Through the application of modern techniques of biotechnology to agriculture, breeders can make precise genetic changes that impart beneficial properties to the crop plants, trees, fish and animals which provide us with food and fibre. Agricultural biotechnology helps farmers increase yields, enabling them to produce more food per acre and reduces the need for chemicals, pesticides, water and tilling, thereby providing benefits to the environment as well as to ...
Since ancient civilizations, herbs have been used for curing diseases. A Number of scientists have conducted lengthy and complicated researches reveal various facets of Plants with medicinal values. In a collection of four volumes, Encyclopaedia of Medicinal Plants, brings together explicit information about different plants with medicinal values. Being a storehouse of information, every volume goes on to describe the various desirable and undesirable effects of ...