This book may be able to provide a lucid discourse on the subject to the person seeking a brief information on the topics. Medicinal plants are nature's hidden and to a large extent unexplored treasure. Although they have been used as a source of safe and effective medicine since time immemorial, this potential resource has hardly been commercially tapped. India is endowed with about 8000 species of medicinal plants. According to a recent estimate of the Planning Commission, Government of India, the potential for plant-based crude drugs is about Rs. 400 billion. Globally, the demand for medicinal plants and their derivatives is growing at a rate of 7-15%.

Dr. Jaspreet Gogia. PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Botany in ACEAS, Gujrat, India and she has teaching Experience of more than 11 years. She is a biotechnologist with a several years of wet lab research experience, worked at International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi. She has also worked for Advance Enzyme Technologies as a scientist. Jaspreet has published papers in Journals and submitted a numbers of annotated Geminiviral Genome Sequences in the Genbank, She did her Higher studies from (IRNAS-CSIC) Sevilla. She is also Chief Editor of Bioinformatics Review and a Co-founder/Executive Chief Editor of a Science. She is in role of the Arabidopsis Na+/H+ antiporter SOS1 in the regulation of Na+ and K+ homeostasis since 2012.