V P Singh
27 books
The book carries detailed information on: The fundamentals of abattoir establishments, slaughter procedures for quality meat production, scientific evaluation of food animals and carcasses are thus discussed in most effective manners. The sustainability of meat industry and meat food sector is basically dependant on abattoir by-products utilization. So different types of by-products generated in abattoir i.e. blood, hide and skin, intestines, bones, glandular ...
The book presents an account of the flora of M.P. with special reference to Western parts included six districts only. The dominant vegetation of this area is dry deciduous forest dominated by Teak-Acacia-Butea. The another major formations of these areas are grassland, which prevails under anthropogenic factors. Total 980 species have been collected and described under recent taxonomical nomenclature. This book is very informative and useful for students, ...
The present ethnobotanical work was carried out by doing periodical and extensive ethnobotanical survey, assessment of field and tribal knowledge bank of tribal inhabited localities of Ratlam district of Western Madhya Pradesh from 2004-2007. A total number of 210 plant species of ethnobotanical importance belonging to 178 genera and 71 families have been including in the present study used by the indigenous people inhabiting all the villages of the district. ...
Biotechnological potential of microorganism and the implications of their metabolism as well as their products in all spheres of human civilization such as agriculture, industry and medicine, have been of tremendous importance in recent times. This book "Concepts in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology" is the first of its kind which embodies....chapters giving a comprehensive account of microbial taxonomy, ecology, genetics and molecular biology ...
The enumeration of the species and various vegetation types are also included. Grassland vegetation, vegatation of hillocks, drying ponds, pools, puddles, lakes and riverside are separately enumerated. As the flora changes with season; the seasonal aspect of the vegetation is also dealt with. Biotic interferences more particularly anthropogenic, produce newer areas for the occupation by species. Roadsides, trackside, fallow land, rubbish heaps, crop lands, ...
The inception of this book goes back to sometimes in 1991, when we visited to Pachmarhi with students to study the flora of these regions. Although, that we are looking the flora of this regions from 1965 and realizing the decline of the flora of this regions gradually. In 1965, Pachmarhi was completely undisturbed and all the spots were full of flora and fauna and climatic conditions at various sites were different from present state of conditions. Every path of ...
In India, ecological studies of mangroves started with the work of Blater (1905). He described the mangroves of Bombay Presidency Biswas (1927 and 1934) Nawalkar (1940, 48 59 and 73) and Muller (1935) have done extensive work on Indian halophytes of Bombay Sidhu (1960, 1961 & 1963) has studied the mangrove of east Godavari Joshi and his students have studied the mangroves of Ratnagiri Untawale and his students have studied the ecology of mangroves of Mandovi and ...
This book is to acquaint the researchers through the collection of commonly used research methods for analysis of plants, water and soil samples. Specific methodology is given in the following portion in relation to a progressive analytical procedures: (I) Methodology for plant analysis; (II) Methodology for water analysis; (III) Methodology for soil analysis; (IV) Methodology for ecological studies and vegetational analysis. The described methods have proved to ...
The book presents an account of mangrove forest ecosystem, its structure and function. Mangroves are littoral plant formation found in tropical and sub-tropical countries and occurs on the margins of oceans and estuaries. In this book all the aspects of mangrove forest have been discussed. The biodiversity, floristic composition and taxonomy have been enumerated very nicely. The loss of mangrove forest and its conservation and management aspects have been given ...
The book presents an account of tropical forest of the world and its structure and function. In tropical forest, three major forest groups have been described--tropical rain forest, tropical dry deciduous and tropical littoral forest. All the aspects: assessment, biodiversity, floristic composition, physical factors, policies and protection have been nicely discussed. This is good book for students, teachers and foresters for basic information and knowledge on ...
The book is outcome of the work, which as been done during last 3 decades on toxic metals in soil-plant systems. Toxic metal problems are universal and the situation in developing countries is worse and un-imaginable. In this book author has taken some important toxic metals of the environment, which are more concerned with our life. Their occurrence, contaminations, effects on health hazards and environmental issues are very well described. The book gives a very ...
Many heavy metals are essential for plants and animals when present in growing medium in low concentrations; they become toxic only when a concentration limit is exceeded. The toxic metal phytotoxicity has been known for more than a century. However, the interest in this field has been developed only recently. The capacity of the plants to survive on soils that contain high concentrations of certain toxic metals has fascinated ecologists, and plant physiologists ...
This book presents an account of important aspects of Living (Extant) and Non-living (Fossil or Extinct) gymnosperms. The special attention has been given on family wise comprehensive information of the group based on the representative genus available today. In this book all the recent aspects of naked seed plants have enumerated and nicely discussed, to make this book highly useful to undergraduate and graduate readers.
The chili (Capsicum spp.), pepper, is an important condiment of high commercial value and also medicinal values containing antioxidant properties, anti-cancerous, and many other properties. It occupies an important place in the human culture since pre-history in many countries. capsicum is well known in the pre-historic Mexican culture such as Aztecs and Olmecas Capsicum belongs to the family Solanaceae possessing 10 species. Originating in the new world, the ...