Many medicinal plants are very much like weeds, which are self-growing, do not need to compete with food crops for farmland, and have strong adaptability to the NT/RT environment [115]. Therefore, in some areas of rolling topography, especially in mountainous and hilly rural areas in the ...
4.8.2. Medicinal Quality and Nutritional Value The specialized metabolites are usually defensive weapons of plants (Figure 3), which play essential roles in host defense against various biotic and abiotic stresses. Many special- ized metabolites display bioactivities and clinical efficacy, and NT-based...