Many small and large books have appeared on biodiversity in India in the last one decade. This book deals with ‘Hotspots’ of one major component of biodiversity, the plant resources in selected and critical areas in India. The work is authored by scientists who are researchers by profession and are well trained taxonomists of Botanical Survey of India, which is the main official agency of the Government for study of plant resources of the country. The book covers various groups of the plant kingdom. At some places useful references are made to diversity in major animal groups also. The information in various chapters often covers economic aspects, ethnobotany, rare, endangered or endemic species, and biotic factors. The data in the book should provide ample material for utilisation and conservation of these bioresources, and also for further critical research, such as taxonomy, phytogeography, endemism, genetics, breeding, tissue culture, forestry, control of fungal or other diseases, etc.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P.K. Hajra
Prabhat Kumar Hajra (b. January 28, 1940) received his early education at Sekenderpur, a village in Hooghly District of West Bengal and graduation from Calcutta University. He obtained Masters Degree in Botany from Guahati University and Ph.D. degree from the same university. From 1961 to 1992 he worked in Central National Herbarium, Calcutta, Eastern Circle, Shillong, and Northern Circle, Dehradun of Botanical Survey of India in different capacities. He established the Sikkim Himalayan Circle of Botanical Survey of India. He joined the Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India as Director Biosphere Reserve and worked during the period 1992-1993. HE then rejoined Botanical Survey of India as Director in 1993 and retired on supre-annuation in 1998. Since 1998 he is involved in a project sponsored jointly by the Department of Space and Biotechnology, Government of India as one of the collaborators. He has authored manmy publications of botanical interest such as Plant wealth of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Botany of Kaziranga and Manas, Brahmakamal and its allies etc. He has also edited a large number of books on the Flora of India. He is the author of over 100 publications in various scientific journals. During his intensive field survey all over India, he discovered numerous plant species that are new to science. He has also extensively toured all over the world in connection to his scientific pursuit. He is the author of several popular books in English as well as Hindi.
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