§ History and role of medicinal and aromatic plants in human health
Sheng Qin
The key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Medicinal Plant of Jiangsu Province, School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, China
Email: shengqin@jsnu.edu.cn
§ Secondary metabolites of medicinal and aromatic plants and their disease fighting properties
Paul Horrocks
School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Hornbeam Building,
Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK
Email: p.d.horrocks@keele.ac.uk
§ Healthcare challenges in developing countries: Role of medicinal and aromatic plants
Wen-Quan Wang
School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
Email: wwq57@126.com
§ Marketing of medicinal plants: A growing commercial sector
Chandra Prakash Kala
National Medicinal Plants Board, Ministry of Health & FamilyWelfare, Government of India, 36- Janpath, Chandralok Building, NewDelhi- 110 001, India
Email: cpkala@yahoo.co.uk
§ International market prospects for medicinal and aromatic plants
Ralf R. Mendel
Department of Plant Biology, Braunschweig University of Technology, GermanyEmail: r.mendel@tu-bs.de
§ The conservation and utilization of medicinal plant resources
Elisabeth Hsu
Institute of social and cultural anthropology, Faculty of oriental studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Email: Elisabeth.hsu@anthro.ox.ac.uk
§ Economic importance of medicinal plants in developing countries
Tewin Tencomnao
Age-Related Inflammation and Degeneration Research Unit, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok- 10330, Thailand
Email: tewintencomnao@gmail.com
§ Phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicity of important medicinal plants
Tomokazu Kohiba-Koshiba
Department of Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, Japan
Email: tomokazu@c.metro-u.ac.jp
§ Improving quality of medicinal and aromatic plants though technological developments
Shashi Pandey Rai
Laboratory of Morphogenesis, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Email: shashi.bhubotany@gmail.com
§ Understanding the mechanisms of action of medicinal plants
Lucie Beaulieu
Département des Sciences des Aliments, Institut sur la Nutrition et les Aliments Fonctionnels (INAF), 2425, rue de l'Agriculture, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
Email: lucie.beaulieu@fsaa.ulaval.ca
§ Industrial utilization of medicinal and aromatic plants
H. J. Barrales-Cureño
Laboratorio de Productos Naturales, Área de Química, Departamento de Preparatoria Agrícola. AP74 Oficina de correos Chapingo, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Km 38.5 Carretera México-Texcoco, Texcoco Estado de México, 56230.
Email: hebert.jair@uiep.edu.mx
§ Introduction of green technology for extraction of active constituents from medicinal and aromatic plants
Mauji Ram
Green Technology Department, Ipca Laboratories Ltd., Sejavta-457002, Dist. Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh
About the Author: Dr. Tariq Aftab received his Ph.D. from the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India. He is the recipient of a prestigious Leibniz-DAAD fellowship from Germany, Raman Fellowship from the Government of India, and Young Scientist Awards from the State Government of Uttar Pradesh (India) and Government of India. He has worked as Visiting Scientist at IPK, Gaterleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA. He is also a member of various scientific associations from India and abroad. He has published research articles in multiple peer-reviewed national and international journals and is the lead editor of the book Artemisia annua: Pharmacology and Biotechnology. His research interests include physiological, proteomic, and molecular studies on medicinal and aromatic plants.
Khalid Rehman Hakeem (Ph.D.) is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completing his doctorate (Botany; specialization in Plant Eco-physiology and Molecular Biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, in 2011, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, for a short period. Later, he joined Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, and worked there as Postdoctorate Fellow in 2012 and Fellow Researcher (Associate Professor) from 2013 to 2016. Dr. Hakeem has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels; also, he has served as the visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he is involved with a number of international research projects with different government organizations. So far, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited more than 35 books with international publishers, including Springer Nature, Academic Press (Elsevier), and CRC Press. He also has to his credit more than 80 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 55 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. At present, Dr. Hakeem serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of several high-impact international scientific journals from Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Cambridge, and John Wiley Publishers. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also a fellow of Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, member of the World Academy of Sciences, member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan, and member of Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea. Dr. Hakeem has been listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, since 2014-2019. Currently, Dr. Hakeem is engaged in studying the plant processes at eco-physiological as well as molecular levels.
