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mandate of CSIR Institute, & IIIM Jammu, where sincere ef- forts are made to develop natural products as drug candidates for treatment of cancerous & infectious diseases. Dr. Ana- mika has received the best paper award in the Oxford Inter- national Conference on the Science of Botanicals in 2007. She has guided more than 60 Phd and postgraduate students in immunology techniques for fulfillment of their PG cours- es. As a Principal Investigator, her scientific team has en- hanced the potential of the Pharma & Biotech Industry. Dr. Sushma Koul has more than thirty-eight years‘ experi- ence in development of propagation protocols of high alti- tude medicinal and aromatic plants with their implication for conservation. Production of bioactive metabolites in vitro. Development of bioreactor system for plant cell & or- gan cultures Plant fermentation for production of plant bioac- tive and value additions through biotransformation utilizing plant cell suspension culture system. Adaptive Biology and plant Physiology. She has published 40 papers and has 3 pa- tents. Dr. Anpurna Kaul works as scientist in Pharmacology Di- vision of Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIP), Jammu, India. She has completed her Ph.D in 1996 from University of Jammu. Her field of research is immune phar- macology. Dr. Kaul has 35 research publications in national and international journals, 12 patents and also presented sev- eral research papers in various symposia/conferences. She has screened more than 4000 plant extracts/fractions and pure compounds on immune system by in vivo and in vitro methods. She has also actively participated in Indo- Malaysian research project as member and visited Malaysia in 2007 to attend Women’s Health and Asian Traditional Medicine Conference. 256

Dr. Sarojini Johri is a retired Principal Technical Officer, Department of Microbial Biotechnology, she worked for 33 years at Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR) Jammu. Dr. Johri has published 35 high impact pa- pers and is member of following scientific committees: In- dian Science Congress Association, Panjab University Alumni, Society of Biological chemist of India, Association of microbiologists of India and Biotech Research society of India. Dr. Surjit Singh is superannuated as Principal technical of- ficer, a post equivalent to assist director of govt of India. He is also designated Associate Prof. in AcSIR, an academic wing of CSIR for PhD programs. He published around 100 scientific publications in national and international journals. He is contributor of 13 lndian and European patents and has written 8 book chapters as well as edited five books of scien- tific publications. Dr. Surinder Kitchlu has a MSc PhD in botanical sciences, with research experience of 35 years in laboratory to land re- lated projects. He has 30 publications in impact factor jour- nals. He has keen interest in essential oil bearing plants & is an expert in Ladakh flora. Dr. Rekha Sapru Dhar specialises in the Molecular charac- terization of the germplasm of aromatic and medicinal plants. Molecular cloning and functional validation of genes in- volved in the biosyhthetic pathways of Withania somnifera; Picrorrhiza kurroa and Pelargonium graveolens. She has 36 publications and 1 patent. 257

Dr. Suphla Gupta‘s core research areas includes Plant Mo- lecular Biology, DNA Fingerprinting and Barcoding, Tissue Culture and Plant Proteomics. These are the approaches be- ing utilized in her Lab to understand secondary metabolite biosynthesis of medicinal plants, development of tissue cul- ture protocols for rare and endangered plants and plant bar- coding and fingerprinting for Intellectual property rights pro- tection. Her Lab has also chemically and genetically charac- terized and catalogued more than 250 Ginger germplasm from North western Himalayas and DNA barcoded medicinal plants collected from Cold desert areas of Leh and Ladakh region of India. She has published more than 40 peer re- viewed research papers, delivered eleven invited Lectures and attended over fifty International & National Confer- ences. Dr. Asha Chaubey is presently working as Senior Principal Scientist and Head of Fermentation and Microbial Biotech- nology Division. She has been working in the area of fermen- tation technology for exploration and exploitation of micro- organisms for the production of bioactives and novel en- zymes for more than 18 years. She obtained Ph.D. degree from LLRM Medical college, Meerut in collaboration with National Physical Laboratory in the field of biosensors for diagnostics. During the doctoral research; she has significant- ly contributed towards the development of biosensors for health care and generated good quality publications and patents. Dr. Vidushi Mahajan completed her B. Tech & M. Tech with distinction from Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Noida, U.P, India followed by Ph.D in Plant Biotechnology from Council of Scientific and Industri- al Research (CSIR)-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine 258

(IIIM), Jammu, India Dr. Mahajan has published her research findings in about 23 peer-reviewed International Journals. She has presented her research finds at national as well as in- ternational forums in series of International and National Conferences during her research carrier. Dr. Vidushi Abrol is a Researcher Associate at CSIR-Indian Institutute of Integrative Medicine. She got her Ph.D at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra. Her career planning consists of effective implementation of given task and re- sponsibilities. Her thesis research interest was on chemical mutagenesis and isolation of secondary metabolites fromim- portant fungi. Her current post-doctoral studies focusing on the microbial transformation studies of natural drugs, its im- portance in correlating them with the corresponding metabo- lism (biotransformation) in biological system and in the structural modification of complex drug molecules, which are difficult to obtain synthetically. Dr. Swati K. won Women‘s Leadership award for 2022, for being a breakthrough researcher & an editor. She was select- ed by African Union to be one of the 100 women who makes a difference in Africa. She has provided valuable insights in- to global and regional political and economic influences. She is also a published author of four books and 10 professional scientific papers, an editor, a columnist with fifteen years of experience, specializing in foreign & science policy review & analysis. She is a cancer immunology research strategist with two decades of experience, specializing in organic syn- thesis, analytical elucidation of molecular structures, drug discovery research development using two new novel mole- cules on breast, lung, pancreas, colon, & prostate cancers. 259

INDEX Prologue Food IS Medicine ……………………………….13 Introduction……………………………………………..…21 Chapter 1 Current Perspectives of Fruits as Potent Immuno- modulators…………………………………………………27 Chapter 2 Ex Situ Approaches for Conservation of Himala- yan Medicinal Plant Biodiversity………………………….43 Chapter 3 Phytochemicals as Immunomodulatory agents…75 Chapter 4 Bioactive Potential of Endophytic Microorganisms & Bio prospecting Microorganisms for Drug Discovery and Development……………………………………………...109 Chapter 5 The Super food: Spices………………………..129 Chapter 6 Bioprospecting Marine Plant: Window to the Blue World……………………………………………………..143 Chapter 7 Medicinal plants from Himalayan Region… …161 References………………………………………………...179 Authors…………………………………………………...241