Multipurpose Trees in the Tropics : Management and Improvement Strategies

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Management of Multipurpose Tree Species: 1. Multipurpose tree species in semi-arid subtropics-growth and biomass production/A.S. Gill. 2. Effect of management practices on productivity of teak (tectona grandis) in hill zone of Karnataka/A.G. Koppad and R.V. Rao. 3. Productivity of Acacia auriculioformis - a multipurpose tree species in degraded uplands as influenced by soil and moisture conservation measure/A.G. Koppad and K. Manjappa. 4. Stripping and callusing properties of Kamachile [Pithecellobium dulce (roxb.)]/Arsenio B. Ella. 5. The growth performance of Hopea odorata planted on original and cut soil/M.N. Ahmad Azaruddin, Y. Adzmi and M. Adnan. 6. Boswellia papyrifera (del.) Hochst: a promising multi-purpose tree species in arid zones/Abdalla Mirghani El Tayeb. 7. Germination ecology of five multipurpose trees from the Sudanian savanna in Burkina Faso, West Africa/D. Zida, R. Nygard, L. Sawadogo, D. Tiveau, M. Tigabu, P.C. Oden and Maria Schelin. 8. Sustainable management of arid soils through agro-forestry/D.C. Joshi and Pramila Raina. 9. Growth, biomass production and water use in Dalbergia sissoo seedlings in relation to soil water stress/G. Singh and Bilas Singh. 10. Role of multipurpose tree species in community forestry: lessons from Northern Western Ghats/Archana Godbole and Jayant Sarnaik. 11. Performance of tree species with high density planting under irrigated condition/K. Manjappa, V.B. Nadagouda and A.G. Koppad. 12. Growth performance of multipurpose tree species in the degraded hill areas of Bangladesh/M.K. Hossain and B.M. Khan. 13. The potential fruit yield of economic local tree species in West African Savanna Area, Burkina Faso/N. Lamien and J.S. Ouedraogo. 14. Performance of MPTS under high-density plantation in red lateritic wastelands of Chhattisgarh plain/M.N. Naugraiya, Sunil Puri and A.S. Sisodiya. 15. Influence of site characteristics on growth of Azadirachta excelsa (Jack) Jacobs/Ong Kian Huat and Lim Meng Tsai. 16. Growth of Madhuca longifolia var. latifolia (Roxb) Cheval in plantation/P.K. Shukla. 17. Growth and biomass yield from Salvadora persica with management practices on salt affected soil under hot arid conditions in India/Ranjana Arya and R.R. Lohara. 18. Trends and projection of acidic deposition in India for selection of species in afforestation/Sanjay Kumar, Sarita Srivastava and T. Kojima. 19. Ligneous species diversity on macrotermes termitarias under different fire regimes in a savannah woodland (Burkina  Faso, West Africa)/S. Traore, M. Lepage, R. Nygard, I.J. Boussim, P.C. Oden and S. Guinko. 20. Growth performance of some indigenous fuel wood and fodder tree species at the three altitudes of Garhwal Himalayas/S. Nautiyal, Monka Tyagi, Preeti Joshi and Pankaj Kumar. 21. Growth and productivity of certain multipurpose tree species under rainfed condition in North Gujarat/S.N. Jaimini, N.M. Patel, J.M. Patel, S.B. Patel and P.M. Patel. 22. Effect of trees on improvement in soil biological activity and P uptake of arid crops/J.C. Tarafdar and B.M. Sharma. 23. Growth response of Acacia farnesiana willd. to indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria under tropical nursery conditions/A. Karthikeyan. 24. Influence of moisture conservation techniques and fertilizers on productivity of teak (Tectona grandis) in hill zone of Karnataka/A.G. Koppad and R.V. Rao. 25. Characteristics of vegetation, litter and nutrient levels at different altitudes and seasons in upper Yamuna forests of Garhwal Himalayas/B.M. Dimri and M.N. Jha. 26. Studies on the effect of naphthalene acetic acid, urea and zinc sulphate on fruit drop and quality of ber (Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk)/B. Yadav, G.S. Rana and M.S. Joon. 27. Management of nursery diseases of multipurpose tree species in Central India/Jamaluddin and P.K. Chawdhry. 