Medicinal and Aromatic Plants : Expanding their Horizons through Omics

著者名：Aftab PhD, Tariq (EDT)/Hakeem PhD, Khalid Rehman (EDT)

Academic Press（2020/05/12発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780128195901
• eISBN：9780128227756

Description

Growing consumer interest in organic and herbal-based products has led to great demand in the botanicals industry in the past few years. However, the growing number of products utilizing medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) has threatened an estimated 9,000 medicinal plant species worldwide, making it critical to reevaluate their research and development, production, and utilization. Continuing advances in Omics methodologies and instrumentation are essential to understanding how plants cope with the dynamic nature of their growing environment, how yields and characteristics can be improved, and how to most effectively direct conservation efforts.With a focus on metabolomics, genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, and more, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Expanding Their Horizons through Omics illustrates the genetic mechanisms of MAPs, providing a better understanding of MAPs conservation and methods to improve characteristics for medical applications. With an introduction on the role of MAPs in human health, subsequent chapters discuss using proteomics to increase MAP yields and plant quality, genome editing, and CRISPR/Cas9. A valuable resource for farmers, scientists, chemists, biochemists, pharmacists, and students interested in medicinal and aromatic plants and plant biology, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Expanding Their Horizons through Omics ensures readers have the background knowledge to put the necessary methodologies into practice themselves.- Includes in-depth analysis of Omics technologies for the enhancement of MAPs- Discusses applications of MAPs including their role in human health Written by world-wide leading experts in the field

Table of Contents

1. Review of the active principles of medicinal and aromatic plants and their disease fighting properties2. Unraveling the mode of action of medicinal plants in delaying age related diseases using model organisms3. Metabolomics and fluxomics studies in the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus4. Multivariate analysis of herbal drugs with diverse pharmacological activities: Metabolomics study5. Metabolomics: A recent advanced omics technology in herbal medicine research6. Genome Editing: Applications for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants7. Cytogenetic and Bioactive Attributes of Crocus sativus (Saffron); a Tool to Unfold its Medicinal Mystery8. Metabolic engineering for the production of plant therapeutic compounds9. CRISPR/Cas9 mediated genome editing in medicinal and aromatic plants: Developments and applications10. Proteomics research in aromatic plants and its contribution to the nutraceuticals and pharmaceutical outcomes11. Fluxes of nutrients in mycorrhiza: What has fluxomics taught us in the plant-fungus interaction?12. Metabolomics of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Goldmines of Secondary metabolites for Herbal Medicine Research13. Exploration of biotechnological studies in low calorie sweetener Stevia rebaudiana: present and future prospects14. Saffron (Crocus sativus L.): It's Phytochemistry, Therapeutic Significance and Omics-based Biology15. Exploitation of revered potent medicinal mushroom Ganoderma lucidum with particular accent on oncotherapeutics