Utilisation and Management of Medicinal Plants

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Biotechnological interventions for enhancing the availability of high value medicinal plants/Nishritha Bopana and Sanjay Saxena. 2. Environmental regulation of secondary metabolite accumulation in aromatic crops: a review/K. Ramesh and Virendra Singh. 3. Search for useful substances in Papyrus Cyperus Papyrus L./Nariaki Wakiuchi, Hajime Tamaki, Takashi Nishino and Yukihiro Sugimoto. 4. Secondary plant products and their biopotentials/S.C. Jain, R. Singhl and R. Jain. 5. Bioactive compounds from fungi: a review/Nilanjana Das and Lazar Mathew. 6. Elevated carbon dioxide levels enhance Rosmarinic Acid Production in spearmint plantlets/Brent Tisserat, Mark Berhow and Steven F. Vaughn. 7. Approaches for enhancing yield of Artemisinin: a novel Antimalarial compound, in Artemisia annua L. Plants/M.Z. Abdin, Mauji Ram, Usha Kiran and M.A. Khan. 8. Pieris Brassicae as laboratory of synthesis of new compounds with biological potential: Interaction with Brassica oleracea var. costata and Brassica rapa var. rapa./David M. Pereira, Patricia Valentao, Federico Ferreres, Rosa Seabra and Paula B. Andrade. 9. Medicinal properties of mistletoe: a review/P.O. Osadebe, I.C. Uzochukwu and E.O. Omega. 10. Comparative assessment of growth productivity and chemical profiling of wild and cultivated populations of Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal/Arun Kumar, M.K. Kaul, Punit Kumar Khanna, Sushma Koul and K.A. Suri. 11. Bioprospecting: a move from land to the seas/Kushal Qanungo. 12. The genus Mentha: a versatile plant/Amrita Chakraborty, Krittika Sasmal and Sharmila Chattopadhyay. 13. Medicinal and aromatic potentialities of Ocimums and their efficacy in traditional systems of medicine/M.K. Khosla and V.K. Gupta. 14. Herbs that can compact noise stress: a mini review/R. Scheeladevi. 15. Bioactive compounds from Annona species/Beena Joy. 16. Saffron: a high value crop/Sushma Koul, Esha Abrol, Bilal A. Mir and A.K. Koul. 17. Antibacterial activity of Acacia Daviesii (M. Bartolome) sp. nov.: a new and rare species identified in North-Eastern Victoria, Australia/Hilde Lie Kjaerstad, Allison McGill and Enzo A. Palombo. 18. A review on some potential anthelmintic herbal drugs/Ravindra G. Mali. 19. Variations in Tannin and Oxalic Acid content in Terminalia Arjuna (Arjuna) Bark/A.K. Pandey and D.C. Kori. 20. Natural sweetening agents: a review/Annie Shirwaikar, Arun Shirwaikar, Richard Lobo and Kiriti S. Prabhu. 21. Pseudomonas fluorescens as microbial pesticides in black pepper: their mechanisms of action/Diby Paul and Y.R. Sarma. Index.

"Medicinal plants have extensive past and present use in treatment of diverse diseases and serve as compounds of interest both in their natural form and as templates for synthetic modifications. According to an estimate of the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 80 per cent of the people in developing countries rely chiefly on traditional medicines for primary health care needs; a major portion of these involves the use of medicinal plants.

The present book "Utilisation and Management of Medicinal Plants" encompass 21 research and review articles contributed by eminent researchers/scientists from various parts of the globe and covers the importance of scientific research on medicinal plants in the areas of botany, chemistry, biotechnology, toxicology and pharmacology. Following are some of the lead articles included in this book:

• Biotechnological interventions for enhancing the availability of High Value Medicinal Plants.
  
• Environmental regulation of secondary metabolite accumulation in aromatic crops.
  
• Search for useful substances in Papyrus Cyperus Papyrus.
  
• Secondary plant products and their biopotentials.
  
• Bioactive compounds from fungi.
  
• Approaches for enhancing yield of Artemisinin.
  
• Pieris Brassicae as laboratory of synthesis.
  
• Bioprospecting: a move from land to the seas.
  
• Medicinal and aromatic potentialities of Ocimums.
  
• Medicinal properties of Mistletoe.
  
• Saffron: a high value crop.
  
• Some potential Anthelminitic herbal drugs.
  
• Variations in Tannin and Oxalic acid content in Terminalia Arjuna.
  
• Natural sweetening agents.  

It is hoped that this book with wide spectrum of themes shall generate further interest and database for the benefit of academicians, researchers/scientists working on medicinal plants who shall find it very useful and indispensable in their relevant research pursuits."