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Medicinal Properties of the Plant Under Adverse Environmental Conditions

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Medicinal plants are used globally as a valuable source of medicine for various diseases. They have become an essential asset for life’s existence on earth since ancient times and play a crucial role to prepare medicines in the pharmaceutical industry of the modern era. However, poor environmental conditions have a negative impact on the growth, development, total yield, and production of bioactive compounds in medicinal plants. Therefore, the influence of various adverse environmental conditions on the medicinal properties of medicinal plants has been discussed in this chapter.

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  1. French Associates Institutes for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research (BIDR), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel

    Abhijeet Mahana

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  1. Department of Mulberry Physiology, Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Mysore, India

    Divya Singh

  2. Department of Botany, Mizoram University, Aizawl, India

    Amit Kumar Mishra

  3. Department of Plant Cell Biotechnology, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India

    Akhileshwar Kumar Srivastava

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Mahana, A. (2023). Medicinal Properties of the Plant Under Adverse Environmental Conditions. In: Singh, D., Mishra, A.K., Srivastava, A.K. (eds) Stress-responsive Factors and Molecular Farming in Medicinal Plants . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4480-4_2

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