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Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Medicinal Plants, Volume 6 de Ram J. Singh

Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Medicinal Plants, Volume 6

Editat de Ram J. Singh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2019
Medicinal Plants, Volume 6 of the Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement series summarizes landmark research and describes medicinal plants as nature’s pharmacy.
Highlights
  • Examines the use of molecular technology for maintaining authenticity and quality of plant-based products
  • Details reports on individual medicinal plants including their history, origin, genetic resources, cytogenetics, and varietal improvement through conventional and modern methods, and their use in pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical, nutrition, and food industries
  • Explains how to protect plants with medicinal properties from deforestation, urbanization, overgrazing, pollution, overharvesting, and biopiracy
  • Brings together information on germplasm resources of medicinal plants, their history, taxonomy and biogeography, ecology and biodiversity, genetics and breeding, exploitation, and utilization in the medicine and food industries
Written by leading international experts and an innovative panel of scientists, Medicinal Plants offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on medicinal plant genetic resources and their increasing importance in pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical industries, medicine, and nutrition around the world.
Includes eight-page color insert more than 25 full color figures
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367382407
ISBN-10: 0367382407
Pagini: 1100
Ilustrații: 303
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția CRC Press

Public țintă

Academic, Professional, and Professional Reference

Cuprins

Landmark Research in Medicinal Plants. Medicinal Plants—Nature’s Pharmacy. Indian Traditional and Ethno Medicines from Antiquity to Modern Drug Development. Medicinal Fruit Trees of Southeast Asia. Medicinal Plants of China. Medicinal Plants of the Middle East. An Overview of the Medicinal Plants of Turkey. An Overview of the Ethnobotany of Turkmenistan and Use of Juniperus Turcomanica in Phytotherapy. Medicinal Plants of Ghana. Medicinal Plants of Australia: Melaleuca Alternifolia for the Production of Tea Tree Oil. Medicinal Plants of New South Wales, Australia. Medicinal Properties of Legumes. Artemisia spp. Poppy: Utilization and Genetic Resources. Ginger. Turmeric. Ginseng. Tea. Coffee (Coffea spp.). Yacon (Asteraceae; Smallanthus sonchifolius). Mint. Plantago ovata: Cultivation, Genomics, Chemistry, and Therapeutic Applications. Christmas Candle Senna: An Ornamental and a Pharmaceutical Plant. Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.). Aloe vera. Stevia rebaudiana—A Natural Substitute for Sugar. Ipecac—Carapichea ipecacuanha. Myrtus communis: Phytotherapy in the Mediterranean. Licorice (Glycyrrhiza species). Applications of Biotechnology and Molecular Markers in Botanical Drug Standardization and Quality Assurance.

Descriere

With chapters authored by world-renowned scientists, this book summarizes landmark research and describes medicinal plants as nature’s pharmacy. It provides suggestions on how to conserve, maintain, examine, and protect plants from deforestation, urbanization, and biopiracy. It includes a comprehensive account of the history of medicinal plants, including genetic resources, cytogenetics, and varietal improvement through conventional and modern methods. The book also covers their use in producing pharmaceutical drugs, cosmeceutical products, nutrition and food products, and beverages. It concludes with an examination of the use of molecular technology for maintaining authenticity and quality of plant-based products.

Recenzii

... References cited at the end of each chapter are extensive and provide good sources for additional information on topics mentioned in the chapter. The book focuses on a broad array of subjects that are important to the plant breeding field, including new approaches such as DNA-marker technology, marker assisted selection, tissue culture, and gene transfer. The authors did a great job in covering these subjects... .
—Crop Science 48:823–824 (March – April 2008)
... Essays weave botany, cytogenetics, domestication, genetic resources, with comprehensive bibliographies. ... Although featuring Singh's and Newell's careful work, Singh et al. report soybean cytogenetics has lagged behind other economically important crops. Thorough review of groundnut credits substantial taxonomic input by Stalker, and chronicles evaluation of core collections .... A concise table in cottonseed summarizes evolutionary relations among species in this intricate genus. Exhaustive details about wild and weedy sunflowers show Helianthus is a complex of extremes, with 10 to 200 species. Safflower compares genomic relationships of species classification with molecular data.
—Economic Botany, 2007