Pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical, food additive and agricultural perspectives of Cymbopogon martini: A potential industrial aromatic  crop.

Magnifying the productivity of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) ultimately relies on the ability to scale from Farm to Laboratory and Laboratory to Industry. Cymbopogon martini (Roxb.) W.Watson (Poaceae), popularly known as palmarosa, Indian geranium, ginger-grass, and rosha-grass is rich in volatile secondary metabolites having an industrial perspective. In this review article, we provide a comprehensive assessment of the industrial application of C. martini and its potential in the pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical, food industries, and its agriculture perspective in terms of its potential in phytoremediation and land restoration. We have attempted to put all the material accessible in the literature about C. martini and its volatile metabolites for various industrial applications. Electronic databases such as Science Direct, PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Ethnobotany, Academic Journals, and library searches were used to assemble the available data. According to the published literature, the essential oil of C. martini is rich in cyclic and acyclic monoterpenoids which has a wide range of pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical, food additive, and agricultural applications due to anti-microbial, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, wound healing, cardioprotective, neuroprotective, anthelmintic, insecticidal, larvicidal, acaricidal, nematicidal and herbicidal activities. The cultivation of C. martini has shown additional benefits in terms of restoration of productivity and functions of wasteland through the phytoremediation process. This review article provides first-time updated information about C. martini as a potential bio-resource for utilization of wastelands with special reference to its industrial potential. [Display omitted] • Cymbopogon martini is a promising essential oil-bearing crop. • Industrial perspectives of C. martini from Farm to Lab and Lab to Industry discussed. • Cultivation of C. martini is also helpful to restore the productivity and functions of wasteland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]