This volume is aimed at offering an insight into the present knowledge of the vast domain of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants with a focus on North America. In this era of global climate change the volume is meant to provide an important contribution to a better understanding of the diverse world of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant research, production and utilization.

Chapter 1. Introduction to MAPs in the North America

Chapter 2. Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical databases, a cornerstone in the validation of ethnoveterinary medicinal plants, as demonstrated by data on pets in British Columbia
Chapter 3. Pharmacopoeial Wild Medicinal Plants of North America
Chapter 4. Medicinal Plant Products, a Discussion of Actual or Probable versus Perceived Sources
Chapter 5. Juniper species in North America to the same species in Europe with respect to phytochemistry and bioactivity
Chapter 6. Mentha Genetic Diversity at the US National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Corvallis, Oregon
Chapter 7. Advances in the research of basil
Chapter 8. Advances in ther research of catnip
Chapter 9. Diversity, conservation and sustainable harvest of medicinal plants in North America
Chapter 10. The Great botanist, Jim Duke
Chapter 11. TBC
Chapter 12.  Taxol or the story of the American yew
Chapter 13. The Indian Tobacco
Chapter 14. The American Elderberry
Chapter 15. The American Ginseng.