The Ocimum Genome

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Ocimum as a Promising Commercial Crop

   • R. K. Srivastava, Sanjay Kumar, R. S. Sharma

   Pages 1-7

3. Ocimum Species: A Longevity Elixir

   • Aakanksha Pant, Rakesh Pandey

   Pages 9-24

4. Ocimum: The Holy Basil Against Cardiac Anomalies

   • Vishnu Sharma, Debabrata Chanda

   Pages 25-36

5. Evolutionary Analysis of a Few Protein Superfamilies in Ocimum tenuiflorum

   • A. Gandhimathi, Nitish Sathyanarayanan, Meenakshi Iyer, Rachit Gupta, R. Sowdhamini

   Pages 37-60

6. Systematic Position, Phylogeny, and Taxonomic Revision of Indian Ocimum

   • Amit Kumar, Ashutosh K. Shukla, Ajit Kumar Shasany, Velusamy Sundaresan

   Pages 61-72

7. Genetics, Cytogenetics, and Genetic Diversity in the Genus Ocimum

   • Soni Gupta, Abhilasha Srivastava, Ajit Kumar Shasany, Anil Kumar Gupta

   Pages 73-87

8. Traditional Plant Breeding in Ocimum

   • R. K. Lal, Pankhuri Gupta, C. S. Chanotiya, Sougata Sarkar

   Pages 89-98

9. Genomic Resources of Ocimum

   • Saumya Shah, Shubhra Rastogi, Ajit Kumar Shasany

   Pages 99-110

10. Triterpene Functional Genomics in Ocimum

    • Sumit Ghosh

    Pages 111-126

11. Ocimum Genome Sequencing—A Futuristic Therapeutic Mine

    • Shubhra Rastogi, Ajit Kumar Shasany

    Pages 127-148

This book provides an overview of the Ocimum genus from its genetic diversity to genome sequences, metabolites and their therapeutic utilities. Tulasi, Ocimum tenuiflorum, as a member of the family Lamiaceae, is a sacred plant in India. The plants of this genus Ocimum are collectively referred to as Basil and holy basil is worshipped in the Hindu religion. Basils are reservoirs of diverse terpenoids, phenylpropanoids and flavonoids, in addition to commercially important aromatic essential oils.  In 2016, two working groups in India published the genome sequence in two different genotypes of Ocimum tenuiflorum. To help the readers understand the complexities of the genus and different chemotypes, this book accumulates all the available information on this medicinal plant including the genome. The complete knowledge may enable researchers to generate specific chemotypes in basil either through conventional breeding or development of transgenic lines. It also makes it possible to investigate the medicinal nature of holy basil compared to different species of the same genus.

• Ocimum tenuiflorum
• medicinal plant
• whole-genome sequencing
• genetic diversity
• functional genomics
• holy basil
• tulasi

• Department of Plant Biotechnology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Research (CSIR-CIMAP), Lucknow, India

  Ajit Kumar Shasany

• Raja Ramanna Fellow, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, Kalyani, Nadia, India

  Chittaranjan Kole

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