Medicinal Plants: Importance and Benefits

Sriniwas Puri was born in Raibareli, UP (India).  He studied agriculture science at the College of Agriculture.  Thiruvananthapuram (Bangalore) and obtained his Ph. D. at the Doon (PG) College of Agriculture Science and Technology, Dehradun.He is an Emeritus Professor at the College of Agricultural Engineering, (Ludhiana).  Where he taught for 16 years in the Departments of Botany and Agriculture Science as well as the Conservation Biology Programme, the Institute for Soil Science and Ecological Sustainability, the Centre for Environmental Learning and Leadership and the McArthur Programme in Global Change.  At various times, he was a visiting scholars I various part of the country, as well as several foreign universities and research institutions in the United States.His research interests varied from isolation and characterization of agriculture science, the effects of air pollution on plant, and land use planning and environmental policy.  He is also associated with a Non-Governmental Organization, which works for pollution free environment.  He is deeply interested in Soil Chemistry and Soil Analysis.  He has published various scientific journals.  He has also published a number of books on Soil Science, Agriculture Science, Plant Pathology and a widely-used text on Agriculture and Crop-Disease.