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Medicinal Plants

Domestication, Biotechnology and Regional Importance

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Editors:
  1. Halina Maria Ekiert

    1. Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Kraków, Poland

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  2. Kishan Gopal Ramawat

    1. Department of Botany, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India

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  3. Jaya Arora

    1. Department of Botany, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India

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  • First title on medicinal plants and domestication
  • Features the demand for herbal drugs
  • Presents the latest R&D information
  • Uniform chapter structure

Part of the book series: Sustainable Development and Biodiversity (SDEB, volume 28)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Medicinal Plants Domestication, Cultivation, Improvement, and Alternative Technologies for the Production of High Value Therapeutics: An Overview

    • K. G. Ramawat, Jaya Arora
    Pages 1-29

  3. Domestication and Cultivation of Medicinal Plants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Introducing Wild-Growing Medicinal Plants into Cultivation: Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris Moench)—A Rich Source of Phenolic Compounds

      • K. Bączek, J. L. Przybył, O. Kosakowska, Z. Węglarz
      Pages 33-53

    3. Domestication of Andrographis paniculata (King of Bitters)

      • Hosakatte Niranjana Murthy, So Young Park, Kee Yoeup Paek
      Pages 55-68

    4. Successful Cultivation and Utilization of Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott (Black Chokeberry), a Species of North-American Origin, in Poland and the Biosynthetic Potential of Cells from In Vitro Cultures

      • Halina Ekiert, Paweł Kubica, Agnieszka Szopa
      Pages 69-111

    5. Cultivation and Utilization of Valeriana jatamansi Jones for Conservation Planning and Management

      • Arun Kumar Jugran, Indra D. Bhatt, Ranbeer S. Rawal
      Pages 113-178

    6. Schisandra chinensis and Schisandra sphenanthera—From Traditional Far Eastern Medicine to International Utilization

      • Karolina Jafernik, Halina Ekiert, Agnieszka Szopa
      Pages 179-227

    7. Cultivation and Utilization of Coleus Species

      • Nikhila Reddy Reddymalla, Sushanth Pureti, Viswanatha Chaitanya Kolluru
      Pages 229-251

    8. Cultivation of Hypericum Perforatum (St. John’s Wort) and Biotechnological Approaches for Improvement of Plant Raw Material Quality

      • Inga Kwiecień, Noemi Nicosia, Halina Ekiert
      Pages 253-291

    9. Mango Ginger: Prospects for Domestication and Utilization

      • Ajit Arun Waman, Kalyan P. Kadbhane, Gourish R. Karanjalker
      Pages 293-313

    10. Cultivation and Utilization of Red Clover (Trifolium pratense L.)

      • Grażyna Zgórka, Magdalena Maciejewska-Turska
      Pages 315-338

    11. Cultivation and Utilization of Diosgenin-Contained Dioscorea Species

      • Wellington Ferreira do Nascimento, Marcos Vinicius Bohrer Monteiro Siqueira, Edson Ferreira da Silva, Elizabeth Ann Veasey
      Pages 339-356

    12. Cultivation, Chemical Constituents and Utilization of Lonicera caerulea L. (Blue Honeysuckle) in Poland

      • Katarzyna Sobkowicz, Agnieszka Szewczyk, Beata Ornat, Małgorzata Bedra-Tokarz
      Pages 357-381

    13. Cultivation and Utilization of Shiitake Mushroom

      • F. Atila
      Pages 383-413

    14. Cultivation and Breeding of Commercial Perfumery Grass Vetiver

      • Sunita Singh Dhawan, Pankhuri Gupta, Raj Kishori Lal
      Pages 415-433

    15. Cultivation and Utilization of Pandanus odorifer for Industrial Application

      • Noohi Nasim, I. Sriram Sandeep, Sanghamitra Nayak, Sujata Mohanty
      Pages 435-456

  4. Biotechnology in Medicinal Plants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 457-457
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    2. Medicinal Plant Research at Crossroads: Biotechnological Approaches for Conservation, Production and Stability in Tissue Cultures and Regenerated Plants

      • Mihir Halder, Anrini Majumder, Smita Ray, Sumita Jha
      Pages 459-544

    3. Higher Plant Sources of Cancer Chemotherapeutic Agents and the Potential Role of Biotechnological Approaches for Their Supply

      • Peter J. Blanco Carcache, Ermias Mekuria Addo, A. Douglas Kinghorn
      Pages 545-581
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Keywords

About this book

Medicinal plant research is an evergreen subject. There is a tremendous increase in popularity of herbal medicine in traditional medicine, ethnomedicine, modern medicine and as over the counter food supplements. Even after this increased demand, supply is neither uniform nor assured as most of these plants are collected from wild. In developing countries of tropical and subtropical regions where majority of herbal drugs are produced, this is not organised sector making it vulnerable to several malpractices, hence standardization of all aspects required. This has also negative impact on biodiversity and conservation of plants as well as supply of uniform material.

This book is aimed to provide up to date information about sustainable use of selected medicinal plants, their active ingredients and efforts made to domesticate them to ensured uniform supply. Development of agrotechnology, biotechnology and cultivation practices using conventional and non-conventional methods arepresented. Where these efforts will lead the medicinal plant research and future perspective are discussed.

The chapters are written by well recognised group leaders in working in the field. The book contains topics on general biology of medicinal plants, their sustainable use and, cultivation and domestication efforts. A uniform chapter structure has been designed to keep consistency. The book will be useful for academicians, agriculturists, biotechnologists and researcher, and industries involved in manufacturing herbal drugs and supplementary products.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Kraków, Poland

    Halina Maria Ekiert

  • Department of Botany, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India

    Kishan Gopal Ramawat, Jaya Arora

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Medicinal Plants

  • Book Subtitle: Domestication, Biotechnology and Regional Importance

  • Editors: Halina Maria Ekiert, Kishan Gopal Ramawat, Jaya Arora

  • Series Title: Sustainable Development and Biodiversity

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74779-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74778-7Published: 02 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74781-7Published: 03 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74779-4Published: 01 September 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2352-474X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-4758

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 907

  • Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations, 112 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Biodiversity, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Biotechnology, Agriculture

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