
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Conservation and development of medicinal plants: conventional and contemporary regulations and developmental policies in India/Bikram Singh Sajwan and Chandra Prakash Kala. 2. Conservation of biodiversity of medicinal and aromatic plants/P.L. Gautam and Sunita T. Pandey. 3. Promotion of medicinal and aromatic plants in Uttarakhand/H.P. Singh and Sunita T. Pandey. 4. Propagation of medicinal plants of Himalayan Alphines: case studies/Lok Man S. Palni, Bhuwan Chandra, Hemant Pandey and Mohd. Nadeem. 5. Bioresource management of medicinal and aromatic plants using biotechnology as a tool/G.K. Garg, Anil Kumar Gaur, Anil Kumar and Sanjeev Agrawal. 6. Endangered and valuable medicinal plants: strategies for their conservation/H.K. Pandey and S.C. Das. 7. Ethnomedicinal plants of India/Soumen Maitra and Pratik Satya. 8. Streamlining marketing of medicinal and aromatic plant in Uttarakhand--a unique beginning/S.D. Singh and Sunita T. Pandey. 9. Trade of aromatic plants: its scope in domestic and global perspective/C.S. Raghav and S.V. Shukla. 10. Marketing of medicinal and aromatic plants: a case study of Rajasthan/M.S. Jairath and N.L. Agarwal. 11. Industrial exploitation of lesser-known medicinal and aromatic plants in Uttarakhand/C.S. Raghav. 12. Development of medicinal and aromatic plants in India: approach of government sector/M. Tamil Selvan. 13. Initiatives taken by Government of India in development of medicinal and aromatic plants in Uttarakhand/R.B.S. Rawat. 14. Important medicinal plants of mid to higher Himalayas of Uttarakhand/L.D. Bist and M.S. Negi. 15. Geranium Bio-village in Uttarakhand Missionary approach of CIMAP, Lucknow/S.P.S. Khanuja and A.K. Singh. 16. Medicinal and aromatic trees: status and perspectives/Salil Tewari and Rajesh Kaushal. 17. Organic farming system for maintaining soil fertility with special reference to medicinal and aromatic plants/Basant Ram and B.S. Mahapatra. 18. Cultivation of medicinal plants through organic mode/S.S. Purohit and S.P. Vyas. 19. Medicinal plants: their therapeutic uses and line of research in home science/Rachel George, Kalpana Kulshrestha, Archana Kushwaha and Poonam Tewari. 20. Medicinal and aromatic plants in healthcare of animals/S.P. Singh. 21. Medicinal and aromatic plants in fisheries management/A.P. Sharma and N.N. Pandey. 22. Human diet and health management using medicinal and aromatic plants/Pratima Awasthi, L. Bhattacharya and Rachel George. 23. Pharmaceutical and nutraceutiacal value of Stevia rebaudiana/Sunita T. Pandey and Deepali Tewari. 24. Hemp in Uttarakhand: industrial and pharmacognostic applications/C.S. Pandey, K.P. Pant, Deepali Tewari and Sunita T. Pandey. References.
"The Dynamics of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants edited by Dr. H.P. Singh, Dr. Sunita T. Pandey and Dr. Babita Singh is a rare treasure of information on biodiversity, cultivation, and uses of medicinal and aromatic plants. The book covers important aspect on current status of development of medicinal and aromatic plants, biodiversity in medicinal and aromatic plants production systems and utilization of herbs and aroma plants spread over in 14 chapters. Besides, the book also contains information on varieties, websites on medicinal and aromatic plants, various agencies working on production and uses of these plants in the country. This book will be of great help to all those who are concerned with medicinal and aromatic plants." (jacket)