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Environmental Challenges and Medicinal Plants - Sustainable Production Solutions under Adverse Conditions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Environmental Challenges and Medicinal Plants - Sustainable Production Solutions under Adverse Conditions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Environmental Challenges and Solutions
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Medicinal plants supply the ever-growing needs of humankind for
natural chemicals, such as pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals,
agrochemicals, and chemical additives. These plants contain
bioactive secondary metabolites, which possess antimalarial,
anthelminthic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antimicrobial,
antiarthritic, antioxidant, antidiabetic, antihypertensive,
anticancer, antifungal, antispasmodic, cardioprotective,
antithyroid, and antihistaminic properties. Secondary metabolites
play a major role in the adaptation of plants to the changing
environment and stress condition as they are affected by both
biotic and abiotic stress. Humans rely on medicinal plants for
various needs since ancient time, and their population still seems
enough for fulfilling our demands. However, in the foreseeable
future, we will be forced to think about the accessibility of
resources for future generations. For these reasons, we must look
for alternative sustainable options of resources which can protect
these immensely important medicinal plants from various stresses
induced by challenging environment. Evolving eco-friendly
methodologies and mechanisms to improve these plants' responses to
unfavorable environmental circumstances is important in creating
significant tools for better understanding of plant adaptations to
various abiotic stresses and sustaining the supply of
pharmaceuticals as global climate change intensifies. One of the
great challenges in the near future will be the sustainable
production of medicinal plants under increasing adverse effects of
climate change. A combination of adverse demographic factors and
climatological perturbations is expected to impact food and
pharmaceutical production globally. Despite the induction of
several tolerance mechanisms, medicinal plants often fail to
survive under environmental extremes. To ensure their sustainable
production under adverse conditions, multidisciplinary approaches
are needed, and useful leads are likely to emerge. However,
improving plants' performance under restrictive growth conditions
requires a deep understanding of the molecular processes that
underlie their extraordinary physiological plasticity. This edited
volume emphasizes the recent updates about the current research on
medicinal plants covering different aspects related to challenges
and opportunities in the concerned field. This book is an attempt
to bring together global researchers who have been engaged in the
area of stress signaling, crosstalk, and mechanisms of medicinal
plants. The book will provide a direction towards implementation of
programs and practices that will enable sustainable production of
medicinal plants resilient to challenging environmental conditions.
Moreover, this book will instigate and commence readers to
state-of-the-art developments and trends in this field.
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