RESEARCH IN MEDICINAL and AROMATIC PLANTS

Medicinal and aromatic plants, which have the past as long as the history of humanity, were used for food, spices, and fragrance in the early periods and later developed with the alternative areas of usage such as paints, feed, and fuel. Within the process, the destruction caused by the activities for obtaining raw materials of medicinal and aromatic plants on natural ecosystems attracted attention, and nowadays, the development of new strategies for the sustainable use of medicinal and aromatic plants has become compulsory. The development of medicinal and aromatic plants is based on obtaining the appropriate amount and quality of plants in line with the demands of consumers and industrialists and increasing production and market opportunities, and issues such as their standardization, contribution to the economy, potential to take part in the crop rotation, and product diversity are considered to be important processes of the sustainable agriculture of medicinal plants.