Abstract
Medicinal plants hold a very important place in therapeutics. Plant growth is affected by a number of abiotic and biotic factors. Among these factors, microorganisms associated with these plants play an important role in the plant health and thus indirectly influence humans as well. Many of these microbes are known to be involved in the production of compounds that are not only useful for the host plant, but also have commercial importance. For in-depth analysis of these plant-associated microbiomes, metagenomic approaches provide the necessary platform of robust, high-throughput techniques. This chapter discusses the microbial communities associated with different medicinal plants, and how metagenomics can be helpful in studying their diversity and versatility.
Keywords
- Diversity
- Medicinal plants
- Metagenomic approaches
- Plant-associated microbiomes
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