Sustainable Management and Conservation of Biodiversity

Contents: Preface. 1. Cyanobacteria as biofertilizers in rice fields/Richa Tandon, Rashmi Singh, V.K. Dwivedi and G.L. Tiwari. 2. Genotoxicological studies of Arsenic Trioxide to freshwater fish channa punctatus (Bloch.) using micronucleus assay and alkaline single-cell-gel electrophoresis/Rakhi Chaudhary, K.K. Gaur, B. Kushwaha, N.S. Nagpure and Ravindra Kumar. 3. Fish biodiversity and their present status in Tapti river in Madhya Pradesh/Dinesh Damde, Vivek Parashar and Vipin Vyas. 4. Effect of photoperoidism on gonads of rain quail Coturnix Coromandelica/Atul Kumar Misra. 5. Callus culture and plantlet formation using axillary shoot explant of grass pea (Lathyrus Sativus L.)/Surendra Barpete, Dinesh Parmar and N.C. Sharma. 6. Sustainable management and conservation of biodiversity in the natural forests of Central India: a case of two medicinally important species/Manish Mishra and P.C. Kotwal. 7. Ecological aspects of the periphyton community of the river Ganga and Yamuna at Allahabad, U.P./Prateek Srivastava. 8. Efficacy of some chemical disinfectants on microorganisms/Romsha Singh, Sarika Jain and Preksha Khare. 9. Impact of synthetic pyrethroid (Fenvalerate) on the reproductive potential of the vinegar fly, Drosophila Melanogaster Meigen (Diptera, Drosophilaedae): influence of the age at the time of treatment/S.A. Choudhary. 10. Biodiversity of rhizosphere microorganisms with special reference to phosphatase producers: an approach of nutrition to forest vegetation/Naveen Malaviya, Alok Tiwari, Thakur Nirbhay Singh, Mayank Verma, I.P. Kori and Tulsi Ram Rahangdale. 11. Virulency of different strains of nuclear polyhedrosis virus collected from different geographic regions/N.K. Chand and A.K. Tripathi. 12. Toxicological impact of organophosphate pesticide parathion on carbohydrate metabolism in the ovary of Notopterus Notopterus (Pallas)/Rashmi Vyas and Sudha Singh. 13. Studies on diversity and phyto-geographical distribution of poaceous plants in Kanpur-Dehat district, U.P./J.P. Shukla, B.S. Chandel, Arti Katiyar and B.K. Shukla. 14. Regenerative ability of lens in mice under the influence of vitamin A/Anil Paliwal and Chanchal Rawat. 15. Biodiversity conservation and socio-economic scenario in Santhal Pargana (Jharkhand)/A.K. Poddar. 16. Estimation of repellency properties of plant extracts against Raphidopalpa Foveicollis Lucas/Pankaj Tandon and Anita Sirohi. 17. Diversity of ichthyofauna and fishery from Bansagar Dam M.P./Raj Bhan Sahu and Shivesh Pratap Singh. 18. A review on studies of reptiles: with special reference to India/P. Dube and S.M. Meena. 19. Avian influenza : public health/U.K. Garg. 20. Effect of fusarium diseases on pea (Pisum Sativum L.) cultivations in and around Jabalpur district and its biocontrol : a review/Poornima Sharma. 21. Anthropogenic impact on aquatic macrophytes of river Narmada at Hoshangabad/Ravi Upadhyay and Sharad Trivedi Upadhyay. 22. Efficacy of insecticide Dursban (Chlorpyrifos) against Sminthurus Indraensis; Sminthuridae: apterygota-insecta/Anil Paliwal and Deepmala Verma. 23. Deterioration of mustard, Brassica Juncea (Czern and Coss) seed due to certain seed borne fungi during storage in Kanpur (India)/B.S. Chandel, J.P. Shukla and Anil Kumar. 24. Malathion and magnesium sulphate induced changes in blood glucose level of channa striatus/Anis Siddique, V. Patil, S. Gaherwal and M.M. Prakash. 25. Ethno-medicinal formulation used by traditional herbal practitioner of Chitrakoot dist. Uttar Pradesh/M. Tripathi, N. Dwivedi, R.L.S. Sikarwar, Rashmi Singh and D.N. Mishra. 26. Petroleum hydrocarbon products utilization by some micro-organisms/Nishant Meshram, Komal Jimnani and Ranjana Shrivastava. 27. Light trapping of Sesamia Inferens pest during standing crop of Saccharum Officinarum at Baroli Ahir block of Agra/Gunjan Verma and Shweta Indauriya. 28. Histopathalogical study of fresh water teleost Channa Punctatus (Bloch) showing toxicity of fertilizers during pre-spawning period/Namrata Shrivastava, B.K. Singh and S.B. Shrivastava. 29. Diapause of Thrips Tabaci due to unfavourable termo-photoperiodism/Mahesh Chandra and R.K. Verma. 30. Contamination of biospheredue to bio-medical waste in Agra/Mohini Bansal, Suman Kapoor and N. Ullah.

"The present book entitled "Sustainable Management and Conservation of Biodiversity" comprises 30 articles pertaining to this discipline. This book is basically a proceeding of the "National Conference on Recent Concepts of Biodiversity and Biotechnology" held at Shri Ram Krishna College of Commerce and Science, Satna (M.P.) from 24th--25th January, 2009. The editors are grateful to all the contributors who responded promptly be making their available which has catalytic impact upon us, to complete the task of publishing this book. The articles have been written by well known experts and researchers in their respective field.

This book will be very useful for the students, teachers and researchers in this field and it can also be used as a standard reference book." (jacket)