Medicinal Plants and Antimicrobial Therapies

This book serves as an excellent comprehensive material covering the current understandings and updates on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the use of medicinal plant resources for tackling it. Chapters cover important aspects of AMR and strategies to address this threatening issue with medicinal plants and their resources. One health perspectives for addressing AMR have been presented for the readers. Antimicrobial medicinal plant therapeutic resources including crude extracts, active fractions, pure molecules and essential oils, besides using them as functionalizing agents for nano-antimicrobials have been covered. Further, plant endophytes as a source of antimicrobial compounds have been discussed. Chapters cover both the bactericidal as well as resistance-reversal (or potentiating/ combinatorial therapies) potencies of medicinal plant resources. The book also focuses on how medicinal plant resources effectively target major determinants of AMR. Use of metabolomics in understanding and targeting AMR mechanisms and identifying potent phyto-therapeutics has been discussed as well. The book is a valuable read for both experienced and younger researchers working in the field of AMR and related fields in biomedicine, pharmacy, and clinical research.


Dr. Vinay Kumar

Department of Biotechnology, Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411016, India 

Dr. Vinay Kumar is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Modern College (Savitribai Phule Pune University), Ganeshkhind, Pune, India and a Visiting Faculty at the Department of Environmental Sciences, S. P. Pune University, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Savitribai Phule Pune University in 2009. He has published more than 75 peer reviewed research/ review articles, 30 book chapters and has edited 7 books in collaboration with international publishers. He has around 5000 citations with h-index of 35. He is a recipient of Young Scientist Award of Science and Engineering Board, Government of India, INSA Visiting Scientist Award from the Indian National Science Academy. He is editorial board member of prestigious research journals. Besides, he is serving as a reviewer for several international journals of repute. His research interests include antimicrobial resistance in nosocomial and community settings, elucidating molecular mechanisms underlying antimicrobial resistance and combating it with natural products and functionalized nanomaterials.

Dr. Varsha Shriram

Department of Botany, Prof. Ramkrishna More College, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Akurdi, Pune 411044, India 

Dr. Varsha Shriram is working as a Professor in the Department of Botany, Prof. Ramkrishna More College (Savitribai Phule Pune University), Akurdi, Pune, India. She has completed her PhD in natural products chemistry and biotechnology from CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India and Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. She has published more than 40 peer-reviewed research/review articles and is on reviewer board for reputed journals and funding agencies like Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India. Her areas of research interest include medicinal plants, isolation and identification of phytochemicals, their activity studies including anticancer and antimicrobial, antimicrobial resistance and underlying mechanisms, and antimicrobial resistance reversal with phytochemicals. She has completed extramural research projects in these and allied areas.   

Dr. Abhijit Dey

Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, West Bengal 700073, India

Dr. Abhijit Dey is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India. He is actively working in the fields of therapeutic application of plant natural products and ethnopharmacology for last 18 years. His research areas involve broad areas and branches like Chemistry, Phytochemistry, Plant Science, Plant secondary metabolomics, Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Mathematical Modelling, Process optimization, Ecology and Biodiversity, Stress Physiology, Network Pharmacology etc. He has published in various high-impact journals and serves as a reviewer and board member for numerous esteemed journals. He has more than 75 research/review articles to his credit.