Utilisation and Management of Medicinal Plants Vol. 1

by Anil K Verma, Sushma Koul, V K Gupta

ISBN: 9789383048564
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Imprint : DAYA
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 13995.00
Biblio : xii+391p., col. plts., tabls., idn., 25 cm

Author Profile

Dr. V. K. Gupta is serving as Deputy Director and Head at Central Animal Facility, Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR), Jammu, India. His research capabilities are substantiated by his excellent work on histopathology and reproductive biology of fishes, birds and mammals.

About The Book

Medicinal plants have extensive past and present use in treatment of diverse diseases and serve as compounds of interest both in their natural form and as templates for synthetic modifications. According to an estimate of the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 80 per cent of the people in developing countries realy chiefly on traditional medicines for primary health care needs; a major portion of these involves the use of medicinal plants. The present book “Utilisation and Management

Table of Contents

CONTENTS Chapter 1: Biotechnological Interventions for Enhancing the Availability of High Value Medicinal Plants by Nishritha Bopana and Sanjay Saxena; Chapter 2: Environmental Regulation of Secondary Metabolite Accumulation in Aromatic Crops: A Review by K. Ramesh and Virendra Singh; Chapter 3: Search for Useful Substances in Papyrus Cyperus papyrus L. by Nariaki Wakiuchi, Hajime Tamaki, Takashi Nishino and Yukihiro Sugimoto; Chapter 4: Secondary Plant Products and their Biopotentials by S.C. J