Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World Scientific, Production, C
Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) have accompanied mankind from its very early beginnings. Their utilization has co-evolved with homo sapiens itself. Evolution has brought about a profound increase in our scientific knowledge about these species, so th
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Ákos Máthé Editor
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World Scientific, Production, Commercial and Utilization Aspects
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Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World Volume 1
Series Editor ´ kos Ma´the´ A Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science University of West Hungary Budapest, Hungary
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) have been utilized in various forms since the earliest days of mankind. They have maintained their traditional basic curative role even in our modern societies. Apart from their traditional culinary and food industry uses, MAPs are intensively consumed as food supplements (food additives) and in animal husbandry, where feed additives are used to replace synthetic chemicals and production-increasing hormones. Importantly medicinal plants and their chemical ingredients can serve as starting and/or model materials for pharmaceutical research and medicine production. Current areas of utilization constitute powerful drivers for the exploitation of these natural resources. Today’s demands, coupled with the already rather limited availability and potential exhaustion of these natural resources, make it necessary to take stock of them and our knowledge regarding research and development, production, trade and utilization, and especially from the viewpoint of sustainability. The series Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World is aimed to look carefully at our present knowledge of this vast interdisciplinary domain on a global scale. In the era of global climatic change, the series is expected to make an important contribution to the better knowledge and understanding of MAPs. Thanks are due to the editors and authors of the nine volumes and large number of chapters, who are internationally recognized professionals, specialists in the field of medicinal and aromatic plants and will be primarily invited from the members of the International Society for Horticultural Science and the International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. The Editor of the series is indebted for all of the support and encouragement received in the course of international collaborations started with his ISHS involvement, in 1977. Special thanks are due to Professor D. Fritz, Germany for making it possible. The encouragement and assistance of Springer Editor, Mrs. Melanie van Overbeek, has been essential in realizing this challenging book project. Thanks are due to the publisher - Springer Science+Business Media, The Netherlands - for supporting this global collaboration in the domain of medicinal and aromatic plants. We sincerely hope this book series can contribute and give further impetus to the exploration and utilization of our mutual global, natural treasure of medicinal and aromatic plants. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11192
´ kos Ma´the´ A Editor
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World Scientific, Production, Commercial and Utilization Aspects
Editor ´ kos Ma´the´ A Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science University of West Hungary Budapest, Hungary
ISSN 2352
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