Table of Contents

Mentha: An Overview of its Classification and Relationships, Anatomy, Physiology, Biosynthesis, Molecular Biology, Tissue Culture and Biotechnology of Mint Essential Oil Production, Commercial Mint Species Grown in the United States, The Cultivation of Mints in India, Production of Mint in China, The Distillation of Mint Oils, The Composition of Commercially Important Mints, Oil Composition of the Other Mentha Species and Hybrids, World Production and Quality Control of Mint Oils and Their Commercially Important Isolates, Natural and Synthetic Menthol, The Genuineness of Mint Oils, Biological and Toxicological Properties of Mint Oils and Their Major Isolates: Safety Assessment, Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oils and Constituents of Mentha Species, Mentha: Economic Uses

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Brian M. Lawrence

Reviews

"This chapter does provide an excellent overview of the characters and states used taxonomically in the genus and includes extensive lists of synonymy and holotype repositories for the taxa accepted. … interesting account of the biochemistry and physiology of essential oil production and micropropagation techniques. The summary of micropropagation methods would be useful to those interested in commercial production. … you will find an impressive, well-referenced, page-by-page listing of the various substances that have been found in these plants. … there is plenty of information with numerous references provided."— Don Les, University of Connecticut, Stoors in Plant Science Bulletin 54(1) 2008"The volume, presenting an in-depth look at the genus, providing information on its history, production, chemical constituents, market trends, and medicinal and nutritional uses, is an invaluable resource for all those actively engaged in the research, cultivation, marketing, or product development of mint." – Cinzia Silori, In Advances in Horticultural Science, 2008, No. 3