Main description:

Numerous herbal plants are used as an important source of life saving drugs for the world's population. Herbal plants are the natural source of several medicines, mainly due to their secondary metabolites, and have long been in use as medicine in the crude extract form. They are also used to isolate the bioactive compounds in modern medicine and herbal medicine systems. They play an important role in the development, synthesis, and formulation of new drugs. Includes chapters on relevant topics contributed by experts of the subjects to make available a comprehensive treatise with in-depth analysis. Audience - those specifically in herbal plant-based drug formulation - presents biotechnological techniques to obtain the desirable products from some specific herbal plants.

Contents:

Chapters

Overview on phyto pharmaceuticals and biotechnology of herbal plants

Indian Spices: Treasure of active pharmaceutical compounds.

Trends in Breeding Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Challenges and Prospects

Controlled Environment Agriculture - An opportunity for customizing secondary metabolite production.

Advances in Micropropagation of pharmaceutically important fruit Crops

Exploring the diversity of plant alkaloids through multi-omics approach

Recent investigations on protective mechanisms of flavonoids against sarcopenia

Herbal medicinal compounds and their anti-breast cancer actions: A mechanistic perspective.

Aromatic plants as a source of natural antioxidants and their potential to reduce disease risk

Phytopharmaceuticals of Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Common Illnesses

A Disease-Driven Approach to Medicinal Natural Products.

Recent Insights into Cannabinoids: Functions, Mechanisms, Clinical Trials and Technological advancement in Cancer and Neurological diseases.

Anti-Cancer Phytopharmaceuticals: A Green Approach towards treating Cancer.

Synergism between Anticancer Drugs and Seaweed Metabolites for Cancer Treatment

Recent Perspectives on the Medicinal Potential of Plant Based Adaptogens

Workflow and methods of in silico analysis of compounds isolated from medicinal plants: an overview

Basics of Photobiology and Clinical Indications forPhototherapy in anti-aging

Role of nanotechnology in the field of phytopharmaceuticals for the delivery of herbal drugs

Phytonanotechnology: Plant mediated green construction of MNPs and their biomedical implementation against MDR Bacteria

Past, Present and Future of Aromatic Plants