Biodiversity in Horticultural Crops: Vol. 6
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Convention on Biological Diversity vis-à-vis Biological Diversity Act of India/N. Sivaraj, S.R. Pandravada and V. Kamala. 2. Assessment on Endemism and Biodiversity among 34 Hotspots of the World/Aaparna Banerjee and Rajib Bandopadhyay. 3. Underutilized Fruits of Hot Arid Region/R.S. Singh, A.K. Singh, Sanjay Singh and Vikas Yadav. 4. Acid Lime/Mahantesh Kamatyanatti and Murlimanohar Baghel. 5. Banana in Tripura/Sukhen Chandra Das and K.S. Thingreingam Irenaeus. 6. Pear/Amit Kumar, Tawseef Rehman Baba, Manohar Lal and Nirmal Sharma. 7. Cluster Bean/Vikas Kumar, R.B. Ram and Chhatarpal Singh. 8. Kale/Chander Parkash, S.S. Dey and Vijay Bhardwaj. 9. Onion/M.A. Vaddoria and Ganesh Kulkarni. 10. Ridge Gourd/D.K. Singh and M. Sarkar. 11. Large Cardamom/S. Sreekrishna Bhat. 12. Cocoa/S. Prasannakumari Amma, V.K. Mallika, E.K. Lalitha Bai and J.S. Minimol. 13. African Oil Palm/P. Murugesan and G.M. Aswathy. 14. Biodiversity and Genomics of Oil Palm/B.K. Babu and R.K. Mathur. Index.
Biodiversity is a key factor in maintaining balance of nature and it also provides a large number of goods and services which sustain human lives. Rich biodiversity is wealth of any nation.
The present volume “Biodiversity of Horticultural Crops (Vol. VI)” has 14 chapters authored by 36 scientists of various institutes which covers various aspects of biodiversity.
It carries two preambles one on Biological Diversity Act-2002 and National Biodiversity Authority-2003 and second on Delhi Declaration on Agrobiodiversity Management. The chapter 1 and 2 carry information on biological diversity and assessment of endemism and biovarsity among 34 hotspots of the world. Chapter 3 to 14 deal with biodiversity in underutilized fruits of arid region, acid lime, banana in Tripura, pear, cluster bean, kale, onion, ridge gourd, large cardamom, cocoa, African oil palm and Genomics of oil palm. (jacket)
