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Peppermint is amongst the most extensively consumed medicinal herbs globally; its diverse usages span industry as well as the culinary and medicinal fields. Peppermint has been proven to have important insecticidal, herbicidal, cosmeceutical, pharmaceutical as well as ethnomedicinal properties. It is used as flavoring in foods, beverages, gum, toothpaste, and mouthwash; for digestive health, such as with indigestion, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), nausea, diarrhea, and flatulence; for pain relief, helping with headaches, muscle aches, joint pain, and itching; for skin health, reducing skin irritation, itchiness, and redness; in aromatherapy, to treat coughs and colds, reduce pain, improve mental function, and reduce stress; for its antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties; to improve athletic performance, to improve stamina and power during exercise; and as bug repellent, repelling insects and attract beneficial pollinators like butterflies, bees, and moths.
CONTENTS: About the Authors / Editors: Editors: Bilal Ahmad, PhD Assistant Professor of Botany, Higher Education Department of Jammu and Kashmir, India Bilal Ahmad, PhD, is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Higher Education Department of Jammu and Kashmir, India. After completing his master’s in Botany from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, Dr. Ahmad pursued his PhD in Botany in the field of Advanced Plant Physiology until 2018. Dr. Ahmad has studied the influence of various plant growth promoters, radiation-processed polysaccharides, and nanoparticles on various medicinal plants under normal and perturbed soil environments, particularly heavy metal stress. Dr. Ahmad has been associated with teaching various disciplines of botany, notably plant physiology and biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, plant taxonomy and plant ecology, since 2018. Dr. Ahmad has presented his research at a number of national and international conferences and has received several awards. He has authored 36 research publications in high-impact factor journals and edited volumes of different books with international publishers and published two books with international publishers. In addition, Dr. Ahmad has also reviewed various articles for high-impact factor journals of international repute. Tariq Ahmad Dar, PhD Assistant Professor, Sri Pratap College; Srinagar (affiliated with Cluster University Srinagar), India Tariq Ahmad Dar, PhD, has 20 publications to his credit. He has published his research findings in journals of international repute, such as Environmental and Exper¬imental Botany, Industrial Crops and Products, Carbohydrate Polymers, Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences, Plant Physiology Reports, Journal of Essential Oil Research, Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, etc. Dr. Dar has presented his papers at national and international conferences and has attended about 11 national and international conferences. In addition, he is a life member of the Indian Botan¬ical Society and Indian Science Congress Association. He has guided the dissertations of 10 MSc students. He is actively involved in the aspects of enhancing growth, yield, and active constituents of medicinal and aromatic plants using plant growth regulators such as jasmonates, gibberellins, and depolymerized polysaccharides. Currently Dr. Dar is focusing on the use of marine polysaccharides as plant growth regulators and increasing the yield of active constituents of medicinal plants. The use of radiation-processed depolymerized polysaccharides, like sodium alginate, chitosan, carrageenan to alleviate heavy metal stress and different abiotic stress conditions like salinity, drought, chilling etc., are his focus areas. Dr. Dar has teaching experience of eight years at undergraduate level and two and a half years at postgraduate level. He earned his MSc in Botany from the P.G. Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar, in 2010 and PhD.in Botany from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India in 2015. Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD, is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completing his doctorate (botany; specialization in plant eco-physiology and molecular biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India. At the Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, he was a Postdoctorate Fellow and Fellow Researcher (Associate Professor) for several years. Dr. Hakeem has more than 16 years of teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions, as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels. He has served as a visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he is involved with a number of international research projects with different government organizations. To date, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited more than 95 books with international publishers. He also has to his credit more than 185 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 80 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. At present, Dr. Hakeem serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for several high-impact international scientific journals. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also a fellow of the Plantae Group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, member of the World Academy of Sciences, member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan, and member of the Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea. Dr. Hakeem has been listed in Marquis Who in the World since 2014–2020. Currently, Dr. Hakeem is engaged in studying the plant processes at eco-physiological as well as molecular levels. |
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