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Pharmacognosy broadly covers the study of medicinal plants. Through diverse specialized pathways plants produce a wealth of phytochemicals often termed as natural products or specialized metabolites, many of which are useful to us as drugs, dye, flavouring agents, and nutraceuticals. Advances in our understanding of the biosynthetic pathways ledto cloning of genes encoding many of the important biosynthetic enzymes of these complex pathways.It may now be possible to design strategies to alter biosynthetic routes leading to enhanced production of desired products of pharmaceutical importance. This has been termed as metabolic engineering. This course provides knowledge about the various types of specialized metabolites such as alkaloids, phenolics and terpenoids thatare synthesized by plants through specific metabolic pathways.The principal focus would beon thebiotechnological approaches that can be used to increase or manipulate the production ofthese commercially important compounds mainly through the application of metabolic engineering strategies.
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VTU is one of the largest Technological Universities in India with 24 years of Tradition of excellence in Engineering & Technical Education, Research and Innovations. It came into existence in the year 1998 to cater the needs of Indian industries for trained technical manpower with practical experience and sound theoretical knowledge.
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Course Duration11 h 22 m 34 s
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Course LevelBasic
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LanguageEnglish
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