Vol. 10, Issue 5 (2021)

Author(s):
Sharwan Kumar Shukla, Ashutosh Singh, Abhishek Kumar, Gaurav Sharma, Prabhat Tiwari, Rakesh Kumar, Anshuman Singh, Ashutosh Kumar, Sundarpal and AK Pandey

Abstract:
It is well known that plants on the earth are natural source of bioactive compounds. Ancient health system describes diverse group of plant species with their medicinal and therapeutic properties. Plant derived pharmaceutical molecules are the turning to use traditional medicinal systems because phytochemicals are potent source of polyphenols, alkaloids, steroids, vitamins and minerals. However, diverse species of plants on the earth may be exploited to biosynthesized bioactive molecules, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and other biologically active polymers for the sustainable and commercial exploitation. Plant derived molecules are converted into committed pharmaceuticals, drugs, antioxidants, feed, food, bio-fuels for the multidimensional industrial processing. In addition to produce large scale pharmaceutically important molecules, several plant biotechnological and genetic approaches are employed to increase the potential and applicability of the plant derived biomolecules for commercialization. We present an overview about the novel studies, issues and importance of plant derived biomolecules and naturally occurring metabolites.