Phytotechnology: Emerging Trends

About the Book: Phytotechnology: Emerging Trends This book highlights the rapidly expanding horizons ofPlantSciences. The conventional aspects of Botany remain thebackbone ofthis subject, but the growing population andenvironmentalcompulsions urge man to explore new avenues to tacklethe problemsof society. Most of these areas, which areinterdisciplinary innature and provide new and better solutions,are pursuedvigourously by researchers in Plant Sciences. Medicinalplantsincluding Nutraceuticals, Biofuels, Natural Dyes,Biofertilisers,Biopesticides, Plant propagation methods includingTissue culture,Plant Genomics, Proteomics, Climate change andRemote sensingtechniques inclusive of GIS are some of the suchemerging areasfocused in this book. The present book contains a good number of scientificarticlespenned by expert researchers in all these fields. Sinceresearchesin these areas are pursued in many of the Researchcentres andUniversities, this book will be a valuable and essentialreferencebook for one and all who are interested in thesesubjects. Contents Part 1: Plant Taxonomy, Medicinal Plants, Bio fuels AndNaturalDyes1. Taxonomy and conservation of Cycads 2.Morphometric Studies on Rice Cultivars fromGangetic-Plains,India 3.Application of dye extracted from Ashoka (Saraca indica)barkand leaves on cotton fabric and evaluation ofanti-microbialproperties of Ashoka dye 4.Priority for Biodiversity Conservation 5.Approach of Medico andndash; Ethanobotany basedondisease-oriented study 6.Antimicrobial and antioxidant potency of leaves of amedicinalplant- Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb. 7.In vitro Evaluation of Antioxidant and Antimicrobial potencyoffruit rind of Caesalpinia pulcherrima Swartz. 8.Application of dye extracted from Pillu (Salvadoraoleoides)fruit on cotton and silk fabrics and evaluation of itscolorfastness property Part 2: Plant Anatomy, Host Pathogen Interactions,Biofertilizers And Bio pesticides 9.Biofertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture 10.Anamorphic Fungi: An O