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.
- 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
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Section I - Overview of the Essential Oil-Bearing Plants1. Current status and future applications of the essential oil2. Sources, bioactivities and industrial importance of aromatic compounds3. Impact of abiotic stress factors on essential oil-yielding plants: Adaptation and strategies to overcome unpredictable situations- An OverviewSection II - Agricultural Practices for the Cultivation and Production of Essential Oil Plants 4. Cultivation of aromatic & medicinal plants using standard techniques5. Effect of organic fertilizers on physiological traits of some medicinal plants6. Peppermint (Mentha piperita L.): A menthol-producing crop7. Harvesting and post-harvest processing of medicinal and aromatic plants8. Agro-techniques of potential aromatic grasses in India9. Overexploitation and conservation strategies for medicinal and aromatic plants10. Plant essential oils production under abiotic stress factors11. In vitro anticancer and antibacterial activities of Forsskal's basil under extreme environmental conditionsSection III - Chemical Composition and Extraction of Phytochemicals12. Composition and characterization of phytochemicals in aromatic species of Lamiaceae family13. Chemical composition of essential oil in citrus species14. Natural plant compounds with diverse and multiple aromas, odors and colors15. Polyphenols and their biological applications16. Extraction and characterization of essential oils in aromatic plant species17. Implementation of novel distillation technology for essential oil extractionSection IV - Physiological, Biotechnological and Molecular Approaches18. In silico molecular docking and in (vivo/vitro) studies of bioactive compounds of essential oil plant19. Biotechnological approaches for valuable aromatic plants20. Stress tolerance and molecular mechanisms in essential oil plants21. Study on genetic diversity of medicinal plantsSection V - Applications in Healthcare and Food Industry 22. Applications of essential oil-bearing plants in healthcare23. Biotechnological production of anticancerous compounds24. Secondary metabolites, pharmacological activities and commercialization of basil products: major concerns regarding their legislation and approvals25. Antimicrobial activity of Hypericum scabrum essential oil26. Therapeutic potential of Eucalyptus plant species27. Genus Mentha: Volatile oil composition and applications in healthcare28. Myrtus communis L. from antiquity to today: Ethnopharmacological uses, phytochemical content and pharmacological effects29. Use of essential oils as additives in active food packaging30. Essential oil applications in the food industry31. Conclusions and future prospects
