Plant Diversity in India : Present Status and Conservation Strategies
Contents: I. Plant diversity and its conservation: 1. Biodiversity : its different aspects and conservational strategies/T.R. Sahu and P. Sahu. 2. Plant diversity in India: rich heritage, present status and conservation/S.S. Bir. 3. Sacred groves in biodiversity management/R.K. Srivastava, O.P. Kulhari and R.K. Raghuvanshi. 4. Degradation of forest biodiversity and its conservation strategy in Punjab state/R.S. Dhanda. 5. Agro-biodiversity in the Indian Himalayas-status, genetic erosion and conservation strategies/B.D. Sharma and J.C. Rana. 6. A review of phytodiversity changes in principal crops of Punjab/N. Jerath, Puja, Arshdeep Kaur and C. Prakash. 7. Plant diversity in the ethnoagriculture of the tribes of Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh/M.K. Lakshmi and K. Lakshminarayana. 8. State biodiversity strategy and action plan for Punjab: an introduction/ N. Jerath, Arshdeep Kaur, Puja and C. Prakash. 9. Plant biodiversity and its conservation through in vitro technique/A Narula, Sapna, T. Srivastava, S. Kumar, S. Das and P.S. Srivastava. 10. Relevance of data on reproductive biology for conservation of endangered plants/A.K. Koul, S. Verma and R. Magotra. 11. Impact of heavy metals, copper and lead on reproductive potentials of plants/M.I.S. Saggo, N. Verma and P. Sharma. 12. Intervarietal and provenance variation pod and seed characters and seed viability in acacia nilotica (linn.) willd. ex del./V.K. Singhal and Amandeep Kaur. 13. Rare or threatened plants of Kullu district/D.S. Dhaliwal. 14. Studies on the development of a database and computer-aided identification system for the flora of Punjab plains-I. Family Fabaceae/A.S. Soodan. 15. Phytodiversity conservation in Wetlands of Punjab: emerging issues and strategies/S.S. Ladhar. 16. Biodiversity and ecological adaptations in desert plants/D.N. Sen, S. Mohammed and P.K. Kasera. 17. Plant species composition, productivity and nitrogen retention in successional grassland systems/Neeraj, S.R. Gupta and V. Malik. 18. Strategies for conservation of Reboulia hemispherica (purple margined hepatic) in Northwestern Himalaya/A. Langer and Mohd. Tanwir. 19. Rare and endangered pteridophytes of the Pachmarhi hills (Central India) and their conservation strategies/S.M. Vasudeva. 20. Pteridophyte diversity of Kumaon (Central Himalaya)/N. Punetha, A.K. Pant and B.S. Kholia. 21. Decreasing pteridophytic vegetation in Rajasthan--an alarming situation/B.D. Sharma. II. Genetic and microbial diversity: 1. Conservation of Indian forest genetic resources-issues and priorities/B.S. Gill. 2. Evolutionary status of weeds: monocots-a review/M.K. Sidhu. 3. Genetic diversity in Sivalik populations of Scaligeria stewartiana (Nasir) Nasir (Apiaceae)/I.A. Hamal and Kulvinder Kaur. 4. Assessment of cytomorphological variability in clitoria ternatea linn/S. Kumari, M.I.S. Saggoo and and Jaswinder Kaur. 5. Morphovariants in some woody taxa from the Palni hills/G.S. Chatha. 6. Induced double and triple trisomics in brachycome iberidifolia benth/M.S. Sidhu. 7. Diversity in heterocyst pattern formation in mutants of the cyanobacterium anabaena sp. PCC 7120/D.N. Tiwari, S. Raju and A.K. Mishra. 8. Criteria for determining resistance of the cyanobacterium anacystis nidulans and its mutants towards nickel/J.I.S. Khattar, T.A. Sarma and Anuradha Sharma. 9. Genus mougeotia from Punjab and its adjoining areas/R.S. Rattan and T.A. Sarma. 10. Ecology and distribution of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi/K.G. Mukerji and Bhoopander Giri. 11. Mushroom flora of Patiala -- the genus coprinus pers. ex gray/ N.S. Atri and Amanjeet Kaur. 12. Species diversity in genus xylaria hill ex schrank in Western Himalayas/J.S. Dargan. 13. Wood-rot rungi from Haryana/M.P. Sharma and S. Gupta. 14. Corticoid fungi of the Eastern Himalayas-six new species/G.S. Dhingra.
"Plant Diversity in India : Present Status, and Conservation Strategies proceedings of the two-day national symposium is being published as volume consist of research papers covering the diversity of various groups of plant including species diversity, genetic diversity and microbial diversity. The author have dealt with the various aspects of the plant wealth in India and have also shown considerable concern on the vanishing and threatened species. Many papers have been included to highlight the need for conservation of specific germplasm of various species of plants which are on the threshold of extinction.
This volume is as a commemoration volume in honour of three distinguished plant scientists who superannuated during the recent year." (jacket)