28. Effect of neem fruit at different maturation levels and depupled seeds on germination and vigour and its economic analysis/P. Masilamani, S. Selvam and K. Annadurai. 29. Acacia nilotica a multipurpose tree in South of Iran/Masoud Tabari and Mohammad Hassan Emtchani. 30. The biodiesel tree - jatropha curcas Linn/Naresh Kaushik, Sushil Kumar and R.A. Kaushik. 31. Conservation of multipurpose trees of Western Rajasthan/N.K. Dwivedi, Neelam Bhatnagar and D.P. Yadav. 32. Managing multipurpose tree species for the nutritional security in arid areas/Pratibha Tewari, Sanju Choudhary and Nidhi Shekhawat. 33. Status and management of insect pests of emblica officinalis and Gmelina arborea - the multipurpose tree species in Satpura plateau of Madhya Pradesh/P.B. Meshram. 34. Estimating use value -- a case study of Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India/Pradeep Chaudhry and V.P. Tewari. 35. Effect of plant species on soil properties under irrigated conditions in hot arid regions of India/Ranjana Arya. 36. Madhuca indica: multipurpose tree in benefits of forests inhabitants of Gujarat State, India/R.L. Meena, Kabool Chand, Rajbir Singh and S.L. Meena. 37. Seed, seedling and growth characteristics of Acacia Jacquemontii Benth: a potential multipurpose species in Indian arid zone/R. Prasad, R.S. Mertia and Sunil Kumar. 38. Neem (Azadirachta indica) in integrated pest management/Ranjeet Singh and Surinder Kumar. 39. Biology and efficacy of tetrastichus spirabilis and eupelmus sp., the potential biocontrol agents of gall forming insects of Prosopis cineraria (L.) Druce/S.I. Ahmed and Shivesh Kumar. 40. Effect of biofertilizers on seed germination and seedling vigour of some multipurpose tree species/Seema Mishra, Satyawati Sharma and Padma Vasudevan. 41. Effects of nitrogen treatment and seasonal variation on growth and biomass production in Pongamia pinnata Pierre seedlings/S.P. Cahukiyal and T.C. Pokhriyal. 42. Pest management potential of Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre/R. Sundararaj, Rajamuthukrishnan and O.K. Remadevi. 43. Biodiversity, qualitative composition and relative abundance of soil fauna in arid ecosystem/G. Tripathi and B.M. Sharma. 44. MPTS management by sustainable utilization and value addition: a futuristic approach/Vineet Kumar, Pradeep Sharma and P.L. Soni. Conservation, Management and Improvement of Medicinal Plants: 1. Sablot (Litsea glutinosa) lour. Rob: a versatile but disappearing multipurpose tree in tropical Ilocos, Philippines/Alfredo R. Rabena. 2. Sustainable development of Aonla (Phyllanthus emblica L.) through non-destructive harvesting practices/A.K. Pandey, Vishakha Kumbhare and P.K. Chowdhry. 3. Planting stock production of Labisia pumila by cuttings/Aminah H. and Rozihawati Z. 4. Estimation of resin yield from Boswellia papyrifera Del. (Hochst) in Jebel Marra, Darfur, Sudan/Abuelgasim A. Adam, Abdalla M. El Tayeb and A. Elhouri Ahmed. 5. Market survey on the demand of medicinal plants: a case study of Jaipur, Rajasthan/K.K. Chaudhuri, D.K. Mishra and J.K. Shukla. 6. Effect of pre-treatments on seed germination in Cassia angustifolia Vahl./D.K. Mishra, K.K. Chaudhuri and Vedpal Singh. 7. Assessment of soil-site suitability for commercial cultivation of Cassia angustifolia Vahl. in extreme arid conditions of Jaisalmer/B.K. Kandpal, R.S. Mertia and Daleep Singh. 