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Book SynopsisMedicinal plants supply the ever-growing needs of humankind for natural chemicals, such as pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, agrochemicals, and chemical additives. These plants contain bioactive secondary metabolites, which possess antimalarial, anthelminthic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antimicrobial, antiarthritic, antioxidant, antidiabetic, antihypertensive, anticancer, antifungal, antispasmodic, cardioprotective, antithyroid, and antihistaminic properties. Secondary metabolites play a major role in the adaptation of plants to the changing environment and stress condition as they are affected by both biotic and abiotic stress. Humans rely on medicinal plants for various needs since ancient time, and their population still seems enough for fulfilling our demands. However, in the foreseeable future, we will be forced to think about the accessibility of resources for future generations. For these reasons, we must look for alternative sustainable options of resources which can protect these immensely important medicinal plants from various stresses induced by challenging environment. Evolving eco-friendly methodologies and mechanisms to improve these plants’ responses to unfavorable environmental circumstances is important in creating significant tools for better understanding of plant adaptations to various abiotic stresses and sustaining the supply of pharmaceuticals as global climate change intensifies.
One of the great challenges in the near future will be the sustainable production of medicinal plants under increasing adverse effects of climate change. A combination of adverse demographic factors and climatological perturbations is expected to impact food and pharmaceutical production globally. Despite the induction of several tolerance mechanisms, medicinal plants often fail to survive under environmental extremes. To ensure their sustainable production under adverse conditions, multidisciplinary approaches are needed, and useful leads are likely to emerge. However, improving plants' performance under restrictive growth conditions requires a deep understanding of the molecular processes that underlie their extraordinary physiological plasticity.
This edited volume emphasizes the recent updates about the current research on medicinal plants covering different aspects related to challenges and opportunities in the concerned field. This book is an attempt to bring together global researchers who have been engaged in the area of stress signaling, crosstalk, and mechanisms of medicinal plants. The book will provide a direction towards implementation of programs and practices that will enable sustainable production of medicinal plants resilient to challenging environmental conditions. Moreover, this book will instigate and commence readers to state-of-the-art developments and trends in this field.
Table of ContentsBook Title: Environmental Challenges and Medicinal Plants
Sustainable Production Solutions under Adverse Conditions
TOC and List of Contributors:
§ Current status of medicinal plants in perspective of environmental challenges and global climate changes
Rizwana Khanum
Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Garden Avenue Shakarparain Road, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
§ Impact of adverse conditions on medicinal plants
R. D. Tripathi
Ecotoxicology & Bioremediation Group, National Botanical Research Institute (C.S.I.R.), Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, 226 001, India
§ Hydroponic, Aeroponic and Organoponic Cultivation Systems for Medicinal Plants under challenging conditions
Jesús Antonio Salazar-Magallón
Laboratorio de Control Biológico, Colegio de Postgraduados. Boulevard Forjadores de Puebla # 205, Santiago Momoxpan, San Pedro Cholula Puebla, Mexico
§ Physiological and biochemical changes in medicinal plants regarding accumulation of compounds of interest adverse conditions
Hari Prasad Devkota
Department of Medicinal Botany, School of Pharmacy, Kumamoto University, 5-1 Oe-honmachi, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan
§ Deficiency and toxicity of mineral elements in medicinal plants including access and excess problems in plant nutrition and management
Jelena Popović- Djordjević
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Food Technology and Biochemistry, Belgrade, Serbia
§ Favourable Impacts of Drought Stress on the Quality of Medicinal Plants - Improvement of Composition and Content of their Natural Products
Abouzeid , S.2, Lewerenz, L.1, Yahyazadeh, M.3, Radwan. A.1, 4, , Hijazin, T.1,5 , Kleinwächter, M.6 , Selmar, D.1 *
1) Institut für Pflanzenbiologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstraße 4,
D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
2) Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516,
Egypt
3) Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and
Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran
4) Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute, AGERI- ARC, Giza, Egypt
5) Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Mutah University, P.O.Box 7, Mutah 61710,
Al-Karak, Jordan
6) Repha GmbH, 30832 Langenhagen, Germany
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Horizontal Natural Product Transfer - the Origin of Contaminations of Herbal Products and how to Prevent them Hijazin, T.1,2, Lewerenz, L.1, Yahyazadeh, M.3, Selmar, D.1*
1) Institut für Pflanzenbiologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstraße 4,
D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
2) Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Mutah University, P.O. Box7, Mutah 61710,
Al-Karak, Jordan
3) Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and
Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran
§ Phytoremediation Capacity of Medicinal Plants in Soils Contaminated with Heavy Metal
Hebert Jair Barrales-Cureño
Laboratorio de Control Biológico, Colegio de Postgraduados. Boulevard Forjadores de Puebla # 205, Mexico
§ Stress tolerant species of medicinal plants and phytoremediation potential
Behnam Asgari Lajayer
Health and Environment Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
§ Role of macro and micro nutrients, signalling molecules and their interaction regarding stress tolerance and/or resistance in medicinal plants
Dr. Marco Landi
Department of Agriculture, Food & Environment, University of Pisa, Italy
§ Biosynthesis and distribution of plant secondary metabolites of medicinal plants as affected by mineral nutrient elements and/or PGRs under challenging conditions
Priyanka Verma
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Division of Biochemical Sciences, Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune, Maharashtra 411008, India
§ Ameliorative role of plant growth regulators/ promoters in growth, yield and active constituents of medicinal plants under various adverse conditions
M. Naeem Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
§ Nutrient management strategies to improve productivity and quality of medicinal plants in challenging environment
Evandro Moreira de Almeida
Christus University Center – UNICHRISTUS, Fortaleza, Brazil
§ Role of Nano-biotechnology in medicinal plant production
Nina Kočevar Glavač
Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
§ Regulation of expression of transcription factors for enhanced metabolites production
Abhijit Dey
Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University, 86/1 College Street, Kolkata, 700073, India
§ Metabolic engineering applications in proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and amino acid research
Tewin Tencomnao
Age-Related Inflammation and Degeneration Research Unit, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok- 10330, Thailand
§ Alterations in alkaloid biosynthetic pathways for improved alkaloid yield in plants
Mauji Ram
Greentechnology Department, Ipca Laboratories Ltd., Sejavta-457002, Dist. Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, India
§ CRISPR/Cas9 platforms for genome editing in medicinal plants for enhanced stress tolerance
Jameel R. Al-Obaidi
Agro-biotechnology Institute Malaysia (ABI), c/o MARDI headquarters, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
§ An overview of sustainable production of medicinal plants under challenging environmental conditions
Tariq Aftab
Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
