ch. 1. Landmark research in medicinal plants / Ram J. Singh -- ch. 2. Medicinal plants : nature's pharmacy / Ram J. Singh, Ales Lebeda, and Arthur O. Tucker -- ch. 3. Indian traditional and ethno medicines from antiquity to modern drug development / Janardan Singh, Umesh C. Lavania, and Suman Singh -- ch. 4. Medicinal fruit trees of Southeast Asia / Christophe Wiart -- ch. 5. Medicinal plants of China / Zhongzhen Zhao. [et al.] -- ch. 6. Medicinal plants of the Middle East / Shahina A. Ghazanfar -- ch. 7. An overview of the medicinal plants of Turkey / Munir Ozturk. [et al.] -- ch. 8. An overview of the ethnobotany of Turkmenistan and the use of Juniperus turcomanica in phytotherapy / Svetlana Aleksandrovna Pleskanovskaya. [et al.] -- ch. 9. Medicinal plants of Ghana / P. Addo-Fordjour. [et al.] -- ch. 10. Medicinal plants of Australia : Melaleuca alternifolia for the production of tea tree oil / Enzo A. Palombo -- ch. 11. Medicinal plants of New South Wales, Australia / Joanne Packer. [et al.] -- ch. 12. Medicinal properties of legumes / J. Bradley Morris, Barbara Hellier, and John Connett -- ch. 13. Artemisia spp. / Zohara Yaniv, Nativ Dudai, and Uriel Bachrach -- 14. Poppy : utilization and genetic resources / Jeno Bernath and Eva Nemeth -- ch. 15. Ginger / K. Nirmal Babu. [et al.] -- ch. 16. Turmeric / K. Nirmal Babu. [et al.] -- ch. 17. Ginseng / Kwang-Tae Choi and Gyuhwa Chung -- ch. 18. Tea / A.K.A. Mandal, S. Babu, and R.S. Senthil Kumar -- ch. 19. Coffee (Coffea spp.) / Juan Carlos Herrera. [et al.] -- ch. 20. Yacon (Asteraceae; Smallanthus sonchifolius) / A. Lebeda. [et al.] -- ch. 21. Mint / Arthur O. Tucker and Sherry Kitto -- ch. 22. Plantago ovata : cultivation, genomics, chemistry, and therapeutic applications / Manoj K. Dhar. [et al.] -- ch. 23. Christmas candle senna : an ornamental and a pharmaceutical plant / J. Bradley Morris -- ch. 24. Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) / S.K. Malhotra -- ch. 25. Aloe vera / Jose Imery-Buiza -- ch. 26. Stevia rebaudiana : a natural substitute for sugar / Vikas Jaitak. [et al.] -- ch. 27. Ipecac : Carapichea ipecacuanha / Carlos Roberto Carvalho and Luiz Orlando de Oliveira -- ch. 28. Myrtus communis : phytotherapy in the Mediterranean / Munir Ozturk. [et al.] -- ch. 29. Licorice (Glycyrrhiza species) / Marjan Nassiri-Asl and Hossein Hosseinzadeh -- ch. 30. Applications of biotechnology and molecular markers in botanical drug standardization and quality assurance / Kalpana Joshi, Preeti Chavan-Guatam, and Bhushan Patwardhan.