Photoprotective Green Pharmacology: Challenges, Sources and Future Applications

Vinod K. Kannaujiya is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Botany, MMV, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Rajeshwar P. Sinha, DAAD Fellowship Awardee and Fellow, Society for Applied Biotechnology, India, is a professor of Molecular Biology, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India. Md. Akhlaqur Rahman has completed his DPhil in Biotechnology from the University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, India. He is presently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Biotechnology, SS Khanna Girls’ Degree College, Prayagraj, India.  Shanthy Sundaram has completed her PhD in Microbiology from the Department of Microbiology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India. She is presently working as a professor and coordinator, Centre of Biotechnology, University of Allahabad, India.

• Chapter 1: Radiation biology: historical background, sources and complications.- Chapter 2: Algal radioprotective phytochemicals: Sources and potential applications.- Chapter 3: Bio-prospecting of photoprotective compounds in algae.- Chapter 4: Unraveling fungal radioprotectants and their applications.- Chapter 5: Recent advances in metabolomics and molecular genomics for the production of photoprotective compounds.- Chapter 6: Bioprospecting and evolutionary significance of radioprotectors in non-flowering lower plants.- Chapter 7: Radioprotective phytochemicals: diversity, efficacy, application and commercialization.- Chapter 8: Impacts of climate alterations in the biosynthesis of defensive natural products.- Chapter 9: Cancer therapeutics: mechanism of action, radiation toxicity and drug formulation.- Chapter 10: Role of nanotechnology in the development of radioprotective formulations.- Chapter 11: Radioprotective effects of nutraceuticals and food products.- Chapter 12: Bioprospecting of radioprotective compounds in bacterial community.- Chapter 13: Pharmacology of synthetic and natural radioprotactants: application and consequences in cancer therapeutics.- Chapter 14: Immunochemistry: consequences and mechanism of protection in chemotherapeutics.- Chapter 15: Radioprootective therapeutics: recent trends and future applications.