Ethnobotanical Wisdom and Microbial Studies on Medicinal Plants

Contents: Preface. 1. Effect of refinery effluent on seed germination seedling growth at nursery stage of vigna radiata/Sharmila Upadhyaya, Seema Bhadauria and Ekta Bhadauria. 2. Phenol degradation by a bacterium pseudomonas putida in the presence of chromium/D.S. Malik and Amrita Malik. 3. Rearing and feeding of larvae of bombyx mori linn. In laboratory conditions/Smita Shrivastava, Hemant Saxena and Anita Shrivastava. 4. Effect of catharanthus roseus (L.) (Apocyneaceae) extract on developmental stages of erias favia stall/Sunil Kumar Dubey, R.C. Saxena, P.K. Mishra, Ashutosh Gautam and M.L. Khare. 5. Solid state Fermentation of wheat for the production of cellulase/R.K. Tenguria, Krishna Jha and Pariti Satalkar. 6. Phytotoxic Effects of eucalyptus globules leaf extract on seed germination and seedling growth of vicia/R.B. Singh and U.C. Das. 7. Pharmacological and ethnomedicinal studies of tridax procumbens Linn. Family (Compositeae) for anti-asthmatic activities/Sapan Patel, R.K. Tenguria and P.K. Mishra. 8. Antibacterial activity of mimusops elengi(Bakul)/Prabhat, Navneet and Sri Krishna. 9. Bioremediation using artificial constructed wetland in combination with efficient microbial cultures/N. Sharma, P.S. Minhas, P.K. Joshi and Navneet. 10. Biomonitoring and interspecies comparison of metal precipitation through bryophytes at petrol pumps on Kumaon Hill/Dinesh K. Saxena and Md. Saiful-Arfeen. 11. Isolation and identification of food spoiling bacteria/Bharti Chauhan. 12. Effect of heavy metal stress (Pb, Ni and Cd) on protein and Fat content of the Moss Thuidium cymbifolium/D.K. Saxena and Harinder Kaur. 13. Antibacterial potential of Karanja pongamia pinnata (Vent.)/P.K. Sagar, Navneet and R.K. Paliwal. 14. Crotalaria sericea: A Miraculous ethnomedicinal plant for snake bite in north western tarai forest of U.P. – A New Report/Babli Singh and T.P. Mall. 15. Effect of leaf leachates of potato plants on germination of phytophthora infestans sporangia and zoospores/Navneet and Deepika. 16. Dyeing of wool and cotton fibres with fruit rind of juglans regia as natural dyes, and standardization of ancient dyeing procedure/J.S. Jangwan, Maneesha Sobhal and S.C. Sati. 17. Antibacterial activity of nirgundi (Vitex negundo Linn.)/Sanjay, Navneet and M.M. Tiwari. 18. Isolation and structure determination of new anthraquinone from the flowers of tagetes erecta/J.S. Jangwan, M. Dobhal and S.C. Sati. 19. Investigation of ethnomedicinal properties of mutella occidentals used by tribal peoples of Bhandara District Vidarbha Region, Maharashtra, India/D.D. Ramteke, S.B. Zade and C.J. Khune. 20. Antibacterial activity of abutilon indicum Linn./Amit Kumar, Navneet, Sanjay and Prabhat. 21. Impact of treated and untreated distillery effluent on momordica charantia L. var. Jaunpuri super special/Raj Kumar Rampal and Preeti Dogra. 22. In vitro antibacterial activity of sahdevi (Vernoniccca cineria Less)/Prabhat, Navneet, Pramod and Chhaya. 23. Rajnigandha: A New Host of Fusarium sp. From Bahraich – A new report/Nishat Asif, D.P. Singh and T.P. Mall. 24. Synergistic effect of pongania pinnata bark and tamarindus indica fruit extract against aflatoxin producing fungi i.e. Aspergillus flavus/Harish Chandra, O.P. Sidhu, Jatin Srivastava, Nishant Rai, Sachin Chauhan, Ajay Singh and A.R. Nautiyal. 25. Moss Bag Technique for monitoring of metal precipitation/Dinesh K. Saxena, Kajal Srivastava and Shivom Singh. 26. A Study in vitro antibacterial potential of Riccia sp. (Bryophyte) Plant extract/P. Kaushi and Vishal Upadhyay. 27. A Comparison of phyllosphere mycoflora of healthy and diseased leaves of potato/Navneet. 28. Citric Acid production from alkali treated wheat straw by solid state fermentation/R.K. Tenguria, Krishna Jha and Priti Satalkar. 29. Decolourisation of textile-Dye-Containing effluents using biofilm: A Case study/Maihafizah Mohd. Zahari, Zaharah Ibrahim, Fauziah Othman, Madihah Md. Salleh, Nooraini Abdul Rashid, Adibah Yahya, Aishah Husin and ChanGiek Far. 30. Effect of herbicide (Basalin EC) on Pollen germination and tube growth of twelve hours stored pollen of five cultivars of apocynaceae: A Critical review/S.A. Salgare. 