Cultivation and conservation of underutilized medicinal and agricultural plants in India.

Q2 Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Section B Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-07-31 DOI:10.1007/s40011-022-01405-8

Rashi Gupta, Arti Nigam, Rachna Kapila

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Abstract

In the current era, the increased demand of healthy food rich in antioxidants, vitamins and minerals and those having therapeutic value has led to over-exploitation of major agricultural and medicinal plants. This overburden can be reduced by an efficient utilization of underutilized plants with nutritional and medicinal importance. These underutilized plants are neglected or undervalued 'minor' crops having low production and sale. These less documented and less studied group of underutilized plants are considered as a rich source of various phytochemicals and secondary metabolites having bioactive compounds. These underutilized wild herbs that have not gained much attention from commercial as well as scientific community were selected for the present study. The present review elucidates the significance of these plants and recent biotechnological methods to conserve them. The present study on such food and medically important herbs would contribute in a wide recognition of their benefits for our society.

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印度未充分利用的药用和农业植物的种植和保护。

在当今时代，对富含抗氧化剂、维生素和矿物质以及具有治疗价值的健康食品的需求不断增加，导致了对主要农业和药用植物的过度开发。有效利用具有营养和药用价值的未充分利用的植物可以减少这种覆盖。这些未充分利用的植物是被忽视或被低估的“次要”作物，产量和销量都很低。这些文献记载和研究较少的未充分利用的植物群被认为是各种植物化学物质和具有生物活性化合物的次生代谢物的丰富来源。本研究选择了这些未被充分利用的野生草本植物作为研究对象。本文综述了这些植物的重要意义和最新的生物技术保护方法。目前对这些食物和医学上重要的草药的研究将有助于广泛认识到它们对我们社会的好处。

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Section B BIOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.20

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0.00%

发文量

133

审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Section B: Biological Sciences, is one of the oldest journals of India, launched in the year 1930, by the National Academy of Sciences, India (the Oldest Science Academy of India). The research/review papers of different fields of science, e.g. Agriculture Sciences (Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Forestry, Agric. Toxicology, Soil Science, Plant Protection, Post Harvest Technology, and Agricultural Engineering), Animal Sciences (Structural, Developmental, Functional, Genetical, Ecological, Behavioural, Taxonomical and Evolutionary Aspects), Biochemistry, Biophysics, Biotechnology (including Molecular and Cell Biology, Structural and Functional Studies, Microbiology and Immunology), Medical & Forensic Sciences (Basic and Clinical Medical Sciences, Pharmacology, Anthropology, Psychology and Forensic Sciences, Human genetics, Reproduction Biology, Neurosciences and Molecular Medicine) and Plant Sciences (Structural, Developmental, Functional, Genetical, Ecological, Taxonomical and Evolutionary Aspects), are published in this journal for dissemination of the scientific knowledge and research. The papers published are indexed/abstracted by the leading abstracting agencies of the world. The papers are published after critical review and editing by the eminent experts of the concerned subject area; therefore, the quality publication is assured once the paper is accepted by the learned referees.