This contributed volume provides a comprehensive, in-depth and subject-based reviews on the current status of active ingredients, sustainable use, biodiversity and conservation of certain endangered medicinal plants. The book also explores conventional and non-conventional biotechnological interventions for their biodiversity conservation. Medicinal plants have been used in worldwide as a major source of raw material for the traditional herbal healthcare practices as well as for drug discovery and development in pharmaceutical industry. The cumulative consequences of various human activities and environmental factors cause decline in the biodiversity of medicinal plants at an unprecedented rate worldwide. Thus, the overall understanding of ecology, species and genetic diversity along with assessment of the status of different threats and their impact on medicinal plants is crucial to sustain existing biodiversity, its utilization and conservation. All the latest advancements in the biotechnological approaches for the conservation research of endangered medicinal plants and the future perspectives have been described. This book provides comprehensive reviews spreading over about 25 chapters divided in three sections. The chapters of this book are written by recognized scientists in their respective fields which are useful to students, academicians, researchers, botanists, biotechnologists, policy makers, conservationists and industries interested in biodiversity conservation and medicinal plant research for the production of secondary metabolites.
1. The Current Status of Population Extinction and Biodiversity Crisis
of Medicinal Plants.- 2. Medicinal Plants and Bioactive Phytochemical
Diversity: A Fountainhead of Potential Drugs against Human Diseases.-
3. Threats and opportunities for sustainable use of medicinal plants in
Brazilian Atlantic Forest based on the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and
Local Communities.- 4. Climate Change Impact on Medicinal Plants: An Insight
from the IUCN Red List Of Threatened Species.- 5. Securing Conservation
Status of Paris Polyphylla, a Medicinally Important Plant of the Indian
Himalayan Region.- 6. Endophytic Fungal Diversity in Solanaceous Medicinal
Plants and Their Beneficial Impact.- 7. Genetic Studies on Threatened
Medicinal Plants of Brazil: Mind the Gap.- 8. Medicinal Plants of North-east
India: Biodiversity and Their Ethno-Medicinal Values.- 9. Strategies for
Conservation and Sustainable Use of Medicinal Plants.- 10. Scientific
Databases for Conservation of Medicinal Plants.- 11. International Trade of
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs).- 12. Inventorization of Ecology,
Ethnobotany and Conservation Status of Dactylorhiza hatagirea: Problems
Progress and Prospects.- 13. Conservation and Sustainable Use of Medicinal
Plants.- 14. Traditional Practices of Ethnomedicinal Plants in North-East
Region of India and Their Conservation for Sustainable Utilization.-
15. Occurrence and Diversity of Major Naphthoquinones in Higher Plants: Their
Distribution and Conservation Strategies.- 16. Astragalus fridae genetic
Source,Applications, and Conservation.- 17. Tinospora cordifolia as a
Potential Candidate for Health Care Of Post-Menopausal Women.- 18. The
Potential Role of Medicinal Plants, Traditional Herbal Medicines and
Formulations to Overcome SARS-CoV-2 Induced Health Crisis.- 19. Bioactive
Compounds from Medicinal Plants and Its Therapeutic Uses in the Traditional
Health Care System.- 20. In-Vitro conservation and propagation of endangered
Ethno-Medicinal Orchids from the Northeast Region of India.- 21. Artificial
Seed Production and Cryopreservation Technology for Conservation of Plant
Germplasm with Special Reference to Medicinal Plants.- 22. Biotechnological
Studies on Nasturtium Officinale (Watercress) - An Endangered Species of
Significant Relevance in Medicine, Cosmetic, and Food Industries.- 23. Isatis
tinctoria L. (woad) Cultivation, Phytochemistry, Pharmacology,
Biotechnology, and Utilization.- 24. Tissue Culture Techniques to Conserve
Endangered Medicinal Plants with Antimicrobial and Antiviral Activities.-
25. Insights into the In Vitro Approaches for the Production of Secondary
Metabolites Towards The Conservation of Medicinal Orchids.-
26. Biotechnological Approaches for Ex Situ Conservation of Medicinal
Plants.- 27. Conservation of Medicinal Plants by Tissue Culture Techniques.-
28. Current Statusof Metabolic Engineering of Medicinal Plants for Production
of Plant-derived Secondary Metabolites.- 29. Stationary, Agitated and
Bioreactor Cultures of Verbena officinalis L. (Common Vervain) - A Potential
Rich Source of Bioactive Phenolic Compounds for Pharmacy, Health Food
Industry and Cosmetology.
Professor. Sumita Jha (nee Mukherjee), FNASc., FWAST, received her M.Sc. (1975) and Ph.D. (1981) from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. She joined the same University as UGC Research Scientist in 1985 and as a faculty member in Botany in 1990. She was appointed Associate Professor in 1993 and became Professor in 2001. She has been involved in teaching courses on plant biology, molecular genetics, and biotechnology. Prof. Jhas group has developed transgenic cell and organ cultures in a number of rare, endangered indigenous medicinal plants for the production of high-value pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Mihir Halder, Assistant Professor in the Post Graduate Department of Botany, Barasat Government College, West Bengal, India, received his B.Sc. with honors in Botany (2007) from Presidency College, Kolkata and M. Sc. in Botany (2009) from University of Calcutta, India. He was awarded Ph.D. in Biochemistry (2017) from University of Calcutta. He is actively engaged in teaching courses on Genetics, Cell and Molecular Biology and Plant Biotechnology for over seven years. His research interest includes medicinal plant biotechnology and cytogenetics.
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