Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Agricultural Research When Considering Criteria of Multifunctionality and Sustainability

<p>Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) as open-field crops play an important role in multifunctional and sustainable agriculture as a result of their low energy requirements for cultivation and their many avenues of use from the production of nutraceuticals phytonutrients and phytotherapy to land valorization. This Special Issue of <em>Agriculture</em> Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Agricultural Research when Considering Multifunctionality and Sustainability Criteria aims to illustrate the role of MAPs in agriculture in low-impact farming practices and the benefits they can generate in terms of functional products. This Special Issue covers all research aspects related to MAPs including a number of scientific macro-areas such as agronomy chemistry and pharmacy ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology food and nutrition and ecology. Key topics in this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:</p><ul><li>Sustainable agricultural practices of MAPs; Breeding and germplasm preservation of MAPs; The biodiversity of MAPs; The conservation of cultivated and wild MAPs; Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology; Phytotherapy phytochemistry and phytopharmacology; Essential oils and secondary metabolites; Functional foods and MAPs; MAPs and degraded and marginal land recovery; The global marketing of MAPs; The legislation of MAPs.</li></ul><p><br></p>