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Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

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Technical Crops

Part of the book series: Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants ((GENMAPP,volume 6))

Abstract

Many of the industrially and commercially used pharmaceuticals are products of secondary metabolism in microbial or plant systems. Out of the 350,000 plant species known so far, about 35,000 (some estimate up to 70,000) are used worldwide for medicinal purposes and less than about 0.5% of these have been chemically investigated. About 100 plant species are involved in 25% of all drugs prescribed in advanced countries (Comer and Debus 1996). The annual market value of herbal drugs used worldwide was estimated to be around US $45 billion in the late 1990s and the value varies in different reports (US $60 billion to US $100 billion) presently. Even then the values with lower limits also denote the importance of medicinal plants. However, the use of medicinal plants is faced with constraints of identification, inventory, and characterization. The status is similar for aromatic plants. The capability of plants to either cure a disease or generate aroma is due to the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites.

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