List of contributors
Preface
About the editors
Chapter 1: Medicinal plants for health care
Neha Chaurasiya and Altaf Ahmad
Chapter 2: Translational research for medicinal plants: integrative approaches, trends, and perspectives
Siva P. K. Chetri, Lokesh Kumar Agarwal, Akanksha Vashishtha, Vibhuti Singh, Ratan Lal, Amit Kumar Gupta and Kuldeep Sharma
Chapter 3: Unravelling medicinal plant chemical diversity for novel drug discovery through biotechnological interventions
Mir Zahoor Gul, Mohd. Yasin Bhat, Elizabeth P. Ryan, and Irfan A Ghazi
Chapter 4: Big omics data and medicinal plants
Ankita Chatterjee, Geetanjali Baruah, and Jagajjit Sahu
Chapter 5: An overview of genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics approaches for medicinal plants research
Anindita Sengupta, Faizia Bano, Neha Arora, Saima Wajid and Mohd. Mughees
Chapter 6: Genomic profiling of medicinal plants
Kritika Shukla, Mohd Ashraf Ashfaq, Md. Salik Noorani
Chapter 7: Genome-based barcoding for the authentication of medicinal plants and their products
Samia Aqeel Khan
Chapter 8: Genome-wide transcriptome profiling of the medicinal plants
Sana Basri
Chapter 9: LC-MS based metabolomics of medicinal plants
Gaurav, Rabea Parveen and Sayeed Ahmad
Chapter 10: Metabolic profiling of some medicinal plants
Sahrish Aftab
Chapter 11: Mutagenesis approach for the improvement of medicinal and aromatic plants
Ambreen Asif
Chapter 12: Nanoparticles fabrication from herbal plants and their role in antimicrobial activities
Fekadu Ashine C, Rakesh Kumar Bachheti, Archana Bachheti, Limenew Abate, Azamal Husen
Chapter 13: Tools for safety evaluation and conservation of medicinal plants
Shipra Rani Jha and Mohd. Mughees
Chapter 14: Phytochemical evaluation and biotechnological approach for the conservation of some medicinal plants
Renu
Biography
Altaf Ahmad is a Professor of Plant Biotechnology in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Dr. Ahmad has 22 years of research experience and more than 125 significant publications. A regular reviewer and on the panel of editorial boards of national and international journals, Dr. Ahmad is a member of prestigious national and international scientific societies. He has guided thesis research of 30 Ph.D. students (12 as supervisor and 18 as co-supervisor) and over 30 M.Sc. students. He organized several national and international seminars/ and handled several research projects funded by various agencies such as BBSRS-UK, DST, DBT, CSIR, UGC, CCRUM, ICAR, and INSA. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Virginia Polytechnic and State University, USA, University of Freiburg, University of Aberdeen, and the University of Cologne. Based on his research contributions, Dr. Ahmad has been honored with the INSA Medal for Young Scientist (2003) and Professor LSS Kumar Memorial Award (2003) of Indian National Science Academy, Young Scientist Award (2005) of Council of Science & Technology, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh, and elected as Associate of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Ambreen Asif is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. She earned her M.Sc. (Botany) degree from this university in 2013 and secured first position in order of merit. She was awarded her Ph.D. degree in 2019 on a topic “Characterization of genetic variability and mutagenicity induced by mutagens in Nigella sativa L. – an important medicinal herb of India”. She has published several significant research papers in journals of national and international repute such as Industrial Crop Products, Scientific Reports, Genes and Plants and is a frequent participant in scientific conferences and seminars in India. She is a thorough meritorious student and has been awarded the “University Gold Medal” for securing First position in M.Sc. (Botany), “Anjalina Khan Award” for securing First position in B.Sc. (Honors), and "Mrs. M.J. Haider Academic Memorial Award” for securing First position in Class 9th in Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. She received a Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) fellowship, a flagship programme of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India for her Ph.D. work and was also awarded NEWS-India fellowship of BBSRC, UK for advance training in the University of Aberdeen, UK for three months.
