Biodiversity in Horticultural Crops, Vol. II

Contents: Acknowledgement. Foreword. List of contributors. Introduction. I. General: 1. Centres of origin and diversity of horticultural crops/N. Muthi Anishetty, S.R. Pandravada, Z. Abraham and K.S. Varaprasad. 2. Convention on biodiversity/Jayashree Krishnankutty and K.V. Peter. 3. Sacred groves for biodiversity conservation/Savita Bisht. II. Biodiversity of vegetables: 4. Amaranth/V.A. Celine. 5. Drumstick/B. Varalakshmi. 6. Radishes (Raphanus spp.)/Amish K. Sureja, E. Sreenivasa Rao and Anilabh D. Munshi. 7. Tropical cauliflower/Pritam Kalia. 8. Jackfruit/Rema Menon, R. Keshavachandran and K.V. Peter. 9. Grape in India/G.S. Karibasappa. 10. Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.)/S. Prasannakumari Amma, V.K. Mallika and E.K. Lalitha Bai. III. Biodiversity of spices: 11. Tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.)/D. Singh, L. Wangchu, V.C. Prahalad, P.S. Chauhan and A. Kavita. 12. Indian gooseberry/D. Pandey. G. Pandey, S.K. Shukla and R.K. Pathak. 13. Orchids of medicinal value/Ajay Kr. Singh and T.S. Mehra. IV. Biodiversity of ornamentals: 14. Plumeria: Temple trees/Jacob Varghese.

"A continuation of Volume 1, Biodiversity in Horticultural Crops, Vol. 2 elaborates centres of origin, distribution, uses, description and about all crops based systematics of amaranths, drumsticks, radishes, tropical cauliflower, jack fruit, grapes, cocoa, tamarind, Indian gooseberry, orchids and temple trees. Three exclusive chapters on centres of origin and diversity of horticultural crops, convention on biodiversity and sacred groves for biodiversity conservation makes Volume 2 unique and distinct knowledge on origin has become focused in Geographical Indications and Intellectual Property Rights (GI and IPR) regimes giving right to communities for the uses of plants and Traditional Knowledge (TK). In the Post Convention of Biodiversity (CBD) are ownership of Genetic Verified existing in places of origin shifted from global right to sovereign right of that country. The CBD was signed by 189 nations at the Earth Summit in Brazil on 5 July, 1992 and Commonto Zones on 29 December, 1993. In 2002, two Conferences of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (COPCBO) adopted the target to achieve a significant reduction on the current rates of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level as a centrifugation to poverty alleviation and to the fit of all life on earth by 2010. The present volume carries 14 chapters contributed by 32 working scientist from 14 States Agricultural Universities and Central Research Institutes."