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Secretory Structures of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants -$90
by Katerina P. Svoboda and Tomas G. Svoboda
Micrographs by Andrew D. Syred
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(Excerpt from the introduction) Aromatic and medicinal plants are used in the food, flavour, perfumery. pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Their use is expected to increase every year due to a consumer-led trend towards natural foods, food and cosmetic additives, and complimentary medicine including aromatherapy. Many branches of industry are searching for alternative, cleaner antimicrobial, antibiotic, antioxidant and crop-protection agents. The possibility of utilising volatile oils is being investigated as it has been known since antiquity that they possess biological activities.

During the last decade many books have been written about herbs and spices and chemical constituents found in various plant families and their uses. However, very few research articles deal with the description of the sites where these chemicals are produced, either on the surface of the plants or internally.

This book aims to be useful to both students and scientists with an interest in aromatic and medicinal plants and may be a valuable resource to all those involved in the research, development, cultivation, marketing, and uses of these crops. An exhaustive list of references collected over the last ten years gives the reader guidance for scientific approach to this area. Use of increasingly more advanced methods of microscopic studies has resulted in remarkable insight into plant anatomy.