Medicinal Herbs and Spices: Scientific Ecofarming and Technology

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Medicinal herbs and spices find their use in all systems of medicine. However, the major part of the raw material requirements of pharmaceutical industries is still met out of herbs collected from wild resources. This leads to biodiversity and environmental degradation. To meet such challenges, an equilibrated approach for domestication and cultivation of otherwise, wild medicinal plants and spices is imperative. Very scanty information on such aspects are available in literature which describes the therapeutic potential of about 20000 plants while only very few (about 100) plants are known to be cultivated. Therefore, there is urgent need of concerted efforts to bring more and more plants under farming system. Present book is pioneer in this regard and describes various aspects of potential agrotechnology of medicinal plants and spices. These aspects embody reliable and latest information on applied biology, botany and genetic resources of annuals, biennials and trees. Applied and basic aspects of ecophysiology, biochemistry and biotechnology have been adequately incorporated including pharmaceuticals and nutrceuticals, agronomical, breeding and plant protection parameters, propagation and nutrients managements. The subject matter has been judiciously processed and illustrated by reliable data represented in the form of tables, graphs, line diagrams and 72 coloured photographs. The book is certainly useful for scholars, researchers, teachers and scientists of variable interests such as botany, forestry, plant physiology, biotechnology, agriculture, plant breeding, agronomy and horticultures. Organisations and farmers concerning the herbal farming and trade will certainly find the book extremely beneficial in different agroclimatic zones of India and the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dhirendra Singh

Dr. Dhirendra Singh is Senior Assistant Professor in Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding at Rajasthan Agricultural University’s SKN College of Agriculture, Jobner.  He is an active worker on seed spices and has made valuable contributions in varietal improvement of seed spices.  He has published more than 40 research papers and review articles in journals of repute.  He has guided several students for their PG thesis research.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Karan Singh

Dr. Karan Singh is senior Professor of applied Pant Biology at A.R.S., Durgapura, Jaipur, a constituent campus of Rajasthan Agricultural University. He has contributed more than 100 research papers, review articles and is the author/editor of several scientific books in English and Hindi. He is member, fellow and office bearer of several academic/research societies. He has guided several scholars for Ph.D. degrees of various universities.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mohan Lal Jakhar

Dr. Mohan Lal Jakhar is Senior Assistant Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding in Rajasthan Agricultural University, SKN College of Agriculture, Jobner.  He has published more than 30 research papers and review articles in journals of repute and reference books.  He has made remarkable contributions in establishing a herbal garden at Jobner and running a central sector scheme on medicinal and aromatic plants.  He is life members of more than 10 research/academic societies.  Besides this, he is also handling a research project on cultivation and processing of Aloe vera at Jobner.

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Title
Medicinal Herbs and Spices: Scientific Ecofarming and Technology
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8179102381
Length
xxii+406p., Tables; Plates; Figures.
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