Aromatic Plants Cultivation, Processing and Uses/H. Panda. Delhi, Asia
Pacific Business Press, 2004, xii, 504 p., $55 (pbk). ISBN 81-7833-057-1.
Aromatic Plants Cultivation, Processing and Uses/H. Panda. Delhi, Asia
Pacific Business Press, 2004, xii, 504 p., $55 (pbk). ISBN 81-7833-057-1.
Contents: 1. Cultivation of tagetes minuta. 2. Cultivation of eucalyptus citriodora. 3. Cultivation of rosmarinus officinalis. 4. Cultivation of coriander sativum. 5. Cultivation of lavender species. 6. Cultivation of matricaria chamomilla. 7. Vanilla-world's second-most expensive spice. 8. Cultivation of artemisia annua. 9. Cultivation of mentha arvensis. 10. Cultivation of French basil (Ocimum Bacilicum L.). 11. Jasmine-crop improvement and agrotechniques. 12. Semecarpus anacardium L.f. 13. Himalayan cedarwood oil. 14. Essential oils of agarwood, cinnamomum tamala leaves, eucalyptus citriodora and caultheria pragrantissima. 15. Past and future of sandal wood oil industry. 16. Production technology and package of practices in chilli. 17. By-product development from turmeric and ginger rhizomes. 18. Synthesis of 4-acye-3, 7,7-trimethylbicyclo [4, 1, 0] hept-3-ene and related compounds by friedel crafts reaction on (+) - car -3-ene. 19. Free and glycosidically bound volatiles of clove (Eugenia caryophyllata). 20. Cultivation of spices. 21. Bunium persicum (Boiss.) Fedtsch - botany, conservation strategies and cultivation. 22. Essential oils of artemisia species in Kashmir Himalaya. 23. Cultivation and utilization of Kaempferia galanga L. 24. Cultivation and improvement of sweet marjoram. 25. Cultivation of Davana for essential oil. 26. Essential oil of Hyptis Suaveolens poit. 27. Tagetes minuta (wild marigold) an economic crop for hilly regions. 28. Present status of Jamrosa - a review. 29. Cultural practices of CKP-25 (Lemongrass) under irrigated conditions. 30. Development of new cultivars of Cymbopogons as source of terpene chemicals. 31. Indian Cymbopogons-botany, agrotechnology, utilization, constraints and future scope. 32. Growth and performance of Cymbopogon citratus Stapf., the West Indian lemongrass and Cymbopogon pendulus (Nees ex Steud.) wats., the Jammu lemongrass in West Bengal). 33. Indian turpentine oil as a raw material for terpene chemicals. 34. Cultivation of musk mallow in Jammu. 35. Morpho-economic features of Burma citronella (Cymbopogon winterianus Jowitt). 36. Oxidation Y-Terpinene and isolongifolene with t-Butyl chromate. 37. Scope for commercial cultivation of aromatic plants in upper Pulney hills.
"In recent years, there has been a tremendous growth of interest in plant based drugs, pharmaceuticals, perfumery products, cosmetics and aroma compounds used in food flavours and fragrances and natural colours in the world.
There is a definite trend to adopt plant based products due to the cumulative derogatory effects resulting from the use of antibiotic and synthetics and except for a few cultivated crops, the availability of plant based material is mainly from the natural sources like forests and wastelands.
There is a need to introduce these crops into the cropping system of the country which, besides meeting the demands of the industry, will also help to maintain the standards on quality, potency and chemical composition."