Aftab / Hakeem Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Healthcare and Industrial Applications
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-58975-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 783 Seiten, eBook

Before the concept of history began, humans undoubtedly acquired life benefits by discovering medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) that were food and medicine. Today, a variety of available herbs and spices are used and enjoyed throughout the world and continue to promote good health. The international market is also quite welcoming for MAPs and essential oils. The increasing environment and nature conscious buyers encourage producers to produce high quality essential oils. These consumer choices lead to growing preference for organic and herbal based products in the world market.  As the benefits of medicinal and aromatic plants are recognized, these plants will have a special role for humans in the future.  Until last century, the production of botanicals relies to a large degree on wild-collection. However, the increasing commercial collection, largely unmonitored trade, and habitat loss lead to an incomparably growing pressure on plant populations in the wild. Therefore, medicinal and aromatic plants are of high priority for conservation. 

Given the above, we bring forth a comprehensive volume, “Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Healthcare and Industrial Applications”, highlighting the various healthcare, industrial and pharmaceutical applications that are being used on these immensely important MAPs and its future prospects. This collection of chapters from the different areas dealing with MAPs caters to the need of all those who are working or have interest in the above topic.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aftab, Tariq

Hakeem, Khalid Rehman

Inhaltsverzeichnis

§   History and role of medicinal and aromatic plants in human health

Sheng Qin

The key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Medicinal Plant of Jiangsu Province, School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, China

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§   Secondary metabolites of medicinal and aromatic plants and their disease fighting properties

Paul Horrocks

School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Hornbeam Building,

Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK

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§   Healthcare challenges in developing countries: Role of medicinal and aromatic plants

Wen-Quan Wang

School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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§   Marketing of medicinal plants: A growing commercial sector

Chandra Prakash Kala

National Medicinal Plants Board, Ministry of Health & FamilyWelfare, Government of India, 36- Janpath, Chandralok Building, NewDelhi- 110 001, India

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§   International market prospects for medicinal and aromatic plants

Ralf R. Mendel

Department of Plant Biology, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany

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§   The conservation and utilization of medicinal plant resources

Elisabeth Hsu

Institute of social and cultural anthropology, Faculty of oriental studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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§   Economic importance of medicinal plants in developing countries

Tewin Tencomnao

Age-Related Inflammation and Degeneration Research Unit, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok- 10330, Thailand

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§   Phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicity of important medicinal plants

         Tomokazu Kohiba-Koshiba

         Department of Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo,          Japan

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§   Improving quality of medicinal and aromatic plants though technological developments

Shashi Pandey Rai

Laboratory of Morphogenesis, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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§   Understanding the mechanisms of action of medicinal plants

Lucie Beaulieu

Département des Sciences des Aliments, Institut sur la Nutrition et les Aliments Fonctionnels (INAF), 2425, rue de l’Agriculture, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada

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§   Industrial utilization of medicinal and aromatic plants

H. J. Barrales-Cureño

Laboratorio de Productos Naturales, Área de Química, Departamento de Preparatoria Agrícola. AP74 Oficina de correos Chapingo,  Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Km 38.5 Carretera México-Texcoco, Texcoco Estado de México, 56230.

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§   Introduction of green technology for extraction of active constituents from medicinal and aromatic plants

Mauji Ram

Green Technology Department, Ipca Laboratories Ltd., Sejavta-457002, Dist. Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, India

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§   Phytoremediation potential of medicinal and aromatic plants

Shafaqat Ali

Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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§   Medicinal and aromatic plants and herbal drugs

Khalid Rehman Hakeem

Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Makkah Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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§   Aromatic plants as a source of bioactive compounds and uses in fragrance industry

Priyanka Verma

Plant Biotechnology Division,  Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226015, India

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§   Essential oil-bearing plants and their commercial value

M. Masroor A. Khan

Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

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§   Entrepreneurship and agribusiness development through medicinal and aromatic plants

J. B. Komaraiah

Department of Economics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221 005, U.P. Email: [e-mail]

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Tariq Aftab received his Ph.D. from the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India. He is the recipient of a prestigious Leibniz-DAAD fellowship from Germany, Raman Fellowship from the Government of India, and Young Scientist Awards from the State Government of Uttar Pradesh (India) and Government of India. He has worked as Visiting Scientist at IPK, Gaterleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA. He is also a member of various scientific associations from India and abroad. He has published research articles in multiple peer-reviewed national and international journals and is the lead editor of the book Artemisia annua: Pharmacology and Biotechnology. His research interests include physiological, proteomic, and molecular studies on medicinal and aromatic plants.

Khalid Rehman Hakeem (Ph.D.) is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completing his doctorate (Botany; specialization in Plant Eco-physiology and Molecular Biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, in 2011, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, for a short period. Later, he joined Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, and worked there as Postdoctorate Fellow in 2012 and Fellow Researcher (Associate Professor) from 2013 to 2016. Dr. Hakeem has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels; also, he has served as the visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he is involved with a number of international research projects with different government organizations. So far, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited more than 35 books with international publishers, including Springer Nature, Academic Press (Elsevier), and CRC Press. He also has to his credit more than 80 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 55 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. At present, Dr. Hakeem serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of several high-impact international scientific journals from Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Cambridge, and John Wiley Publishers. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also a fellow of Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, member of the World Academy of Sciences, member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan, and member of Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea. Dr. Hakeem has been listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World, since 2014–2019. Currently, Dr. Hakeem is engaged in studying the plant processes at eco-physiological as well as molecular levels.