Editors:
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Domestication and Cultivation of Medicinal Plants
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Front Matter
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Biotechnology in Medicinal Plants
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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
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Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Kraków, Poland
Halina Maria Ekiert
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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