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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is Professor and Managing Director at the Centre for Phytotherapy Research (CEPHYR) in Mauritius. She has authored several books on medicinal plants and on the flora of Mauritius and Africa and has received several international prizes. In 2013, she receives the Honorary Doctorate from the Universite Pierre Marie Curie (Sorbonne Universites) and is also Honorary Professor at UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Content -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Part One Novel Plant Bioresources: Applications in Medicine, Cosmetics, etc. -- Chapter 1 Plant Diversity in Addressing Food, Nutrition and Medicinal Needs -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture -- 1.3 Plant genetic diversity for nutrition -- 1.4 Plant diversity for medicines -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2 World Health Organization Perspective for Traditional Medicine -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Policies on traditional medicine -- 2.3 Tools and guidelines -- 2.4 Implementation of the regional strategy on traditional medicine -- 2.5 The way forward -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Cultivation of Novel Medicinal Plant Products and Associated Challenges -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Basic principles of novel crop cultivation -- 3.3 Case study 1: Pelargonium sidoides -- 3.4 Case study 2: Sutherlandia frutescens -- 3.5 Case study 3: Euphorbia resinifera -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter 4 Enabling Technologies to Facilitate Natural Product-Based Drug Discovery from African Biodiversity -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Enabling-technology platforms -- 4.3 Natural product diversification and drug metabolite generation platform -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Assessing Biodiversity: A Molecular Approach Using DNA Sequencing -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Taxonomy and evolution -- 5.3 Assessing diversity -- 5.4 DNA sequencing and barcoding -- 5.5 Plant genomics -- 5.6 Analysis of marker data -- References -- Chapter 6 Conservation of Endangered Wild Harvested Medicinal Plants: Use of DNA Barcoding -- 6.1 Wild harvested medicinal plants: background and challenges -- 6.2 DNA barcoding general -- 6.3 DNA barcoding and species delimitation -- 6.4 DNA barcodes for plants.
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Novel plant bioresources Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2014 ISBN 1118460618
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English
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Biology
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