ETHNOMEDICINAL PLANTS FOR DRUG DISCOVERY CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS (HB 2024)

This book explains the translational aspects of ethnomedicinal plants of different geographical regions including India by explaining the medicinal properties against several diseases, genomic evolution in changing environments, metabolic profiling for biomarker discovery, the role of non-coding RNA in the synthesis of secondary metabolites, genome-wide transcriptome profiling, application of pluripotent stem cells for drug discovery, the importance of high-throughput omics, and genome-editing techniques. In addition, some of the chapters have been designed to describe the role of artificial intelligence, plant database, and network-based drug discovery to explore the medicinal importance of compounds as well as challenges and opportunities in drug discovery from ethnomedicinal plants. The book serves as a great source of information for the students, researchers/scientists of diverse fields such as pharmacognosy, plant physiologists, biotechnologists, and pharmaceutical scientists etc., working in the areas of phytotherapy from ethnomedicinal plants.

Dr. Akhileshwar Kumar Srivastava works as a research associate (ICMR) in CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India. In his 12 years of research, he has published more than 19 research articles and 4 Books including 11 book chapters. His research specialization is primarily in pharmacognosy with genetics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, and molecular biology associated targeting virulent factors of diseases. In addition, he has studied at Augusta University (formerly, Georgia Regents University) in Augusta, GA, USA and at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He is also a life member fellow in Indian Science Congress and Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy, UK.

Dr. Ramesh Kumar Ahirwar is currently working as an assistant professor in the department of botany at Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University) Bilaspur, India since December 2019. He received Ph.D. from Awadhesh Pratap Singh University Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India, in botany. He has more than 57 research papers and three international books and two book chapter publications. His research area is focused on ethnobotany, medicinal plants, and plant-based drug discovery. He guided two Ph.D. and 14 master’s students. He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Advanced Research in biological sciences and a reviewer of three international journals. He has been invited as a speaker to present his research works at various national and international conferences.

Dr. Deepanker Yadav is currently working as an assistant professor in the department of botany, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India. He has more than ten years of experience in plant molecular biology research. He received his master’s degree from Banaras Hindu University and completed his PhD from the University of Hyderabad, India. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Muenster Germany during his doctorate tenure. He did postdoctoral research at the Institute of plant science at volcani centre, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel. He has been awarded different fellowships and grants. He has published several research papers. He is a reviewer of several international journals.

Dr. D. Guru Kumar is working as assistant professor in the division of biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Mysuru, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research. He has more than 8 years of research experience in phytomedicine and cancer. He has published 34 research articles, and 2 book chapters along with a few conference proceedings.