Phytotechnology: Emerging Trends

Contents: Part 1 : Plant Taxonomy, Medicinal Plants, Biofuels And Natural Dyes: 1. Taxonomy and conservation of Cycads- The living fossils/Anil K. Goel. 2. Morphometric Studies on Rice Cultivars from Gangetic-Plains, India/R.J. Desai, B. Sharan and V.M. Raole. 3. Application of dye extracted from Ashoka (Saraca indica) bark and leaves on cotton fabric and evaluation of anti-microbial properties of Ashoka dye/Inderpal Rai and Sandeepa Kumawat. 4. Priority for Biodiversity Conservation/Vinay M. Raole and Rinku J. Desai. 5. Approach of Medico – Ethnobotany based on disease-oriented study/Susmita Sahoo and Narendra Patil. 6. Antimicrobial and antioxidant potency of leaves of a medicinal plant- Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb/R. Keshwala, Y. Baravalia, Y. Vaghasiya and S. Chanda.  7. In vitro Evaluation of Antioxidant and Antimicrobial potency of fruit rind of Caesalpinia pulcherrima Swartz/Mital, Kaneria, Yogesh, Vaghasiya, Jigna, Parekh and Sumitra, Chanda. 8. Application of dye extracted from Pillu (Salvadora oleoides) fruit on cotton and silk fabrics and evaluation of its color fastness property/Vijaya Luniya and Subuhi Khan. Part 2 : Plant Anatomy, Host Pathogen Interactions, Biofertilizers And Biopesticides: 9. Biofertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture/D. J. Bagyaraj and A. N. Balakrishna. 10. Anamorphic Fungi: An Overview/Praveen Gehlot, D. K. Purohit and S. Kaur. 11. Ultra structural details of teak wood decay caused by Lenzites sterioides (Fr.) Ryv. and Coriolus versicolor L. ex Fr./P.K. Nagadesi, Arun Arya and Susy Albert. 12. Preservation of Anamorphic Fungi/Praveen Gehlot, S. Kaur and Kamna Sharma. 13. Occurrence of fungi on Madhuca seeds and physico-chemical characteristics of seed oil/Shraddha Olpadkar and Arun Arya. 14. Reclamation of fluorspar mining areas of Kadipani by AMF inoculated tree species/Shirali Chokshi and Arun Arya.  15. Occurrence of certain timber degrading fungi from saw mills of Gujarat/Arun Arya and P.K. Nagadesi.16. Petiolar anatomy as an aid to the identification of Mangifera indica varieties/Bhavana Sharma, Susy Albert and H.K. Dhaduk. 17. Comparative study of the effect of bio-fertilizer (AM Fungi) on yield of selected crops/M.H. Gadani, K. Banerjee, S.P. Sisodiya and K.K. Srivastava. 18. Occurrence of Endophytic fungal flora from leaves, stem and bark of Mangifera indica L. from Vadodara, Gujarat/Shipra Chaudhary and Arun Arya. 19. Bio-control agents (BCAs) as a potential tool to uphold sustain-ability of Environment: Types, methods and commercialization/Riddhi M. Patel and Y.T. Jasrai. 20. Edible vaccines – A bright Panorama for Healthcare/Mansi Barochia, Chaini Konwar and Nisarg Soni. Part 3 : Plant Physiology, Tissue Culture, Plant Genomics, Proteomics, Molecular Biology And Plant Biotechnology: 21. Performance of tissue culture date palm (Phoenix dactylefera L.) in Mundra taluka/D.R. Kanzaria, M.V. Ramdevputra, U.N. Tank, M.K. Mankad and N.P. Shukla. 22. The use of RAPD in assessing genetic diversity in Commiphora wightii (Arnott.) Bhandari, an endangered medicinal plant/Sanghamitra Samantaray, K P Hidayath, K A Geetha and Satyabrata Maiti. 23. Variability Induced by Ethyl Methane Sulphonate on Presoaked and Dry Seeds of Hordeum vulgare L. Var. K-409/Archana Srivastava and Alka Srivastava. 24. Effect of different polysaccharides as explant holding substitute on Micropropogation of Banana/N. C. Vora and Y. T. Jasrai. 25. Gamma rays induced variability in Jatropha curcas L. - D. Nayak, N.S. Patil, S.K. Jha and D.B. Jadeja. 26. Genetic divergence of muskmelon (Cucumis melo Linn.)/Reetu Mehta, Diwakar Singh and M.K. Bhalala. 27. Effect of NaCl and GA3 on germination of Coreopsis seeds/Kajal Gandhi and Archana Mankad. 28. Morph-physiological parameters and seed yield of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) as influenced by salicylic acid and brassinolide/C. Mandavia, L. Raval, V. Khasiya and M.K. Mandavia. 29. Large scale production of an important ayurvedic medicinal plant “Taruni” (Aloe barbadensis Mill.)/V. R. Parmar and Y.T. Jasrai. 30. Varietal Response of Ashwagandha with reference to growth regulators/Hitesh A. Solanki and Payal P. Vakharia. 31. Effect of foliar application of Boron on sugar content of Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) plant/Urvi Gupta and Hitesh A. Solanki. 32. Management of oil refinery effluent contaminated soil as influenced with composted rice husk/Alok Bharadwaj. 33. Effect of different sucrose concentrations on in vitro growth of Mustard Seedlings/Hiren Oldera, Bhargav Waghela, G. D. Jessay, Neha Trivedi, Pooja Upadhyaya, Rinni Raval, Vimal Somaiya and Nikita Rajput. 34. In-vitro Clonal Propagation of Fig (Ficus carica L.) through Axillary Bud Culture/V. K. Sharma, D.P. Bhatt and Arun Arya. 35. Organogenesis in petiole explants of Tylophora indica (Brum.f.) Merrill after Encapsulation/Hiral Buch and Aruna G. Joshi. Part 4 : Plant Ecology, Climate Change, Remote Sensing And GIS:: 36 Plant enumeration studies using a non-conventional approach/Usha B. Joshi and G. Sandhya Kiran. 37. Effect of Artemisia annua L. Leaf Mulch on Crop and a Weed /Shivangi Purohit and Neeta Pandya. 38. Application of the aquatic indigenous plant material coagulants for waste water treatment/Pinkal Chaudhari and Punita Parikh. 9. Variations in the addition of fine root biomass of two important tropical trees (Tectona grandis L. and Dendrocalamus strictus Nees.)/J. Dinakaran, Nirav Mehta and Neeta Pandya. 40. Floral diversity of wetland using Geographical Information System/Ashwini N. Mudaliar and G. Sandhya Kiran. Index.

This book highlights the rapidly expanding horizons of Plant Sciences. The conventional aspects of Botany remain the backbone of this subject, but the growing population and environmental compulsions urge man to explore new avenues to tackle the problems of society. Most of these areas, which are interdisciplinary in nature and provide new and better solutions, are pursued vigourously by researchers in Plant Sciences. Medicinal plants including Nutraceuticals, Biofuels, Natural Dyes, Biofertilisers, Biopesticides, Plant propagation methods including Tissue culture, Plant Genomics, Proteomics, Climate change and Remote sensing techniques inclusive of GIS are some of the such emerging areas focused in this book. The present book contains a good number of scientific articles penned by expert researchers in all these fields. Since researches in these areas are pursued in many of the Research centers and Universities, this book will be a valuable and essential reference book for one and all who are interested in these subjects.