V A Parthasarathy
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The name “Onion” originated from the Latin name unio, meaning oneness or unity, or a kind of single onion. A native of Central Asia, onion is now grown in more than 140 countries under temperate tropical conditions. In India onions have been adapted from very early times, before Christian era. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are the main onion-growing states in the country. Barring north-eastern states and kerala, ...
Herbals spices are those spices whose vegetative parts are used to flavour the food. There are a large number of such book on herbal spices authored by V.A. Parthasarathy, Utpala Parthasarathy and K.N. Shiva consists of chapters on various important herbal spices such as Celery, Chervil and Coriander, Curry leaf, Dill, Fenugreek, Hyssop, Lovage, Mint, Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, Sage, Savory, Sweet Marjoram and Sweet Basil. Each crop is covered under different ...
Piperaceae is an economically important plant family. Members of this family grow in tropical forests from South Asia to Tropical America, including those of Africa and Australia. Several Piper spp. from India, southeast Asia and Africa are of economic importance since they are used as spices and traditional medicines. Many plant families have a global distribution, but a few have the rich ethnobotanical and ethno pharmaceutical history of Piperaceae. The pepper ...
Zingiberaceae or ginger family is the largest family of the order Zingiberales containing about 53 genera and more than 1, 300 species consisting of aromatic perennial herbs. Commercial Zingiberaceous spices traded are ginger, turmeric, cardamom and large cardamom. Ornamental ginger is a diverse group of plants that are gaining importance in the floriculture trade as cut flowers, flowering pot plants and landscape plants. Herbs of the Zingiberaceae family have ...
With the increase in our knowledge and competency in molecular biology especially in isolation and cloning of important and useful genes of agronomic interest and development of useful transgenics, it is expected that biotechnology will play a major role in increasing the production and productivity of crop species and help in crossing the yield barriers. The transgene studies carried out world over in many laboratories for the past three decades have led to ...
Production of quality planting materials is fast becoming an important input in disease management programmes especially in production of disease/virus free plants. In addition, efficient plant regeneration systems are important for in vitro manipulations and transgenic pathways for crop improvement. In the present volume, the available information on the micropropagation and plant regeneration technologies developed for fruit crops, plantation crops and spices ...
Production of quality planting materials is fast becoming an important input in disease management programmes especially in production of disease/virus free plants. In addition, efficient plant regeneration systems are fast becoming important for in vitro manipulations and transgenic pathways for crop improvement. In the present volume, the available information on the micropropagation and plant regeneration technologies developed for vegetables, ornamentals and ...
Understanding biology and genetics at molecular level has become very important for better understanding and manipulation of genome architecture. Molecular markers have contributed significantly in this respect and have been widely used in plant science in a number of ways. This includes genetic fingerprinting, identification of duplicates, selection of core collections, determination of genetic distances, genome analysis, identification of markers associated ...
Understanding biology and genetics at molecular level has become very important for better understanding and manipulation of genome architecture. Molecular markers have contributed significantly in this respect and have been widely used in plant science in a number of ways. This includes genetic fingerprinting, identification of duplicates, selection of core collections, determination of genetic distances, genome analysis, identification of markers associated ...
Production of quality planting materials is fast becoming an important input in disease management programmes especially in production of disease/virus free plants. In addition, efficient plant regeneration systems are important for in vitro manipulations and transgenic pathways for crop improvement. In the present volume, the available information on the micropropagation and plant regeneration technologies developed for fruit crops, plantation crops and spices ...
The first edition of the book entitled ‘Vegetable Crops in India’ published in 1986 was revised in 1993 with the title ‘Vegetable Crops’. Both the previous editions were considered as outstanding publication on the subject and proved valuable to the students, teachers, researchers and extension specialists in horticulture in general and olericulture in particular, in different parts of the world. During the period after the book was revised in 1993, ...
The first edition of the book entitled ‘Vegetable Crops in India’ published in 1986 was revised in 1993 with the title ‘Vegetable Crops’. Both the previous editions were considered as outstanding publication on the subject and proved valuable to the students, teachers, researchers and extension specialists in horticulture in general and olericulture in particular, in different parts of the world. During the period after the book was revised in 1993, ...
Horticulture is becoming an increasingly important enterprise in many agro-based economies with increasing demand for fruits, vegetables, ornamental plants, beverages and spices besides medicinal and aromatic plants. The science of biotechnology has become more commercial with most of the techniques being patented. The use of biotechnology in solving many of the problems confronting the horticulture-based industries needs no emphasis. The development of the basal ...
The third edition of this book has been the result of a thorough revision with updated information that was first published in 1986, reprinted in 1991 and further revised and published in 1997. Meanwhile, lot of information has been generated in the field of propagation of horticultural crops in general and micropropagation, in particular. The existing conventional propagation practices have been neither improved or new methods have been evolved and a revolution ...
Plantation crops are of high commercial value and used by the people all over the world, but mainly grown in the tropical regions. The important plantation crops are coconut and oil palm (oil yielding crops); tea, coffee and cocoa (beverge crops); arecanut and betelvine (small holder’s crop); cashew (nut crop); rubber (industrial crop); bamboo (timer crop); Palmyra (under exploited plantation crop). Many of the plantation crops and their products are the major ...
The global changes warranted fastness in food production system and fast foods. In tune with demand, crop production also oriented accordingly. However, the proverb 'Health is a Wealth' has reminded us to keep vigil on system and method of food production and food safety. The ill-effect of conventional chemical based farming is well documented and public realized the importance of organically produced food and efforts are being made to popularize the ...
Creative ideas and expression of the human mind that have commercial value and are entitled to the legal protection of a property right. The major legal mechanisms for protecting Intellectual Property (IP) are copyrights, patents, and trademarks. IP rights enable owners to selectively give access to their intellectual property and to protect it from unauthorized use. The TRIPS Agreement establishes minimum levels of protection that each government has to provide ...
India is the land of spices. The flavour and fragrance of Indian species had a magic spell in human civilization and culture since very ancient days. The lure for spices attracted the Greeks, Turks, Arabs, Romans, Chinese and Europeans to India, ultimately leading to colonial rule. The species trading history is thus entwined with world history itself. Annals of history reveal the importance of Indian spices growing at a magnificent pace across the nations. ...
The present volume contains the details of tree species. As in case of volume 1, which dealt with major spices, this volume contains 9 tree spices. Even though, there are about 17 tree spcies listed, some of them such as mango, pomegranate etc are treated more as fruits. The tree spices like clove, nutmeg, tamarind and cinnamon are relatively more important and they are grown in an area of 81189 ha with a production of 208445 tonnes. India also imports tree ...