A Comprehensive Review on Emerging Importance and Economical Potential of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) in Current Scenario

作者：Umair Riaz, Shazia Iqbal, Muhammad Irfan Sohail, Tayyaba Samreen, Muhammad Ashraf, Fatima Akmal, Ayesha Siddiqui, Ijaz Ahmad, Muhammad Hamza Naveed, Naveed Iqbal Khan, Rao Masood Akhter · 发表于：Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Research · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.17582/journal.pjar/2021/34.2.381.392 · 被引用次数：43 · 研究领域：Natural Antidiabetic Agents Studies、Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity、Diverse Scientific Research Studies

A romatic plants contain odorous volatile substances that exist in one or more sections as an essential oil, exudate gum, balsam, and oleoresin, including root, wood, bark, stem, foliage, flower, and fruit.Several complex chemical compounds are responsible for the distinctive fragrance.The term Abstract | The medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) are current hot topic in the industries for their products.MAPs used in various items like pharmaceutical industry, health care items, cosmetics, organic food items etc. MAPs are gaining global admire and most of the pharmaceutical companies filing patents on medicinal plants and their derivatives and about 40% newly approved drugs during last two decades are formulated from natural origin.Multitude of socio-economic factors influence economic values of medicinal plants both locally and at international level.The world trade in botanicals is US $ 32.702 billion and Asian botanical trade is for US $ 14.505 billion with 6.634 million tones and accounts for 44.35 per cent and 53.13 per cent of world trade in terms of value and volume, respectively.Following the leading role of China with 1.48% share in MAPs exports, India is second largest exporter of MAPS with 8.75% share in Asian trade of MAPs.Various biomass and leftover produced with these plants production, as the MAPs cultivation withstands a huge economic potential, but it has several limitations to adaptation as arable crops i.e. lower prices, non-availability of transit markets,...