Author: Jean-Michel Merillon

Prof Merillon agreed to Dr. Kishan Ramawat”s (series editor) request to prepare a few books under the series “Sustainable development and Biodiversity”. They have discussed these books one by one and this is first book under the series. Dr. Ramawat and Prof Merillon have been collaborating for the past 30 years on various aspects of medicinal plants and produced several books, including one “Plant defence: Biological control” with our group in 2011.  He is senior professor at the Bordeaux University. Dr Céline Rivière is an assistant professor in pharmacognosy at the University of Lille. She belongs to Charles Viollette Institute. She worked in the team of Prof. Mérillon from 2009 to 2011 and she has specialized for afew years in the research of antimicrobials of plant origin.