Environmental Challenges and Medicinal Plants

Book Title: Environmental Challenges and Medicinal Plants

Sustainable Production Solutions under Adverse Conditions

TOC and List of Contributors:

§ Current status of medicinal plants in perspective of environmental challenges and global climate changes

Rizwana Khanum

Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Garden Avenue Shakarparain Road, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan

§ Impact of adverse conditions on medicinal plants

R. D. Tripathi

Ecotoxicology & Bioremediation Group, National Botanical Research Institute (C.S.I.R.), Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, 226 001, India

§ Hydroponic, Aeroponic and Organoponic Cultivation Systems for Medicinal Plants under challenging conditions

Jesús Antonio Salazar-Magallón

Laboratorio de Control Biológico, Colegio de Postgraduados. Boulevard Forjadores de Puebla # 205, Santiago Momoxpan, San Pedro Cholula Puebla, Mexico

§ Physiological and biochemical changes in medicinal plants regarding accumulation of compounds of interest adverse conditions

Hari Prasad Devkota

Department of Medicinal Botany, School of Pharmacy, Kumamoto University, 5-1 Oe-honmachi, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan

§ Deficiency and toxicity of mineral elements in medicinal plants including access and excess problems in plant nutrition and management

Jelena Popovic- Djordjevic

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Food Technology and Biochemistry, Belgrade, Serbia

§ Favourable Impacts of Drought Stress on the Quality of Medicinal Plants - Improvement of Composition and Content of their Natural Products

Abouzeid , S.², Lewerenz, L.¹, Yahyazadeh, M.³, Radwan. A.^{1, 4,} , Hijazin, T.^1,5 , Kleinwächter, M.⁶, Selmar, D.^{1 *}

¹⁾ Institut für Pflanzenbiologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstraße 4,

D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany

²⁾ Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516,

Egypt

³⁾ Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and

Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran

⁴⁾ Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute, AGERI- ARC, Giza, Egypt

⁵⁾ Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Mutah University, P.O.Box 7, Mutah 61710,

Al-Karak, Jordan

⁶⁾ Repha GmbH, 30832 Langenhagen, Germany

Hijazin, T.^1,2, Lewerenz, L.¹, Yahyazadeh, M.³, Selmar, D.^1*

D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany

²⁾ Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Mutah University, P.O. Box7, Mutah 61710,

³⁾ Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural R