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Establishment of Hydroponic Cultivation of Ashwagandha for Active Ingredient Enriched Leaves

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Hydroponics, growing plants in water with appropriate nutrients and other cultivation conditions including temperature and CO2, is a convenient way to (i) avoid the unpredictable extreme weather conditions that affect the cultivation of plants in soil, (ii) safe guard against environmental stresses including industrial pollutants and pesticides and (iii) ensure stable content of active components that are important for value of plants as either functional food or medicine. Considerable advances have been made in establishment of hydroponics cultivation conditions for a variety of leafy vegetables. However, their use has not expanded to medicinal herbs. In this chapter, we review the very first hydroponic cultivation of Ashwagandha, a medicinal herb.

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  1. DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST) Central 5-41, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8565, Japan

    Sunil C. Kaul & Renu Wadhwa

  2. School of Integrative & Global Majors, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8577, Japan

    Sukant Garg

  3. DAI-DAN Co., Ltd., 390 Kitanagai, Miyoshi-machi, Iruma-gun, Saitama, 354-0044, Japan

    Kazuya Tamura

  4. Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Nakakugakuencho, Sakai-city, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan

    Teruo Wada

  5. Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology & Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Zeenia Kaul

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Kaul, S.C., Garg, S., Tamura, K., Wada, T., Kaul, Z., Wadhwa, R. (2017). Establishment of Hydroponic Cultivation of Ashwagandha for Active Ingredient Enriched Leaves. In: Kaul, S., Wadhwa, R. (eds) Science of Ashwagandha: Preventive and Therapeutic Potentials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59192-6_24

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