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Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials

A Comprehensive Guide

  • 1st Edition - March 3, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Abhijit Sarkar, Pardeep Singh, Randeep Rakwal, Ganesh Kumar Agrawal
  • Language: English

Exploring Plant Peptide Potentials offers an in-depth overview of the latest research on these functional molecules, emphasizing their diverse biological roles and growing relev… Read more

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Description

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Researchers and academics in plant biochemistry and physiology. Advanced-level students in plant biochemistry and physiology, food and agricultural science, environmental science, toxicology.

Table of contents

1. Peptides: fascinating, unique, and universal molecules with incredible potentials

2. Peptides: through the looking glass of past discoveries

3. Modern methods to isolate, characterize, and purify bioactive peptides

4. Peptide hormones: key regulators of growth, development, and stress response in plants

5. Plant antimicrobial peptides

6. Plant-based antifungal peptides: novel therapeutic compounds against emerging fungal pathogens

7. Crosstalk of peptides for communications in plants

8. Plant-based bioactive peptides: pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and herbal drugs

9. Harnessing nanostructures for the delivery of plant antimicrobial peptides

10. Emerging applications of nanotechnology for enhancing the efficacy of plant-based peptides

11. Algal peptides: diversity, roles, relation to plant peptide science, and applications in crop improvement

12. Plant-derived peptides and their emerging applications in agricultural biotechnology

13. Plant peptides involved in reactive oxygen species signaling and biotic and abiotic stress

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 10, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Abhijit Sarkar

Dr. Abhijit Sarkar is currently an assistant professor of botany at the University of Gour Banga (India). He holds a BSc (Hons.) and an MSc in botany (with specialization in plant physiology, biochemistry, and plant molecular biology) from the University of Calcutta (India) and a PhD in Botany from Banaras Hindu University (India). Dr. Sarkar's research work encompasses air pollution and its effects on plant biology and human health, including ozone, heat, UV radiation (natural and manmade), plant pathogens, with close collaborators in Japan, South Korea, Nepal, United States, Italy, and India.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Applied Stress Biology, Department of Botany, University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal, India

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Pardeep Singh

Dr. Pardeep Singh is presently working as an assistant professor at the Department of Environment Studies, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, India. He obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science at Banaras Hindu University, India in 2011 and then his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), India, in 2017. He has published more than 35 papers in international journals in the field of waste management and co-edited over 30 books with various publishers.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

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Randeep Rakwal

Professor Randeep Rakwal is a professor at the University of Tsukuba (Japan), at the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences. His major research interests in plant environmental stress biology are jasmonic acid, ozone, heat, radiations, plant pathogens using “omics” approaches, with close collaborators in Japan, South Korea, Nepal, USA, Italy, Australia and India. He is one of the founding members of the International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

GA

Ganesh Kumar Agrawal

Ganesh Kumar Agrawal is the Associate Director of RLABB, a nonprofit research organization focusing on biotechnology and biochemistry in Kathmandu, Nepal. Dr. Agrawal is a multidisciplinary scientist focused on food security and human nutrition using high-throughput and targeted omics techniques. He has edited a comprehensive “Plant Proteomics: Technologies, Strategies, and Applications” book (John Wiley & Sons, NY, USA). He holds a PhD in Applied Biological Chemistry from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Japan). He is an initiator of the International Plant Proteomics Organization (InPPO).
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Director, Research Laboratory for Agricultural Biotechnology and Biochemistry (RLABB), Kathmandu, Nepal

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