Bio-farms for nutraceuticals
Subtitle: functional food and safety control by biosensors
By: edited by Maria Teresa Giardi, Giuseppina Rea, Bruno Berra
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 698; Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 698.
Publisher: Landes Bioscience; Springer Science+Business Media
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin, Tex; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781441973467
Subjects: Functional Food; Functional foods; Food Additives; Food; Biosensors; Food Handling; Biosensing Techniques; Food Technology; Biotechnology; Health Food
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Nutra-Snacks project : basic research and biotechnological programs on nutraceutics / Giuseppina Rea ... [et al.]; title: Overview of diet-gene interactions and the example of xanthophylls / Barbara Demmig-Adams and William W. Adams III; title: Therapeutic potential of dietary polyphenols against brain ageing and neurodegenerative disorders / Giovanni Scapagnini, Calogero Caruso, and Vittorio Calabrese; title: Plant phenolics in the prevention and treatment of cancer / Klaus W.J. Wahle ... [et al.]; title: Endogenous antioxidants and radical scavengers / Angela Maria Rizzo ... [et al.]; title: A nutritional strategy for reducing disease and obesity risks / Teresa Lavecchia ... [et al.]; title: Dietary phytochemicals and human health / Justyna Krzyzanowska, Anna Czubacka, and Wieslaw Oleszek; title: Bioactive compounds from northern plants / Anja Hohtola; title: Nutraceutical use of garlic sulfur-containing compounds / Eleftherios Touloupakis and Demetrios F. Ghanotakis; title: Genetic engineering to enhance crop-based phytonutrients (nutraceuticals) to alleviate diet-related diseases / Autar K. Mattoo ... [et al.]; title: Perspective for the use of genetic transformants in order to enhance the synthesis of the desired metabolites : engineering chloroplasts of microalgae for the production of bioactive compounds / Udo Johanningmeier and Dirk Fischer; title: Biological elicitors of plant secondary metabolites : mode of action and use in the production of nutraceutics / Simone Ferrari; title: Hairy root cultures for secondary metabolites production / Laura Pistelli ... [et al.]; title: Plant tissue culture : an opportunity for the production of nutraceuticals / Mariella Lucchesini and Anna Mensuali-Sodi; title: Plant cell cultures : bioreactors for industrial production / Barbara Ruffoni ... [et al.]; title: Determination of the antioxidants' ability to scavenge free radicals using biosensors / Montserrat Cortina-Puig ... [et al.]; title: Biosensors for the determination of phenolic metabolites / Simona Carmen Litescu, Sandra Eremia, and Gabriel Lucian Radu; title: Methods for the determination of antioxidant capacity in food and raw materials / Simona Carmen Litescu, Sandra Eremia, and Gabriel Lucian Radu; title: Analytical methods for the extraction and identification of secondary metabolite production in 'in vitro' plant cell cultures / Alessandra Bertoli ... [et al.]; title: Biosensors for functional food safety and analysis / Teresa Lavecchia, Arianna Tibuzzi, and Maria Teresa Giardi; title: Biosensors for secondary metabolites, two case studies : ochratoxin a and microcystin / Monica Campàs, Beatriz Prieto-Simón And Régis Rouillon; title: Biosensors as analytical tools in food fermentation industry / Lise Barthelmebs ... [et al.]; title: An overview of the functional food market : from marketing issues and commercial players to future demand from life in space / Francesca Vergari, Arianna Tibuzzi, and Giovanni Basile; title: Legislation on nutraceuticals and food supplements a comparison between regulations in USA and EU / Roberto Giunta, Giovanni Basile, and Arianna Tibuzzi.