Part 1 - Essential oils composition and why plants produce them
1. Essential oils
Muhammad Asif Hanif*, Shafaq Nisar, Ghufrana Samin Khan, Zahid Mushtaq and Muhammad Zubair
2. Factors influencing the production and chemical composition of essential oil in aromatic plants from Brazil
Carmen Sílvia Fernandes Boaro*, Maria Aparecida Ribeiro Vieira, Felipe Girotto Campos, Gisela Ferreira, Iván De La Cruz Chacón, Márcia Ortiz Mayo Marques
3. Hedychium Essential Oils: Composition and Uses
Hamidou F. Sakhanokho and Kanniah Rajasekaran
4. The Essential Oils of the Burseraceae
Anjanette DeCarlo, Noura S. Dosoky, Prabodh Satyal, Aaron Sorensen and William N. Setzer*
Part 2 - Uses of essential oils in various industries
5. Essential oil of betel leaf (Piper betle L.): A novel addition to the world food sector
Proshanta Guha[1]∗ and Sujosh Nandi
6. Artemisia annua and A. afra essential oils and their therapeutic potential.
Matthew R. Desrosiers, Melissa J. Towler, Pamela J. Weathers*
7. Outstanding efficacy of essential oils against oral pathogens
Jelena Marinkovic, Tatjana Markovic, Biljana Miličic, Marina Sokovic*, Ana Ćiric, Dejan Markovic
8. Chemical diversity and insecticidal and anti-tick activities of essential oils of plants from Northeast Brazil
Arie Fitzgerald Blank, Maria de Fátima Arrigoni-Blank, Leandro Bacci, Livio Martins Costa Junior, Daniela Aparecida de Castro Nizio
Part 3 - Extraction and Bioanalytical Techniques
9. Adulteration Analysis in Essential Oils
Prabodh Satyal and William N. Setzer
10. Essential Oils from Pines: Chemistry and Applications
Gaurav Kumar Silori, Naveen Kushwaha, Vimal Kumar*
Part 4 -Strategies and Technologies for Essential Oil Production
11. Biotechnological approaches to increase essential oil yield and quality in aromatic plants: the Lavandula latifolia (Spike lavender) example. Past and recommendations for the future
Juan Segura, Jesús Muñoz-Bertomeu, Isabel Mendoza-Poudereux, Isabel Arrillaga
12. The phytochemical composition, biological effects, and biotechnological approaches to the production of high value essential oil from geranium
Lokesh Kumar Narnoliya, Jyoti Singh Jadaun, Sudhir P. Singh* 13. Biotechnological production of aromatic oils from plants Aditya Banerjee and Aryadeep Roychoudhury* 14. The role of biotechnology in essential oils production from non-herbaceous plants
Yannis Gounaris
About the Author: Dr. Malik holds a doctoral degree in Plant Biotechnology from CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, India. Her main area of research is plant secondary metabolites and genetic manipulation. After post-doctoral studies in Brazil, Czech Republic, and United Kingdom, Dr. Malik joined the Biological and Health Sciences Center at Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA, Brazil). She is a member of the graduate research program at UFMA and is actively involved in research, teaching and supervising students at graduate and undergraduate levels. At present, she is working as a visiting researcher at University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, Australia. She has published more than 30 research/review articles and book chapters. She is also an editorial board member and reviewer of many International Scientific Journals. Dr. Malik has published two other books with Springer: Biotechnology and Production of Anti-Cancer Compounds (2017) and Production of Plant Derived Natural Compounds Through Hairy Root Culture (2018).