Advances in Medicinal Plants, Vol. I (With CD)/edited
by N.D.
Prajapati, Tarun Prajapati and Sushma Jajpura. Jodhpur, Asian Medicinal
Plants and Health Care Trust, 2005, x, 222 p., tables, $28 (pbk) (Vol. I). ISBN
81-89070-07-X.
Advances in Medicinal Plants, Vol. I (With CD)/edited
by N.D.
Prajapati, Tarun Prajapati and Sushma Jajpura. Jodhpur, Asian Medicinal
Plants and Health Care Trust, 2005, x, 222 p., tables, $28 (pbk) (Vol. I). ISBN
81-89070-07-X.
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Application of plant tissue culture in production of secondary plant metabolites since 1990/Rasheeduz Zafar and Shoaib Ahmad. 2. Commercialization of medicinal plants - Indian perspectives/R.B.S. Rawat and R.C. Uniyal. 3. Neem and its pharmacological and biological properties/G.V. Gopal. 4. Ethno botanical aspects of some medicinal plants of Kanchipuram and Thiruvannamalai District in Northern Tamilnadu/R. Sivakumar, A. Sivaprakash, M. Indira Devi, C. Latha and S. Mohana. 5. Bioactive plants: a potential substitute for synthetic medicines/A.C. Shukla, Anuradha Shukla, R.C. Mishra and Anupam Dikshit. 6. Ethnomycology of edible Mushrooms of Orissa/M.P. Sinha and G.V. Gopal. 7. Ethnobotany of ethnic group Thottianaickan of Tiruchirappalli District, Tamilnadu, India/G. Venkatesan, S. Ganesan, L. Kesavan and N. Banumathy. 8. Bio-diversity of medicinal plants along the bank of River Ganges/R.C. Mishra, Alka Mishra, B.K. Mishra and Anupam Dikshit. 9. Advances in phytopharmacology of medicinal plants/Vimal Kumar. 10. Evaluation of botanicals - perspectives of quality safety and efficacy/Pulok K. Mukherjee and Kakali Mukherjee. 11. Ethno botany a potential herbal treasure/M.A. Nurani. 12. Ethno medicinal treasure of tribal Gujarat/K.K. Chaudhuri, Pramod Kumar, N.K. Bohra and Sarita Mutha. 13. Pharmacognostical and preliminary phyto chemical studies on leaves of Rhinacanthus nasutus (Linn) Kurz/A. Rajasekaran, S. Sundarananthavalli, V. Sivakumar and S. Murugesan. 14. Medicinal plant wealth in high altitudes including cold deserts of western Himalayas: Their taxonomy and distribution/K.S. Kapoor, S.P. Subramani and Vaneet Jishtu. 15. Biodiversity conservation through planting fast-growing trees/D.C. Bhatt and K.D. Mitaliya. 16. Medicinal plants and their secondary metabolities effective against ringworm fungi/K.P. Pandey, R.C. Mishra and Anupam Dikshit. 17. Some common ethno-medicinal plants of asteraceae family found in Sonitpur District, Assam, India, and their studies and utilisation/Maya Devi. 18. Multipurpose trees of the Indian desert/R.K. Gehlot. 19. Traditional and modern uses of pteridophytes in India/Silpi Das. 20. Plants used in ethnomedicine for treating diarrhoea in Assam, India/Nabin Saikia. 21. Parasitic efficacy of Ephedrus nacheri Quilis (Hymenoptera: aphidiidae) to control Hayhurstia artiplices (Homoptera: aphididae) on Chenopodium album, a medicinal plant in Western Himalaya/Sumit Chakrabarti. 22. Habitational diversity of Bhalua Forest, Gaya, Bihar/Anil Kumar and D.K. Yadav. 23. Cinnamomum parthenoxylon Meissn. Complex/Akhil Baruah. 24. Cultivated medicinal plants in Rajasthan/Padma Halkiya, N.D. Prajapati, Tarun Prajapati and Sushma Jajpura. Author Index.