8. Assessment of guggal (Commiphora wightii (Arn.) Bhandari) provenances for their suitability at extreme arid situation of Jaisalmer/R.S. Mertia, B.K. Kandpal and Daleep Singh. 9. Conservation of medicinal plants (trees and shrubs) through homestead husbandry in rural Bangladesh/Khaled Misbahuzzaman and Mohammad Khasru Noman. 10. Germination behaviour of Jatropha curcas L. in fly ash incorporated medium/P. Masilamani, K.T. Parthiban, K. Annadurai and R. Marimuthu. 11. Multipurpose trees with medicinal values: an expanding role in agroforestry/P. Rai, Rajeev Tiwari and Ajit. 12. Ex-situ conservation approach through cultivation of medicinal plants in Madhya Pradesh/Ravi Srivastava and J.L. Shrivastava. 13. Medicinal plants as an option for ensuring livelihood in arid and semi-arid regions/R.B.S. Rawat and R.C. Uniyal. 14. Effect of sowing method on growth and yield of Ashwagandha in black soil under Gmelina Arborea based agroforestry system/R.K. Prajapati, Sunil Puri, M.N. Naugraiya and R. Koulini Sri. 15. Variation in oil content and its composition in neem seed from trees under different climatic conditions/N. Saxena and M.S. Malik. 16. Germination and seedling quality studies on an aphrodisiac plant - Blepharis sindica/Manish Mathur and S. Sundaramoorthy. 17. RAPD for identifying chlorophytum borivilianum adulteration/Sebastian Vadakan, L. D'Cruz and V.J. Braganza. 18. Ex situ conservation practices of Ganwarpatha (Aloe vera) in Madhya Pradesh/A. Vijayaraghavan, A.K. Patra and D.L. Nandeshwar. 19. Analysing the availability of medicinal plants and their export potential in India/D.K. Mishra, K.K. Chaudhuri, Ved Pal Singh and J.K. Shukla. 20. Ethno-medicinally important tree species of west Midnapore district (West Bengal), having potentiality in drug development/D.K. Mishra and S.C. Agarwal. 21. Domestication strategy for Nothapodytes nimmoniana: an important anti-cancer drug yielding threatened tree/H.C. Hombe Gowda and R. Vasudeva. 22. Seed germination studies in medicinal plants of commercial value/D.K. Mishra, K.K. Chaudhuri, Ved Pal Singh and J.K. Shukla. 23. Sandal (santalum album L.) a High Value Tree (HVT) species - potential multi purpose tree of arid/semi arid region/S.H. Jain, Ranjana Arya, Hemant Kumar and K.K. Chaudhuri. 24. Verifying molecular level changes in curculigo orchioides Gaertn/G.K. Vaidya, V.A. Sebastian, L. D'Cruz, O.P. Saxena and V.J. Braganza. Modelling Growth and Production: 1. Potential of Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis and Robinia pseudoacacia for livestock browse: biomass and foliar nutritive value/D.M. Burner, D.H. Pote and A. Ares. 2. Methods and procedures for defining best silvicultural practices and management regimes for fast-growing tree plantations/Markku Kanninen and Diego Perez. 3. Tree allometry, volume and above ground biomass yield in a seven-year-old acacia mangium. Willd stand at Thiruvazhamkunnu, India/T.K. Kunhamu, B. Mohan Kumar and S. Vishwanath. 4. Silvia: a flexible system for integrated plantation management/Alvaro Vallejo, Markku Kanninen, Marcelino Montero and Edgar Viquez. 5. Individual tree growth models for an Ailanthus excelsa Roxb. plantation in the hot arid region of India/V.P. Tewari. Trees Outside Forests Including Agroforestry: 1. Growth rates of multipurpose trees of the home gardens in Bangladesh/M.A. Latif. 2. Trees outside forests in West-African drylands inventories, growth measurements and management concepts/P.C. Christensen, A.M. Jensen, P.D. Kone and R. Nygard. 3. Multipurpose tree species of Eastern India with special reference to NTFP's/B.S. Chandrashekar. 4. Web enabled computerized databases on multipurpose trees in Indian agroforestry: a holistic approach for information dissemination/Ajit, P. Rai, A.K. Handa, Sudhakar Choudhari, Y.V. Krishna Prasad and Ajay Babu. 5. Trees outside Forest (ToF) assessment in Brazilian Savannah/Edgar Gaya Banks Machado and Jose Imanas Encinas. 