Genetic Improvement and Conservation Practices of Medicinal Plants

1. Manu Pant is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Life Sciences, at Graphic Era University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. She received her master's degree from Banasthali Vidyapith in Rajasthan, India, and her doctorate from HNB Garhwal University (A Central University) in Srinagar, India. She has extensive experience in the field of plant sciences, having worked as a research fellow at the Forest Research Institute and the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education on nationally funded projects. She currently works as an Associate Professor in the Graphic Era Deemed to be University's Department of Life Sciences in Dehradun, India. She has several peer-reviewed international papers (h-index 11) to her credit, has published patents, and has delivered numerous oral and poster presentations, keynote addresses, and invited talks at national and international scientific events. She has completed state-funded research projects on orchids and has published patents on orchid propagation strategies. Dr. Pant has conducted many conferences, seminars, and trainings related to orchid biology. She has been supervising Ph.D., M.Sc., M.Tech., and B.Tech students in their research work. For her work in the field of plant sciences, Dr. Pant has received appreciation in form of awards by State and National level bodies.2. Sayed Sartaj Sohrab is working as a Professor at King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA since Feb 2012. He has 17 years of experience in the various area of plant biology. He has published more than 100 research papers and six book chapters edited by different editors and submitted more than 250 genome sequences in GenBank. He has completed 11 projects and 13 running projects as PI and Co-PI funded by various agencies. He got best poster award in “9th International Virology Congress and Expo” during March 13-14, 2017, London, UK. He is an active reviewer of many research papers from scientific journals. He is member of Indian Phyto pathological society, Indian Virological society, Saudi Society for Genomics and Molecular Oncology. He has worked as secretary of King Fahd publication committee. He is actively involved in the guidance of students for their thesis work and laboratory activities at King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, KSA.3. Azamal Husen served as Professor & Head, Department of Biology, University of Gondar, Ethiopia and is a Foreign Delegate at Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia. He specializes in biogenic nanomaterial fabrication and application, plant responses to environmental stresses and nanomaterials at the physiological, biochemical and molecular levels, herbal medicine, and clonal propagation for improvement of tree species, and has published over 200 research articles. He is contributed to R&D projects of World Bank, ICAR, ICFRE, JBIC etc. He is on the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. Husen has been on the Editorial Board and the panel of reviewers of several reputed journals. He is a Fellow of the Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, and a Member of the International Society of Root Research, Asian Council of Science Editors, and INPST. He is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Plant Physiology, and a Series Editor of Exploring Medicinal Plants (Taylor & Francis Group, USA); Plant Biology, Sustainability, and Climate Change (Elsevier, USA); and Smart Nanomaterials Technology (Springer Nature, Singapore).

• About the editors List of contributors Preface Chapter 1: Sustainable conservation and management strategies of high-value medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) Manu Pant*, Aarushi Gautam, Poorva Saxena, Prachi Rawat, Sanskriti Thapliyal, Deepshika Kothari, Azamal Husen, Shweta Bajaj, Arasu Raman Chapter 2: In vitro Clonal Propagation as an Effective Tool for the Conservation and Production of Elite Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Siddhartha Kafle, Yanu Bam, Diwash Gautam, Akriti Koirala, Divya Panta, Aastha Upreti, Tara Shrestha, Dhurva Prasad Gauchan* Chapter 3: Tissue Culture and Genetic Engineering of Cannabis sativa Rambod Abiri Chapter 4: Pharmaceutical Properties and Genetic Engineering for Eucalyptus; Status, Current Enchantments and Prospects Rambod Abiri* and Hazandy Abdul-Hamid* Chapter 5: Selection and conservation of elite clones of Bacopa monnieri using biotechnological approaches Sonalika Roy Chapter 6: Cryopreservation for germplasm conservation of commercially important medicinal plants Yash Bisht, Nandini Sharma, Pallavi Dheer, Shreya Mundepi, Shubham Mangla, Somya Vaishnav, Aditi Sharma, Manu Pant Chapter 7: Hairy root culture as an effective method for production of plant bioactive compounds Bhaswatimayee Mahakur, Aryaputri Bedaprabha, Durga P. Barik*, Sugam Gupta, Rahul Kumar, Debasis Mitra, Devvret Verma* Chapter 8: Transformation of medicinal plants using Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Anupriya Chatterjee*, Shradha Nirwan, Mukesh Saran Chapter 9: Chloroplast engineering for improvement of plant varieties Ravinsh Kumar, Ashutosh Singh, Amrita Srivastava* Chapter 10: DNA Bar-Coding of Plants used for Herbal Drug Preparation Bhaskar Pal, Rajdip Goswami, Madhurima Kotal, Biswajit Basu, Sourav Ghosh, Saikat Santra* Chapter 11: Biotechnological Approaches to Enhance Pharmaceutically Significant Metabolites in Medicinally Active Plants Dhurva Prasad Gauchan*, Sarita Subedi, Samrat Panta, Alaka Bhantana, Shreya Pathak, Looza Pradhan, Ramakanta Lamicchane Chapter 12: Genetic control of stress hormone production in medicinal plants Mukesh Saran*, Arshi Khanam, Rishabh Shrivastava Ronin*, Anupriya Chatterjee, Ashima Bagaria Chapter 13: Genetic engineering for abiotic stress tolerance in medicinal and aromatic Plants Shiwani Latwal, Anju Rao, Prabhleen Kaur Chapter 14: Role of rhizospheric microflora in medicinal plants metabolite production Shivansh Negi, Divyansh Pathak, Daksh Kushwaha, Aman Sharma, Sonam Khan, Urja Agarwal, Pramod Rawat, Abhishek Kumar and Yashaswi Singh* Index