Essential Oil Research -

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Résumé :
Preface.- Part 1. Essential oils composition and why plants produce them.- Chapter 1. Essential oils.- Chapter 2. Factors influencing the production and chemical composition of essential oil in aromatic plants from Brazil.- Chapter 3. Hedychium Essential Oils: Composition and Uses.- Chapter 4. The Essential Oils of the Burseraceae.- Part 2. Uses of essential oils in various industries.- Chapter 5. Essential oil of betel leaf (Piper betle L.): A novel addition to the world food sector.- Chapter 6. Artemisia annua and A. afra essential oils and their therapeutic potential.- Chapter 7. Outstanding Efficacy of Essential Oils Against Oral Pathogens.- Chapter 8. Chemical diversity and insecticidal and anti-tick activities of essential oils of plants from Northeast Brazil.- Part 3. Extraction and Bioanalytical Techniques.- Chapter 9. Adulteration Analysis in Essential Oils.- Chapter 10. Essential Oils from Pines: Chemistry and Applications.- Part 4. Strategies and Technologies for Essential Oil Production.- Chapter 11. Biotechnological approaches to increase essential oil yield and quality in aromatic plants: the Lavandula latifolia (Spike lavender) example. Past and recommendations for the future.- Chapter 12. The phytochemical composition, biological effects, and biotechnological pproaches to the production of high value essential oil from geranium.- Chapter 13. Biotechnological production of aromatic oils from plants.- Chapter 14. The role of biotechnology in essential oils production from non-herbaceous plants.- Chapter 15. Eremothecium oil biotechnology as a novel technology for the modern essential oil production.- Index....

Biographie:

Dr. Malik holds a doctoral degree in Plant Biotechnology from CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, India. Her main area of research is plant secondary metabolites and genetic manipulation. After post-doctoral studies in Brazil, Czech Republic, and United Kingdom, Dr. Malik joined the Biological and Health Sciences Center at Federal University of Maranh?o (UFMA, Brazil). She is a member of the graduate research program at UFMA and is actively involved in research, teaching and supervising students at graduate and undergraduate levels. At present, she is working as a visiting researcher at University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, Australia. She has published more than 30 research/review articles and book chapters. She is also an editorial board member and reviewer of many International Scientific Journals. Dr. Malik has published two other books with Springer:?Biotechnology and Production of Anti-Cancer Compounds (2017) and Production of Plant Derived Natural Compounds Through Hairy Root Culture (2018).