This is the 9th volume in the series Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World. India is one of the countries with the longest and richest past, present, and future of medicinal and aromatic plant (MAP) production and utilization. More than enough knowledge has been accumulated to fill two volumes. This is shown by the vivid interest of Indian colleagues to contribute. Similar to the previous volumes, this one deals with the various important aspects (from botanical through phytochemical to pharmacological) of MAPs, famous or simply known from India. Scientific and technological achievements are equally presented.
1. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India: A bridge from Traditions to modern wellbeing
2. Holy basil (Ocimum sanctum L.) - an important Indian medicinal and aromatic plant: its properties, utilization and genetic improvement
3. Ethnomedicinal Importance of Common Weeds of the Family Asteraceae in the Tribal Belt of Rajasthan, India
4. Cydonia oblonga Mill. - Wound healing properties
5. Artemisia annua L. - A comprehensive review on pharmacological properties
6. Mesua ferrea L - Ethnobotany, Phytochemistry and Pharmacology
7. Linum usitatissimum L. - Rich store house of pharmacologically active metabolites
8. Gymnema sylvestre R.Br.: - Phytochemicals and Medicinal Properties
9. Medicinal and Aromatic plants of India used in the treatment of skin disorders
10. Traditional uses and properties of Indian medicinal plants in the treatment of Vitiligo
11. Indian MAPs with hepato-protectant potentials
12. Selected Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Mucormycosis, in India
13. Selected Indian Medicinal And Aromatic Plants For Prophylactic Therapy
14. Conservation Strategies Of Indian Medicinal Plants
Habil. Dr., Prof.Dr. Ákos Máthé has 40+ years' background in teaching and research in plant ecophysiology and agricultural botany. He is Professor Emeritus at the Albert Kazmer Faculty of Szechenyi Istvan University, Mosonmagyarovar, Hungary.Two times Fulbright Scholar (1986 and 1995), visiting professor at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (1995-1997). Teaching/Research/Consulting and Publications in ecophysiology, plant domestication/introduction, production of MAPs, new crops, and new uses of plants, including feed additives. Served as president of ICMAP (2014 - 2019) and Chairman of ISHS Section MAPs (2006-2014). Founding secretary of the Hungarian Medicinal Plant Association.Collaborated in international projects: FEED SEG, CEEPUS, ERASMUS+, HERBAID, GOOD HERBS, Herbs4Youth, EOHUB, etc. Authored some 100 publications, former editor of Herba Hungarica, Acta Agronomica Hungarica.Convener/speaker at international scientific congresses, and conferences. Network co-ordinator of ESCORENA MAP.
Irfan Ali Khan obtained his MSc from Aligarh Muslim University and PhD in Botany from Osmania University, Hyderabad, specializing in 'Genetics and Plant Breeding'. Professor Khan is the Former Director of Nawab Shah Alam Khan Centre for Graduate Studies and Research (Affiliated with Osmania University), Anwarul Uloom College Campus, Mallepally, Hyderabad. Presently he is the Managing Director of Ukaaz Publications, Hyderabad. He has published 163 research papers in reputed national and international journals and is now on the panel of 'Experts on Mungbean' for all countries of South-East Asia and the Middle East. Professor Khan has been the editor of Frontiers in Plant Science, has edited 74 reference books and has co-authored three textbooks with his wife, Professor Atiya Khanum. He is a Fellow of the Indian Society of Genetics (F.I.S.G.). Besides this, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Phytomedicine: An International Journal. Professor Khan is the senior author of the famous textbook Fundamentals of Biostatistics by Khan and Khanum which was released by world-renowned agricultural scientist, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan on February 13, 1994, in Hyderabad. This textbook has been included as a textbook and also as a reference book in more than 400 universities and research institutes in India and abroad. Besides this, he has given a formula of LSD (Least Significant Difference) with suitable examples which is more or less a substitute for Student's 't' test to compare to two treatments.