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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 ...
Horticultural crops are gaining importance throughout the world not only as food or economic crops but also for their importance as raw material for value-added products and industrial uses. A comprehensive, updated information on horticultural crops, with emphasis on production technology was a long standing demand which has been met by the voluminous works in Tropical Horticulture 1 and 2. Tropical Horticulture 1 dealing with fruits, plantation crops and spices ...
This comprehensively revised publication (in two volumes), first published in 1989 (in one volume) and reprinted subsequently, ‘Commercial Flowers’ was considered as a valuable book on floriculture world-wide. There has been a marked improvement in production and quality of flowers during the last decade and enormous useful research results have been reported from all parts of the world, particularly on control of environment and crop management in ...
The Sundarbans Mangrove Ecosystem or the Sundarbans Mangal represents an ecosystem which enjoys the priviledge of being the largest single mangrove chunk in the world, the only mangrove swamp in the world, inhabited by man-eating Royal Bengal Tigers, the largest representation of mangroves in term so species, providing varied habitats for large number of mangrove-dwelling fauna and the grazing grounds for innumerable fish, prawn and crab species. In addition, the ...
During the last decade major changes have occurred in our perception of seeds, thus the potentials of utilization of seeds have increased hundreds of fold. The present book, Current Concepts in Seed Biology, encompasses all the major fields of pure and applied studies on seeds, including structure, morphology, embryology, pathology, physiology, evolution and economic importance. The book will be highly useful to scientists and research scholars working in the ...
This is the first comprehensive text and reference book on plant nematology. It is intended for the graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, teachers and administrators in phytonematology and allied disciplines. Up-to-date information has been incorporated in the volume both from the advanced and developing countries, from frontlines to those downstream researches that make the body of scientific principles and practices, and from the earliest pioneers to ...
Biodeterioraton is a vast and multidisciplinary problem and during the last two decades enormous amount of research work has been done on various aspects of the science. This book (in two volumes) is an attempt to present a complete account on the subject of biodeterioration and biodegradation. Different chapters have been contributed by internationally renowned authorities in the field. Current and future trends in the field have been thoroughly examined in ...
A book of this kind for the first time, discusses the agro meteriology of groundnuts, loss reduction biotechnologies and new developments in the processing and utilization of byproducts of groundnuts. This invaluable reference book furnishes both theoretical perspective and practical methods of producing high quality groundnuts. The volume covers: Groundnut morphology, flowering, fruiting and development, The physiology, biochemistry, cytogenetics and breeding, ...
Major scientific informations related to factors affecting nutrition, interaction between macro- and micro-nutrients, role of nutrients in resistance to diseases and pests, fertilizer recommendations for differnt regions and different crops have been presented in details. It is hoped that the book will serve as an important source of world literature on nutrition of vegetable crops.
Tribal societies, throughout the world, have their respective systems of medicines. Their concepts and attitudes towards the diseases, and the pharmacopeia are different. They also impose prohibition on some specific diets during illness and convalescence. The present book is the result of years of field work on the tribal societies of Lodha (branded by British rulers as criminal tribe), Munda, Oraon and Santal of India supported by commensurate theoretical ...
Floriculture covers all the aspects related to the production and use of flowers and ornamental plants, flower seeds, bulbs, etc. Apart from the utilities of ornamental plants in outdoor gardening and interior decoration as house plants, cut-flowers and potted plants constitute an important segment of the international trade. Planting materials and dried products are also important items in the international market. The scenario of floriculture is changing very ...
Horticultural crops including fruits, vegetables, plantation crops, spices, medicinal and aromatic plants, flowers and ornamental plants apart from being a group of major food crops and economic crops throughout the world, constitute raw materials for value added products and industrial uses. A large number of horticultural crops grown in tropical countries are of major commercial importance and have global demand. Apart from domestic market, export trade of ...
Orchids are the integral parts of India's wonderful natural heritage. Because of the richness of the orchid flora, Indian subcontinent has long been a source of great attraction to horticulturists, botanists, collectors and connoisseurs. The taxonomical studies conducted long back by few eminent botanists are the only records available on native Indian orchids in the literature. In spite of the importance of orchids in modern floriculture, very little efforts ...
This book is so to say an encyclopaedia of medicinal plants in India. The present works by the scientists of repute cover as to document latest names, chromosome numbers, English, Sanskrit and vernacular names, of all states, trade names, traditional uses including ethnic, Ayurvedic, Homoeopathy, Siddha, Unnani and modern uses. It also covers phytography, chemistry, adulterants, etc. This profusely illustrated book will be immensely useful to researchers, ...
Technology for Vegetable Production and Improvement has been designed to serve as a textbook for graduate and early postgraduate level students of agriculture and horticulture of Indian agricultural universities. There is a detailed and single-source coverage of the principles on which production technologies and breeding methods of vegetable crops are based. Providing different comparative data, this book discusses the present status of vegetable cultivation in ...
This comprehensive, well-prepared, well-illustrated and up-to-date book will serve as an excellent text covering all aspects of pomology (fruit growing) at one place. The book is ideal for the teachers, researchers and students of horticulture and pomology.
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 Mass Media scenario of India after liberalization, is changing at a very fast pace. Erosion of the morals also has added many new dimensions to the media arena. This change has aroused global interests. Constraints on mass media of which laws, regulations and court cases are inseparable part are also changing. Traditional issues like sedition, obscenity have lost their positions yielding places to defamation, contempt of courts, parliamentary privileges, etc. ...
The authors, for the first time, have endeavoured to cover varied information - botanical, ecological, chemical and medicinal - about each plant species in a single work. The data about each species has been schematically presenter documenting, inter alia, Botanical names; Their families, common synonayms and chromosome numbers as available; English, Sanskrit & vernacular names being user in all the States of the Republic of India; Trade names, if any; ...