31. Monitoring of Herbicide (MH) Toxicity by using pollen as indicators-pollen of five cultivars of Petunlia axillaris BSP: A Critical review/S.A. Salgare. 32. Whether optimum pollen germination and tube length attained in the same growth medium (Sucrose + Basalin EC) by five cultivars of petunia axillaries BSP.: - A Critical Review/S.A. Salgare. 33. Folicolous fungi of medicinal plants in North Western Tarai Region of Uttar Pradesh/D.P. Singh and T.P. Mall. 34. Studies on the natural infection of mosaic disease of Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) in Tarai region of Eastern U.P./Alka Gautam, R.K. Shukla, Nafees Ahmed Ansari, G.P. Srivastava and J.P. Tewari. 35. Deviation in nitrogen metabolism of ridge gourd (Luffa acutangula Roxb.) infected with three strains of watermelon mosaic virus/Deepika Shukla, R.K. Shukla, Nafees Ahmad Ansari, G.P. Srivastava and J.P. Tewari. 36. Microbial degradation of urea from urea bearing wastewaters/P.P. Pathe, T. Nandy, S.N. Kaul, C.V. Deshpande and L. Szpyrkowicz. 37. Environmental significance of helminth arasites and their removal in wastewater treatment processes/Shanta Satyanarayana, P.R. Chaudhari and S.N. Kaul. 38. Antibacterial potential of cascabela thevatica Leaf extract against escherichia coli: A study in vitro/Vishal Upadhyay and P. Kaushik. 39. Response of an algal community to chromium/P.K. Goel and R.G. Shete. 40. Recent progress in aflatoxin
Analysis and their inactivcation/Harish Chandra, Parul Bishnoi, Jatin Srivastava, A.R. Nautiyal and S.V.S. Chauhan. 41. Fungal ecology of BLSB infected maize fields/Nishat Asif and T.P. Mall. 42. The Anatomic responses of Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Due to the tomato leaf curl virus (TLCV)/Sarika Srivastava, G.P. Srivastava and J.P. Tewari. 43. Three Lignicolous macrofungi from District Doda of Jammu Province (J&K), India/Sanjeev Kumar and Y.P. Sharma. 44. Population dynamics of mycoflora in BLSB susceptible maize varieties/Nishat Asif and T.P. Mall. 45. Diversity in phyllosphere mycoflora infected with black mildew/T.P. Mall and D.P. Singh. 46. In vitro: Antibacterial activity of Salsola kali Linn./Kumresh, Sanjeev, Navneet and Prabhat. 47. In vitro antimicrobial activity of psidium guajava (L.) against some isolated oral pathogens/Ashok Kumar Singh, Gauri, Lalit Matela, Harish Chandra and R.P. Bhatt. 48. Some additional records of follicolous fungi from North central Tarai Forests of U.P/D.P. Singh and T.P. Mall. 49. Bacteriological characteristics of raw water of the river Tawi near sitlee water treatment plant, Jammu/Meenakshi Khajuria and S.P.S. Dutta. 50. Ncytanthes arbor-tristis Linn. (Harsinghar): A Potential medicine/Prabhat, Navneet, Sanjeev and Pramod. 51. Antimicrobial activity of vitex negundo leaf extracts/Deepika, Padma Singh and Vishal Upadhyay. 52. Antifungal activity of lantana camara L. and Syzygium aromaticum L. Against Candida albicans/Aditi Grover, B.S. Bhandari, Nishant Raiand Harish Chandra. 53. Bioevaluation of antibacterial potential of sarpgandha (Rauwolfia serpentina)/Vishal Upadhyay, Deepika, Padma Singh and P. Kaushik. 54. Stress induced alterations in the outer membrane of escherichia coli K-12 strain/Bindu Arora. 55. Bioevaluation of cascabela thevatica plant extract/Vishal Upadhyay, P. Kaushik and Deepika Upadhyay. 56. Establishing relationship between Ayurvedic system of medicine and ethnobotany/Anil Kumar Dhiman and D.R. Khanna. Index.

The present book greatly emphasize on importance of medicinal plants which are all around us. Various scriptures and mantras in our Vedas are having description about their medicinal values. This book covers the quality research on numerous medicinal plants and factors for their deteriorating and how we can save them is given. This book could provide necessary information to the people involved in cultivation and conservation of medicinal plants.