Medicinal plants and environmental challenges. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mansour Ghorbanpour, Ajit Varma, editors.
• Editors: Ghorbanpour, Mansour; Varma, A (Ajit), 1939-
• Contents: Importance of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in the Life of Human and Environmental Ecosystems.- Introduction to Environmental Challenges all over the World.- Rarity of Endemic Medicinal Plants and Role of Herbaria for their Conservation against Environmental Challenges.- Metabolic Responses of Medicinal Plants to Global Warming, Temperature and Heat Stress.- Toxic Gases, Ozone, Carbon Dioxide, and Waste Effects on the Production of Secondary Plant Metabolites.- Plant Secondary Metabolites and Some Plant Growth Regulators Elicited by UV Irradiation, Light and/or Shade.- Effect of Climate Change on Algae: A valuable Source of Medicinal Natural Compounds.- Metabolic and Hormonal Responses of Plants to Cold Stress.- The Impact of Drought Stress on the Quality of Spice and Medicinal Plants.- Effects of Salinity Stress on Growth and Physiology of Medicinal Plants.- Heavy Metals Contaminated Soils Effects on Secondary Metabolites Production, Oxidative Status and Phytoextraction Potentials of Medicinal Plants.- Horizontal Natural Product Transfer: A so far Unconsidered Source of Contamination of Medicinal Plants.- Strategies for Enhancing Artemisinin Production in Artemisia annuaunder Changing Environment.- Response of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants to Natural and Manufactured Nanosacel Materials.- Influences of Agrochemicals, Seasonality and Good Agricultural Practices on some Phytochemical of Medicinal Plants.- Introduction to Infectious Medicinal Plants Diseases: Identification and Management.- Weed and Weeding Effects on Medicinal Plants.- The Insect Pests of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.- Biotechnological Production of Essential oils against Aedesaegypti L..- Adaptation Strategies and Defense Mechanisms of Plants to Environmental Stresses.- Metabolic Adaptation of Tea (Camellia sinensis) to Environmental Perturbations.- Genomic Approaches towards Development of Climate Resilient Medicinal Plants.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (413 pages)
• Subjects: 581.6/34; Medicine; Medicinal plants; Toxicology; Botany; Ecology; Plantes médicinales; Medicinal plants; Science -- Life Sciences -- Botany; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Botany & plant sciences; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Medical -- Pharmacology; Pharmacology; Plants, Medicinal
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319687179
• Related ISBNs: 9783319687162
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