Aryana Libris

Author : Trivedi Pravin Chandra
Title : Medicinal plants Utilisation and conservation
Year : 2009

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Germplasm introduction, exchange, collection/Evaluation and conservation of medicinal and aromatic plants - Their export potential. B. P. Singh. The Indian subcontinent is one of the mega-centres of crop-plant diversity. A wide spectrum of agro-climatic and regional topography ranging from humid tropical to semi-arid, temperate to alpine makes it to grow all types of crop plants. The country also possesses cultural and ethnic diversity, including 550 tribal communities of 227 ethnic groups, spread over 5,000 forested villages who have further contributed significantly over the millennia to the diversification of agro-biodiversity. The Indian subcontinent is a centre for domestication and diversification of plants. India has about 15,000 species of higher plants occurring in 16 major vegetation types. About 33 per cent of species are endemic. It is a treasure house of wild economic plants, which are largely under-utilised, particularly wild edible and medicinal and aromatic plants (Arora, 1996). ...