Diversity, Ubiquity and Enzyme Production.- Chapter 11. Xylooligosaccharides and their Anticancer Potential: An Update.- Chapter 12. Phytochemicals Targeting Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress to Inhibit Cancer Cell Proliferation.- Chapter 13. Remedy of Targeting Cancer andCcancer Stem Cells with Botanicals.- Chapter 14. Therapeutic Strategies of Natural Agents and its Components on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.- Chapter 15. Endophytic Microbes as a Novel Source for Producing Anticancer Compounds as Multidrug Resistance Modulators. Chapter 16. Traditional Medicinal Plants and their Therapeutic Potential Against Major Cancer Types.- Chapter 17. Platelet Derived Growth Factor Receptor (PDGF-R) as the Target for Herbal Based Anticancer Agents.- Chapter 18. Plant Cell and Organ Culture as an Alternative for the Production of Anticancer Compounds.- Chapter 19. Plant Derived Extracts and Compounds: An Alternative Therapy Against Breast Cancer.- Chapter 20. Micropropagation and Conservation of Selected

Dr. Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, is working as a Assistant Professor in Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, U.P., India. He has received his PhD degree from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India in 2008. He has conducted his postdoctoral research at the Botanical Institute, University of Basel (BIB), Switzerland (2008-2010) and Chonbuk National University (CBNU), Republic of Korea in 2011, respectively, and also works Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Jimma university, Jimma, Ethiopia form 2011-2014, and Fellow Researcher UDQ9 at the Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia (2014-2015). Dr. Akhtar has 14 years of research and 8 years teaching experience in Soil Microbiology, Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Plant Pathology and Plant Nano-biotechnology. Dr. Akhtar has received several prestigious fellowships at National and International levels till date. His promising approach and dedication stands him in the row of foremost scientist in the field of Plant-Microbe Interaction and Plant Nano-biotechnology. He is author and co-author of more than hundred articles in peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in the books published by Springer-Verlag and also edited 6 books with international publishers. He is serving the scientific community as editorial board member and reviewer of several high impact international Journals. His current research is focused on the rhizospheric plant-microbe interactions and their molecular biotechnology, bioremediation, biomineralization, nanofertilizers and Nanobiotechnology.

Dr. Mallappa Kumara Swamy, is presently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Dr. Swamy has obtained his PhD (Biotechnology) from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India in