Biosphere : Forms and Functions : A Festschrift to Professor B.N. Verma

Contents Brief resume of Dr BN Verma Foreword Preface 1 Plant activity in anaerobic environment under water submergence in environment under water submergence in wetlandsAshwani K Srivastava 2 Reclamation and management of saline and Alkali soilsSB Agrawal and Anoop Singh 3 Degradation of Reserved Forest Victoria Park Near Bhavnagar City due to overexploitation Gujarat IndiaRenu A Oza 4 Plant diversity in India an overviewRN Trivedi 5 Ethnomedicinal importance of some common pteridophytic plants found in Aravalli ranges of RajasthanPradeep Parihar and A Bohra 6 Taxonomical and ethnomycological observations of edible mushrooms of Arunachal PradeshRishikesh Mishra and Anil Kumar Sinha 7 Biotechnological renaissance in horticultural cropsAlka Srivastava and SS Raghuvanshi 8 Tissue culture techniques for developing weevil resistance in sweet potatoHarsh Kumar and SC Choudhary 9 Improvement of protein quality and quantity in French BeanPR Prasad 10 Effect of temperature on plants with special reference to wheatKanak Sinha Bikash Patnaik and Santosh Kumar 11 Structure and behaviour of Chromosomes in Radish Raphanus Sativus LNarsinha Dayal 12 Seed mycoflora of umbelliferous spicesS Jariwala Kanak Manjari and Bharat Rai 13 Infliction of seedling diseases and biochemical disorders due to storage fungi of the crop seedsBK Prasad Anand Kishor Sheo Prasad Singh and Major Kumar 14 Antimicrobial potentials of some importance spices plants of IndiaLeena Parihar and A Bohara 15 A criticism of Sareen and Wadhwa?s 1981 paper entitled embryological studies in Papilionaceae the genus alysicarpus neck-a critical reviewSA Salgare 16 Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeial plant resources of capparidaceaeAnand Prakash Md Nizamuddin Ansari Chandan Kr Singh and Md Naseem Index The book entitled Biosphere Forms and Functions the second volume of Professor BN Verma Festschrift series contains 16 articles concerned with heterotrophic fungi Pteridophytes and higher plants The ethnomedicinal values of some common vascular cryptogams the pteridophyte in the Aravalli ranges of Rajasthan have been discussed Some horticultural crops and their biotechnological renaissance plant activity in anaerobic environment under water reclamation and management of alkali soils and plant diversity in India have been looked into Developing weevil resistance in an economic plant like sweet potato through tissue culture technique and improvement of protein quality as well as quantity in French bean are important achievements of biotechnology this has been discussed in details Antimicrobial activity of spices cultivated in India Ayurvedic Pharmacopaeial plant resources of Capparidaceae and the role of temperature on plants with special reference to wheat has been enumerated The seedling diseases due to storage fungi of the crop seeds the associated metabolic disorders study of mycoflora in plants belonging to the family umbelliferae and taxonomical as well as ethno mycological observations on edible mushrooms of Arunachal Pradesh have been well described The structure and behavior of eukaryotic chromosomes in radish and overexploitation of the forest are some of the contributions which have been given due place in this the compendium along with experts criticism over review of embryological studies in the genus Alysicarpus The book would be useful as textbook to advanced undergraduate students and to postgraduate students and as a reference book to the scientists working on basic as well as the applied aspects of plants 194 pp.…