Chapter One Medicinal Plants and Phytomedicines 1.1 Concepts of Medicinal Plants Passage 1 Medicinal Plants Passage 2 Medicinal Plants from Ancient Times to the Present Passage 3 Background of Agricultural and Collection Practices for Medicinal Plants Passage 4 African Medicinal Plants Passage 5 Traditions and Medicinal Plants 1.2 History of Medicinal Plants and Phytomedicines Passage 1 Historical Review of Medicinal Plants' Usage——Part I Passage 2 Historical Review of Medicinal Plants' Usage——Part II Passage 3 Historical Review of Medicinal Plants' Usage——Part III Passage 4 Historical Review of Medicinal Plants' Usage——Part IV Passage 5 Increasing Popularity of Medicinal Plants 1.3 Medicinal Plant Resources and Classification Passage 1 Medicinal Plant Resources Passage 2 The Conservation of Medicinal Plants Passage 3 Medicinal Plant Resources in Nature Passage 4 Cultivation of Medicinal Plants in Asia Passage 5 Medicinal Plants and Phytomedicines 1.4 Medicinal Plants and Health Passage 1 Medicinal Plants: A Re-emerging Health Aid——Part I Passage 2 Medicinal Plants: A Re-emerging Health Aid——Part II Passage 3 Underrated Medicinal Plants——Part I Passage 4 Underrated Medicinal Plants——Part II Passage 5 Underrated Medicinal Plants——Part III 1.5 The Importance of Medicinal Plants in the Domestic and Foreign Medical Field Passage 1 The Importance and Scope of Medicinal Plants Passage 2 Medicinal Plants Are Important for Today's Medicines Passage 3 Role of Traditional Medicine in Public Health Passage 4 Traditional Practices and Importance of Medicinal Plants Passage 5 Traditional Medicine in the Health System 1.6 More Readings Passage 1 Sustainable Utilization of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources Passage 2 Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Passage 3 Cultivation of Medicinal Plants Passage 4 Ecological Impact of Medicinal Plants Passage 5 Management of Medicinal Plants in the Himalayas of Nepal Chapter Two Cultivation of Medicinal Plants 2.1 An Overview Passage 1 Research and Implementation of Good Agricultural Practice for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials in Jilin Province Passage 2 Traditional Chinese Medicine in North America. Opportunities for Small Farms? Passage 3 WHO Guidelines on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices (GACP) for Medicinal Plants Passage 4 Herbs Farming Passage 5 The Movement Toward Organic Herb Cultivation in China 2.2 Cultivation Passage 1 Cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants for Specialty Industrial Materials Passage 2 Vegetative Forms of Propagation Passage 3 Genetic Transformation Systems for Medicinal Plants and Public Perception of Biotechnology Passage 4 Assessing African Medicinal Plants for Efficacy and Safety Passage 5 Guidelines for Sustainable Cultivation and Harvesting of Medicinal Plants 2.3 Cultivation Techniques Passage 1 Cultivating Medicinal Herbs, with a Focus on At-risk Woodland Medicinals Passage 2 Medical Cannabis Cultivation Methods Passage 3 The Application of Drought Stress During the Cultivation of Medicinal Plants Passage 4 Bringing Medicinal Plants into Cultivation: Opportunities and Challenges for Biotechnology Passage 5 Seed Germination and Seedling Growth of Some Highly Traded Chinese Medicinal Plants Chapter Three Germplasm Identification and Selective Breeding of Medicinal Plants 3.1 Application of Biotechnology on Germplasm Evaluation of Medicinal Plants Passage 1 Advent of Next-generation Sequencing Platforms Passage 2 Development and Characterization of EST-SSR Markers in the Chinese Medicinal Plant Passage 3 Evaluation of Protein Extraction Methods for Vitis Vinifera Leaf and Root Proteome Analysis by Two-dimensional Electrophoresis (Adapted) Passage 4 Genetic Variation and Metabolic Pathway Intricacy Govern the Active Compound Content and Quality of the Chinese Medicinal Plant (Adapted) Passage 5 Discussion of NGS Applications 3.2 Molecular Marker-assisted Breeding Passage 1 Crop Breeding for Salt Tolerance in the Era of Molecular Markers and Marker-assisted Selection (Adapted) Passage 2 Marker-assisted Selection (MAS) in Rice Passage 3 Modern Plant Breeding Passage 4 Scientists Breed a Better Seed, Trait by Trait Passage 5 What Exactly Is a Genetically Modified Plant.9 3.3 Tissue Cultule Technology and Breeding Passage 1 Plant Tissue Culture Passage 2 The Many Dimensions of Plant Tissue Culture Research (Adapted) Passage 3 Quantification of the Tissue-culture Induced Variation in Barley (Discussion) Passage 4 Plant Tissue Culture: Current Status and Opportunities (Adapted) Passage 5 Abstracts 3.4 Conventional Cross Breeding Passage 1 Breeding Systems of Plant Species in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Adapted) Passage 2 Analysis of the Leaf Methylomes of Parents and Their Hybrids Provides New Insight into Hybrid Vigor in Populus Deltoids (Adapted) Passage 3 Diversity of Genome Size and Tyl-copia in Epimedium Species Used for Traditional Chinese Medicines Passage 4 Natural Hybridization of Wild Cucurbita Sororia Group and Domesticated C. Mixta in Southern Sonora, Mexico Passage 5 Abstracts Chapter Four Exploitation and Utilization of Medicinal Plants 4.1 Medicinal and Edible Plants Passage 1 Cinnamon (Cinnamomum Zeylanicum) (Adapted) Passage 2 Ganoderma Lucidum, Reishi or Ling Zhi, a Fungus Used in Oriental Medicine Passage 3 Ginger (Zingiber Offieinale) Passage 4 Ginseng Passage 5 Skullcap: Potential Medicinal Crop 4.2 Concept and Preparation of Phytomedicines Passage 1 A New Dawn for the Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Cancer Therapy Apoptosis by TCM Passage 2 Ginkgo (Ginkgo Biloba) Passage 3 Introduction to Medicinal Plants Passage 4 Metabolic Engineering Approaches for Production of Bioehemicals in Food and Medicinal Plants (Adapted) Passage 5 Synthesized Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plants 4.3 Examples of Application Passage 1 Chinese Bayberry Passage 2 Health Benefits of Lavender Essential Oil Passage 3 Health Benefits of Mint (Adapted) Passage 4 Lotus Seed: Food and Medicine Passage 5 The Use of Medicinal Plants (Adapted)