**7. Future direction and conclusion**

Despite the many appreciations of science and industry, present practice is filled with stress. Mobile devices and the web have vastly enhanced the pace of life so that many people feel that they are now going down in an endless-increasing ocean of data, while technical culture has overwhelmed us with growing vulnerability to unhealthy prepared and packed food and a profusion of pesticides, food container components, and many toxic modern chemicals. Urban citizens are nevertheless dealt with growing prosperity disparity, social segregation, excessive turbulence, air, water and soil pollution and disconnection from nature. Therefore, while industrialization experiences served to stronger lifespans and impressive expansions in human populations, it is now agreed that the extremest causes of death and disease on the globe are preventable lifestyle-related chronic diseases [150].

The biodiversity of essential oils containing the small molecular terpenoids remains an enchanted field of investigation, and the continuous usage of this reward in a broad field of studies suggested these demands in the consequent [151]. Screening, identifying, and dealing with this vast biodiversity will require a progressing progress of precise, rich-throughput experimental methods including new driving procedures.

The beneficial health effects of *Ocimum* oil compounds have also been proven by many randomized, crossover, controlled, human studies on biomarkers of health performed in the last decades. Several preclinical studies suggest that such beneficial effects may be mainly ascribed to the phenolic compounds. Further development of biotechnology with the genomic and metabolomic analyses and genetic engineering will advance a variety of fields involving bioactive compounds ranging from food and animal nutrition to plant protection. Although many biological activities as antimicrobial or antioxidative and other effects have been intensively studied and well documented. However, well studies are needed to further characterize the *in vivo* effects of individual *Ocimum* derivatives applied as specific agents or in a mixture, consisting of their safety analysis on mortals. Moreover, a better evidence of their molecular procedure of activity may appropriate the system to a better application in human pharmacology.

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**Author details**

Parthadeb Ghosh<sup>2</sup>

Debjoy Bhattacharjya1

, Sinchan Adhikari<sup>2</sup>

1 Cytogenetics and Plant Breeding Section, Department of Sericulture,

2 Cytogenetics and Plant Biotechnology Research Unit, Department of Botany,

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and Soumen Saha1,2\*

Raiganj University, Raiganj, West Bengal, India

University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

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provided the original work is properly cited.

, Arijit Biswas2

, Anil Bhuimali1

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In inference, the tendency of the last moments in the treatment of herbal productions have indicated that nature prospects and trust in pure and healthful products including medicines, cosmetics, household products, since easily as foodstuffs of plant and animal origin have belonged to a vital issue. So, indeed a well-balanced risk-benefit assessment of bioactive essential oils is one of the major challenges and policymakers must be convinced that review on natural products as the volatile terpenoids in essential oils is a huge task to ensure the ultimate human and animal welfare [151].
