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Essential Oil-Bearing Plants

Agro-techniques, Phytochemicals, and Healthcare Applications

  • 1st Edition - March 22, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: M. Naeem, M. Masroor A. Khan
  • Language: English

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Essential Oil Bearing Plants: Agro-techniques, Phytochemicals, and Healthcare Applications provides a unique, comprehensive view of the plants which produce these valuable products, exploring optimal plant production. Environmental factors such as genetic factors, geographical origins, cultivation locations, environmental conditions, and nutritional status influence their secondary components. Moreover, water variability, temperature, salt, and metal stresses significantly impact the growth, yield, and EO production of these plants by adjustment of anatomical, morphological, and biochemical development.

This compilation increases the awareness of the essential oil plant species, their conservation, cultivation, and sustainable utilization. This deeper understanding of current science will aid in the efficient commercialization of products based on these plants, and will help identify knowledge gaps for future research.

Key features

  • Presents insights from botany, agronomy, agriculture science, medicinal chemistry, biotechnology, molecular biology, and pharmacology
  • Highlights agricultural practices for the cultivation and production of essential Oil-bearing plants
  • Includes therapeutic properties and other medicinal applications
  • Explores chemical composition and the extraction of phytochemicals
  • Addresses the latest physiological, biotechnological, and molecular approaches

Readership

Researchers in plant science, and natural products development

Table of contents

Section I – Overview of the Essential Oil-Bearing Plants

1. Current status and future applications of the essential oil

2. Sources, bioactivities and industrial importance of aromatic compounds

3. Impact of abiotic stress factors on essential oil-yielding plants: Adaptation and strategies to overcome unpredictable situations- An Overview

Section II – Agricultural Practices for the Cultivation and Production of Essential Oil Plants

4. Cultivation of aromatic & medicinal plants using standard techniques

5. Effect of organic fertilizers on physiological traits of some medicinal plants

6. Peppermint (Mentha piperita L.): A menthol-producing crop

7. Harvesting and post-harvest processing of medicinal and aromatic plants

8. Agro-techniques of potential aromatic grasses in India

9. Overexploitation and conservation strategies for medicinal and aromatic plants

10. Plant essential oils production under abiotic stress factors

11. In vitro anticancer and antibacterial activities of Forsskal's basil under extreme environmental conditions

Section III - Chemical Composition and Extraction of Phytochemicals

12. Composition and characterization of phytochemicals in aromatic species of Lamiaceae family

13. Chemical composition of essential oil in citrus species

14. Natural plant compounds with diverse and multiple aromas, odors and colors

15. Polyphenols and their biological applications

16. Extraction and characterization of essential oils in aromatic plant species

17. Implementation of novel distillation technology for essential oil extraction

Section IV - Physiological, Biotechnological and Molecular Approaches

18. In silico molecular docking and in (vivo/vitro) studies of bioactive compounds of essential oil plant

19. Biotechnological approaches for valuable aromatic plants

20. Stress tolerance and molecular mechanisms in essential oil plants

21. Study on genetic diversity of medicinal plants

Section V - Applications in Healthcare and Food Industry

22. Applications of essential oil-bearing plants in healthcare

23. Biotechnological production of anticancerous compounds

24. Secondary metabolites, pharmacological activities and commercialization of basil products: major concerns regarding their legislation and approvals

25. Antimicrobial activity of Hypericum scabrum essential oil

26. Therapeutic potential of Eucalyptus plant species

27. Genus Mentha: Volatile oil composition and applications in healthcare

28. Myrtus communis L. from antiquity to today: Ethnopharmacological uses, phytochemical content and pharmacological effects

29. Use of essential oils as additives in active food packaging

30. Essential oil applications in the food industry

31. Conclusions and future prospects

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 22, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

MN

M. Naeem

M. Naeem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India. His research focuses on escalating the production of medicinal plants and their active principles using potent PGRs under normal and stressful environmental conditions. His research also focuses on abiotic stress tolerance in medicinal plants. Dr. Naeem has published over 100 research papers in reputable international journals. He has also authored 12 books and co-authored several book chapters published by international publishers. Based on his research contributions, Dr. Naeem has received multiple awards and recognitions.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

MK

M. Masroor A. Khan

Dr. M. Masroor A. Khan is a professor in the Department of Botany, AMU, Aligarh, India. After completing the PhD from AMU, he joined the Ohio State University, USA as Post-doctoral Fellow. After returning from USA, he worked as Pool Scientist (CSIR) and, later, as a Research Associate (CSIR and UGC). Thereafter, he was appointed as Assistant Professor in AMU. Prof. Khan has published eight books and about 150 research papers in internationally recognized journals. Prof. Khan contributed to the establishment of Radiation-Processed Polysaccharides (RPPs) as plant growth promoters. His research-collaboration with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai resulted in the development of specific agro-formulation, which would help the farmers to increase the productivity and active constituents of MAPs. He has published his valuable research regarding the effects of RPPs on MAPs in high impact factor journals such as Carbohydrate Polymers, Industrial Crops and Products, etc.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

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