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Systematic Botany is one of the important subject of Biological Sciences in India. No such book is available on the subject which exclusively covers all the families included in the syllabi of different universities. This book is intended for use by students who are likely to take up Batany as a Profession and also the B.Sc. students of Agricultural University where Botany has been introduced as an elective subject. The authors have done a valuable jobs in ...
Potential losses of major world crops to pests, diseases and weeds have been estimated at approximately 70%. However, the actual losses are approximately 30% due to efficient crop protection practices. The increase in human population density and the subsequent demand for meat are predicted to cause crop production to double in the next four or five decades. To achieve this objective, an improvement or at least maintenance of crop protection efficacy against ...
Forests play important role in combating desertification, preventing erosion problems, other protective functions, climatic change acting as carbon reservoirs and sinks. Forests, the biodiversity they contain and the ecological function they maintain, are a heritage of mankind. The vital role of forests in protecting fragile ecosystems, watersheds and freshwater reservoirs and as storehouses of rich biodiversity should be recognized. Forests contain not only ...
Eco-Environment plays an important role in combating desertification, preventing erosion problems, other protective erosion problems, climatic change and acting as carbon reservoirs and sinks. The vital role of Eco-Environment in protecting fragile ecosystems, watersheds reservoirs and as storehouses of rich biodiversity should be recognized and contain not only woody species and wild animals but also a wealth of other species of actual or potentially ...
In this backdrop, those who deal to protect and improve the natural environment including rivers, lakes, forest and wildlife should deeply concern the environmental challenges and the possible remedies. The unique design of nature has provided scavenger species, which keep the environment free of such wastes. In the countries which have long been the seat of civilisation it is not always a simple matter to reconstruct the "original" vegetation. But this ...
Biologically active compounds from plant sources have had a dramatic impact in medicine, such as quinine for treatment of malaria; reserpine for controlling hypertension; cocaine as a muscle relaxant; and vincristine for treating children with leukaemia. Tropical plants have an enormous, untapped potential to the world flora has been examined for pharmacologically active compounds, but with the ever increasing danger of plants becoming extinct, there is real risk ...
This book examines, for the first time, those threads in Indian thought that present a prolife view of plants. Using texts from Vedic, Hindu, Jain and Buddhist traditions, the author argues that there is strong support in early materials that plants are thought to be alive, to be sentient (and have the one sense of touch), to feel pleasure and pain, to have an interior consciousness, and to be bearers of Karma. Moreover, while plants are traditionally thought to ...
The activities of plants are vital of the welfare of nearly all organisms that share earth, including humans. Renewed interest in environmental issues has brought the importance of plants back into sharp focus at the time that new approaches are catalysing botanical research. This is wonderful time to study plants, a great time to take a botany course. Botany is a new textbook put captures the excitement of the botanical revolution and reflects how the objectives ...