The scale of mineral exploration is now of unprecedented proportions owing to increasing demands placed upon earth's resources by the urgent needs of expanding industries and burgeoning populations. The exploration techniques were revolutionized with the advances taken place both in geophysical and geochemical methods of prospecting. Recognition of ore deposits based on plant affinities to minerals was realized and this added new dimension to plant utilities to ...
It is often assumed and truly so that a viable and practical option to achieve near completion of the flora of India is by giving a serious stress to revisions of certain major genera under different families. They are pretty small in number, between 50 and 80, and Strobilanthes of the Acanthaceae is one such genus under and represented by ca 150 species in the mountainous region of Peninsular India and the Himalayas of northeast and northwest India. ...