Exploring the Role of High-Temperature Stress on Medicinal Plants: a Review

Abstract

The earth is becoming warmer day by day, consistent with the study earth's temperature has ascended to 0.74 °C and is close to increasing from 1.8° C to 4° C by 2100. Worldwide heating is anticipating endure a typically terrible impact on plant ontogenesis. Plants' diversity and productivity are adversely suffering from abiotic ecological factors. Thermal stress is now becoming the main concern for plants everywhere. The growing risk of climatological extremes, such as very excessive temperatures, might result in a catastrophic lack of crop productiveness and bring about extensive famine. Within the boom situation of plant life, several secondary metabolites are produced with the aid of them to serve a ramification of cell capabilities vital for physiological approaches. In developing nations, aromatic and medicinal vegetation is still utilizing in conventional and alternative drug treatments. In India, medicinal vegetation is being used in conventional medication to treat diverse illnesses. Within the past years, numerous research highlighted the healing properties and biological activities of medicinal plants such as Artemisia annua, A. sativum, Andrographis paniculata, Cymbopogon flexuosus, Foeniculum vulgar, Ferula asafoetida Mentha piperita, Solanum nigrum, Piper nigrum, Tagetes minuta, Trigonella foenum, Ocimum sanctum. Excessive levels of heat in medicinal vegetation exploitation are caused by abiotic stress outcomes with the production of ROS inside the cell chambers of a plant cell, which ultimately have a tremendous effect on secondary metabolite production. The excessive temperature has a wide variety of consequences on plant life in phrases of physiology, biochemistry, and gene regulatory pathways. Right here, we provide an assessment of the impact of temperature on numerous medicinal flora.

Keywords

• weather change
• global warming
• heat stress
• medicinal herb
• ros
• rns
• secondary metabolites