Medicinal Plants and Environmental Challenges

1. Importance of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Human Life
Mansour Ghorbanpour, Javad Hadian, Shahab Nikabadi, Ajit Varma

2. Introduction to Environmental Challenges in All Over the World
Azadeh Kazemi, Mansour Ghorbanpour

3. Rarity of Endemic Medicinal Plants and Role of Herbaria for Their Conservation Against Environmental Challenges
Rizwana Khanum

4. Metabolic Responses of Medicinal Plants to Global Warming, Temperature and Heat Stress
Shabir H. Wani, Nisha Kapoor, Ritu Mahajan

5. Effects of Toxic Gases, Ozone, Carbon Dioxide, and Wastes on Plant Secondary Metabolism
Vinay Kumar, Tushar Khare, Sagar Arya, Varsha Shriram, Shabir H. Wani

6. Plant Secondary Metabolites and Some Plant Growth Regulators Elicited by UV Irradiation, Light And/Or Shade
Zornitsa Katerova, Dessislava Todorova, Iskren Sergiev

7. Effect of Climate Change on Algae Valuable Source of Medicinal Natural Compounds
Morteza Yousefzadi, Mohammad Hossein Mirjalili

8. Metabolic and Hormonal Responses of Plants to Cold Stress
Joanna Lado, Matías Manzi

9. The Impact of Drought Stress on the Quality of Spice and Medicinal Plants
Dirk Selmar, Maik Kleinwächter, Sara Abouzeid, Mahdi Yahyazadeh, Melanie Nowak

10. Effect of Salinity Stress on Growth and Physiology of Medicinal Plants
Aditya Banerjee, Aryadeep Roychoudhury

11. Heavy Metal-Mediated Changes in Growth and Phytochemicals of Edible and Medicinal Plants
Shohreh Fahimirad, Mehrnaz Hatami

12. Horizontal Natural Product Transfer: A so Far Unconsidered Source of Contamination of Medicinal Plants
Melanie Nowak, Mahdi Yahyazadeh, Laura Lewerenz, Dirk Selmar

13. Strategies for Enhancing Artemisinin Production in Artemisia annua Under Changing Environment
M. Naeem, Tariq Aftab, M. Masroor A. Khan

14. Plant Nanobionics a Novel Approach to Overcome the Environmental Challenges
Mansour Ghorbanpour, Shohreh Fahimirad

15. Medicinal Plants: Influence of Environmental Factors on the Content of Secondary Metabolites
Cristine Vanz Borges, Igor Otavio Minatel, Hector Alonzo Gomez-Gomez, Giuseppina Pace Pereira Lima

16. The Most Important Fungal Diseases Associated with Some Useful Medicinal Plants
Faezehossadat Abtahi, Seydeh Lavin Nourani

17. Weed and Weeding Effects on Medicinal Herbs
Alessandra Carrubba

18. Medicinal Plant Diseases Caused by Nematodes
Faezehossadat Abtahi, Mansoureh Bakooie

19. Plant Derived Essential Oils Against Aedes aegypti L. and Their Biotechnological Production
Clarice Noleto Dias, Ludmilla Santos Silva Mesquita, Denise Fernandes Coutinho, Sonia Malik

20. Adaptation Strategies and Defence Mechanisms of Plants During Environmental Stress
E. Lamalakshmi Devi, Sudhir Kumar, T. Basanta Singh, Susheel K. Sharma, Aruna Beemrote, Chingakham Premabati Devi, S. K. Chongtham, Chongtham Henary Singh, Rupert Anand Yumlembam, A. Haribhushan, N. Prakash, Shabir H. Wani

Nyckelord: Biomedicine, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Plant Sciences, Ecology