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Scientists have always looked and searched for novel products from plants and their utilization for human health and environment. The flowering plants have primarily been the focus of research whereas the non-flowering plants have remained unexplored and unexploited. Future researchers in biology, chemistry and medicine should tap these plants that have tremendous potential as therapeutic agents. In the present day life of stress and emergence of new diseases, ...
Legumes, the group of pulses and related plants, are a very important component of global bioresources, more particularly in the tropics and the subtropics. Apart from the various industrial and other uses, such as sources of tannins, dyes, forage and fodder, green manure, timber, fibres, beverages, oil etc., the legumes play a very significant role in human nutrition and medicine. There are about 179 genera and 1,152 species of legumes recorded from India. The ...