Essential Oil Research

Part 1 - Essential oils composition and why plants produce them

1. Essential oils

Muhammad Asif Hanif*, Shafaq Nisar, Ghufrana Samin Khan, Zahid Mushtaq and Muhammad Zubair

2. Factors influencing the production and chemical composition of essential oil in aromatic plants from Brazil

Carmen Sílvia Fernandes Boaro*, Maria Aparecida Ribeiro Vieira, Felipe Girotto Campos, Gisela Ferreira, Iván De La Cruz Chacón, Márcia Ortiz Mayo Marques

3. Hedychium Essential Oils: Composition and Uses

Hamidou F. Sakhanokho and Kanniah Rajasekaran

4. The Essential Oils of the Burseraceae

Anjanette DeCarlo, Noura S. Dosoky, Prabodh Satyal, Aaron Sorensen and William N. Setzer*

Part 2 - Uses of essential oils in various industries

5. Essential oil of betel leaf (Piper betle L.): A novel addition to the world food sector

Proshanta Guha[1]* and Sujosh Nandi

6. Artemisia annua and A. afra essential oils and their therapeutic potential.

Matthew R. Desrosiers, Melissa J. Towler, Pamela J. Weathers*

7. Outstanding efficacy of essential oils against oral pathogens

Jelena Marinkovic, Tatjana Markovic, Biljana Milicic, Marina Sokovic*, Ana Ciric, Dejan Markovic

8. Chemical diversity and insecticidal and anti-tick activities of essential oils of plants from Northeast Brazil Arie Fitzgerald Blank, Maria de Fátima Arrigoni-Blank, Leandro Bacci, Livio Martins Costa Junior, Daniela Aparecida de Castro Nizio

Part 3 - Extraction and Bioanalytical Techniques

9. Adulteration Analysis in Essential Oils

Prabodh Satyal and William N. Setzer

10. Essential Oils from Pines: Chemistry and Applications

Gaurav Kumar Silori, Naveen Kushwaha, Vimal Kumar*

Part 4 -Strategies and Technologies for Essential Oil Production

11. Biotechnological approaches to increase essential oil yield and quality in aromatic

Dr. Malik holds a doctoral degree in Plant Biotechnology from CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, India. Her main area of research is plant secondary metabolites and genetic manipulation. After post-doctoral studies in Brazil, Czech Republic, and United Kingdom, Dr. Malik joined the Biological and Health Sciences Center at Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA, Brazil). She is a member of the graduate research program at UFMA and is actively involved in research, teaching and supervising students at graduate and undergraduate levels. At present, she is working as a visiting researcher at University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, Australia. She has published more than 30 research/review articles and book chapters. She is also an editorial board member and reviewer of many International Scientific Journals. Dr. Malik has published two other books with Springer: Biotechnology and Production of Anti-Cancer Compounds (2017) and Production of Plant Derived Natural Compounds Through Hairy Root Culture (2018).