Diversity of Lower Plants

Contents: Foreword. Preface.1. Biodiversity: status threats and conservation/Mukesh Kumar, Anjali Khare, Rajan Kumar Gupta and A.K. Goyal. 2. Microbial Diversity for Sustainable Crop Production in Hill Region/D.K. Shahi, B.K. Agarwal and K.P. Singh. 3. Cyanobacterial Biodiversity: A Profile/Kaushal Kishore Choudhary, Rajan Kumar Gupta and Mukesh Kumar. 4. Freshwater Cyanobacterial Diversity of Doon Valley/Anjali Khare, Mukesh Kumar and Rajan Kumar Gupta. 5. Physico-Chemical Parameters in Relation to the Distributional Pattern of Cyanobacteria/Anjali Khare, Mukesh Kumar and P.K. Singh. 6. Cyanobacterial Biodiversity and Ecostrategy/Divya Topal and N.K. Sharma. 7. Role of Cyanobacterial Biodiversity Resources in Agricultural Sustainability/Usha Pandey. 8. Algae: General Aspects, Ecological Relationships and Economic Values/Ashu, Mukesh Kumar and Rajan Kumar Gupta. 9. Extremophilic Bacteria and Microbial Biodiversity/Jay Shankar Singh and Rajan Kumar Gupta. 10. Pathogen Biodiversity: Its Origin, Nature, Characterization and Control/Mohit Kumar Gupta, Rahul Kumar, G.K. Sharma and Mukesh Kumar. 11. Biodiversity of Powdery Mildew Fungus: A Constant Threat to Cucurbits/G.K. Sharma, Desh Deepak, Mohit Kumar Gupta and Manujendra Pratap Singh. 12. Diversity of Wood Rotting Basidiomycetes of Kumaon and Garhwal Himalaya/Dhiraj Kumar Sehgal, Kaushal Pratap Singh and Dheeraj Mohan Singhal. 13. Biodiversity of Chilika Lake, East Coast of India/Jnanendra Rath and Siba Prasad Adhikary. 14. Strategies for Sustainable Biodiversity Conservation/Sushma Gupta and Rajan Kumar Gupta. 15. Phytocystatins: The New Age Healers/Garima Sharma, Sandeep Sharma and M.K. Sharma. 16. Aquatic biodiversity: Nature and Characterization/Manisha Kaushal, G.K. Sharma, Desh Deepak and Mukesh Kumar. 17. Threats to Phytodiversity/Sumeet Gairola, K.N. Bhardwaj and C.S. Rana. 18. Himalayan Biodiversity with Reference to Uttarakhand and its conservation strategies/Kiram Dimri and N.K. Sharma. 19. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR): An Effective Tool to Protect Indigenous Technical Knowledge/Poonam Paliwal and M.K. Paliwal. 20. An Updated List of Pteridophytes of Uttarakhand/N. Punetha, B.S. Kholia, Richa Punetha and Kamlesh Bhakuni. 21. Distribution Pattern of Terricolous Lichens in Garhwal Himalayas (Chopta-Tungnath Tract) with Reference to Morphological and Environmental Variables/Himanshu Rai, Rajan Kumar Gupta, D.K. Upreti and Pramod Nag. 22. Bryophytes and Ecosystem/Yateesh Mohan Bahuguna, Sumeet Gairola, D.P. Semwal, P.L. Uniyal and A.B. Bhatt. 23. Biodiversity and Conservation Needs in Uttarakhand Himalaya: A Case Study of District Rudraprayag/G.P. Raturi and A.B. Bhatt. 24. Diatoms: Occurrence, Structure and Application/Rachna Nautiyal. 25. Biodiversity and Biotechnology/Ravi Rajhans, Rajan Kumar Gupta and Mukesh Kumar. 26. Mycorrhiza: A Symbiotic Fungi/Devendra Singh, Rajan Kumar Gupta and Mohd. Irfan. Index.Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome or for the entire earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological system. Biodiversity or biological diversity is the sum of all the different species of animals, plants, fungi, and microbial organisms living on earth and the variety of habitats in which they live. Scientists estimate that upwards of 10 millionand some suggest more than 100 milliondifferent species inhabit the earth. Each species is adapted to its unique niche in the environment, from the peaks of mountains to the depth of deep-sea, hydrothermal vents, and from polar ice caps to tropical rain forests.Biodiversity is also described as some of the fascinating varieties of organisms and complex ecological relationships that give the biosphere its unique, productive characteristics. The biodiversity found in earth consists of many millions of distinct biological species. Biodiversity is not distributed evenly on earth, but is consistently rich in the tropics and in specific localized regions it i.…