Medicinal Plants and Environmental Challenges - Ghorbanpour, Mansour; Varma, Ajit.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017)
Importance of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in the Life of Human and Environmental Ecosystems -- Introduction to Environmental Challenges all over the World -- Rarity of Endemic Medicinal Plants and Role of Herbaria  for their Conservation against Environmental Challenges -- Metabolic Responses of Medicinal Plants to Global Warming, Temperature and Heat Stress -- Toxic Gases, Ozone, Carbon Dioxide, and Waste Effects on the Production of Secondary Plant Metabolites -- Plant Secondary Metabolites and Some Plant Growth Regulators Elicited by UV Irradiation, Light and/or Shade -- Effect of Climate Change on Algae: A valuable Source of Medicinal Natural Compounds -- Metabolic and Hormonal Responses of Plants to Cold Stress -- The Impact of Drought Stress on the Quality of Spice and Medicinal Plants -- Effects of Salinity Stress on Growth and Physiology of Medicinal Plants -- Heavy Metals Contaminated Soils Effects on Secondary Metabolites Production, Oxidative Status and Phytoextraction Potentials of Medicinal Plants -- Horizontal Natural Product Transfer: A so far Unconsidered Source of Contamination of Medicinal Plants -- Strategies for Enhancing Artemisinin Production in Artemisia annuaunder Changing Environment -- Response of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants to Natural and Manufactured Nanosacel Materials -- Influences of Agrochemicals, Seasonality and Good Agricultural Practices on some Phytochemical of Medicinal Plants -- Introduction to Infectious Medicinal Plants Diseases: Identification and Management -- Weed and Weeding Effects on Medicinal Plants -- The Insect Pests of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants -- Biotechnological Production of Essential oils against Aedesaegypti L. -- Adaptation Strategies and Defense Mechanisms of Plants to Environmental Stresses -- Metabolic Adaptation of Tea (Camellia sinensis) to Environmental Perturbations -- Genomic Approaches towards Development of Climate Resilient Medicinal Plants.
Keywords: Pharmacology; Plant science; Botany; Ecology .; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Plant Sciences; Ecology