Environment and Adaptive Biology of Plants : Prof. David N. Sen Commemoration Volume/edited by D.D. Chawan. 1995, xxxv, 322 p., tables, figs., $43.
Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Ecology and environment management: 1. Vegetation diversity in peninsular India and its status of conservation/V.M. Meher-Homji. 2. Reaction of the genotypes of Sporobolus diander Beauv. to ionic environments/G.N. Choudhri and D. Tiwari. 3. Ecology of Parthenium hysterophorus Linn/H.N. Pandey. 4. Phytochemistry in relation to ecology of Rajasthan Pteridophytes/B.D. Sharma, D. Rathore and R. Harsh. 5. Eutrophication: its causes, consequences and control/D.P. Kushari and Q. Taheruzzaman. 6. Ecosystem rehabilitation and their monitoring in the Indian arid and semi arid zones : retrospects and prospects/Suresh Kumar. 7. Ethanobotanical evaluation of Narmada Sagar Project area/K.S. Rajpurohit. II. Adaptive biology: 8. Different CO2 concentrating mechanisms in photosynthetic organisms and their adaptive significance/M.A. Choudhuri. 9. Secondary plant products in culture and their production under stress/K.G. Ramawat, Anupama Gaur and K.C. Sonie. 10. Effects of nickel on growth and dry matter yield of blackgram cultivars/A.S. Lakshmanachary and P. Vijayarengan. 11. Oleiferous brassicas-analysis and nutritive value/S.K. Garg and A.K. Thukral. 12. Adaptation of Cymbopogon species of Indian Thar desert under sub-tropical environment at Jammu/A.K. Shahi. III. Biology of saline plants: 13. Environment adaptive biology : the mangroves/L.J. Bhosale and N.G. Mulik. 14. Stomatal behaviour and water loss in halophytes of Indian arid-zone/Sher Mohammed. 15. Biology of introduced species of saltbush (Atriplex spp.) in Indian desert/Pramila Rajput. IV. Weed biology, weed management and allelopathy: 16. Observations on the weed flora with special reference to crop fields of Madhya Pradesh/M. Oommachan, N.R. Paradkar and Arvinder Kaur Sandhu. 17. Crop-weed interference and system management/S. Sundaramoorthy. 18. Cultural and chemical control of Cyperus rotundus L/R.K. Bhatia and K.S. Sandhu. 19. Vegetation analyses of weeds in Indian arid agro-ecosystem/Pawan Kumar Kasera. 20. Seed dormancy and germination behaviour of some weed species/Vinod K. Khandelwal. 21. Allelopathy in certain plants of low lying lands/S.C. Datta and Suparna Mukhopadhyay. 22. Role of allelopathy in crop-weed interactions : priority and prospects/S.M. Pandya. V. Desertification and agroforestry: 23. Role of agroforestry in controlling desertification/R. Debroy and P. Rai. 24. Agro-forestry : general aspects/Manoj Mehta. VI. Environmental pollution: 25. Impact of power plant emissions on the metabolic activities of Calotropis procera willd/Farooq A. Lone, S. Saheed and A.K.M. Ghouse. 26. APTI value of five different species of higher plants from the metropolis of Calcutta/S.C. Datta and S. Sinha-Ray. 27. A comparative study on the cuticular traits of Mangifera indica L. and Psidium guajava L. in relation to coal smokes pollution/Farooq A. Lone, S. Saheed, Azra Parveen and A.K.M. Ghouse. 28. Procedure for standardization of a plant species for heavy metal toxicity studies/Ambika Puri and S.B. Chaphekar. No. 9851