6. Tree planting activities in a subsistence farming system context: farmer's attitudes and priorities/V. Ratheesan, S. Gopakumar, A.V. Santhoshkumar, K. Gopikumar and C.L. Babu. 7. Trees outside forest in Himachal Pradesh : an overview/R.K. Kapoor and Sushil Kumar. 8. Trees outside forest in an Indian urban environment/Klaus Seeland. 9. Ecological assessment, utilization and conservation of useful plants of the Banyang-Mbo wildlife sanctuary/Diangha Mercy Nambu. 10. Changes of tree crown cover on pasture land- a case study from Costa Rica/David Morales-Hidalgo, Christoph Kleinn and Stefan Kunth. 11. Multipurpose utilities of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)/P. Murugesan, Shinoj Subramanian, R.K. Mathur, M. Kochu Babu and R.S.N. Pillai. 12. Trees on agricultural fields: a unique basis of life support in Thar Desert/Pratap Narain and J.C. Tewari. 13. Effect of moisture conservation techniques on growth and yield of aonla in agrihorticulture system under rainfed conditions/Ram Newaj, P. Rai and Ajit. 14. Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo Roxb.) based agri-silvi production system for rainfed conditions of Gujarat/F.K. Modh, S.B.S. Tikka, S.N. Jaimini and N.M. Patel. 15. Enhancing biomass productivity of MPTs in agroforestry systems in Southern India/S. Viswanath, R. Peddappaiah and T.S. Rathore. 16. Tree farming through jhum cultivation: a kind of agro forestry in Nagaland/S.P. Tripathi. 17. Coffee based agroforestry: a means of conserving tropical biodiversity/B.N. Satish, Ramakrishna Hegde, C.G. Kushalappa, S. Raghavendra, N.A. Prakash and K.S. Murali. 18. Performance of acacia mangium in plantations and homesteads under various agro-climatic zones of Kerala/C. Buvaneswaran and M. George. 19. Tree associated diversity and productivity of vegetation recovered after a severe drought in Indian desert/G. Singh, T.R. Rathod, S. Mutha, S. Upadhyaya and N. Bala. 20. Effect of neem (Azadirachta indica) on arable crops and soil fertility/J.M. Patel, S.N. Jaimini, N.M. Patel, S.B. Patel and P.M. Patel. 21. Trees outside forest as a source of leaf protein concentrate/Mala Rathore and Rajendra Meena. 22. Mahua: a potential NTFP for employment generation in tribal area/M. Patel and S.N. Naik. 23. Moisture content and viability of neem seeds collected from different agroclimatic conditions/M.S. Malik and N. Saxena. 24. Growth performance and chlorophyll content of syzygium campanulatum treated with uniconazole/Ahmad Nazarudin M.R., F.Y. Tsan and R.Mohd Fauzi. 25. Foliage colours: significant attributes for urban landscape use/Ahmad Nazarudin M.R. and Sreetheran Maruthaveeran. 26. Agroforestry models for arid region of India/S. Mohan, R.K Gupta, R.L. Meena, Sangeeta Tripathi and Balbir Singh. 27. The study of structure and biodiversity on shrubs in the three Gorges reservoir area in China/Cheng Ruimei and Xiao Wenfa. 28. Obtaining resource information on trees outside the forest: experiences with inventory approaches in Central America/Christoph Kleinn and David Morales. Improvement Strategies for Multipurpose Trees: 1. Performance of Acacia nilotica (L.) willd. ex Delile seedlots in an international series of provenance trials/A. Raebild, E.D. Kjaer and L. Graudal. 2. Floral biology of Khejri (Prosopis cineraria (L.) Druce)/S.B.S. Tikka, J.S. Patel and F.K. Modh. 3. Somatic embryogenesis and agrobacterium mediated transformation of eucalyptus tereticornis sm./M.G. Prakash and K. Gurumurthi. 4. Genetic variability and associated studies on clones of Bambusa bamboo and Dendrocalamus strictus/N. Sathesh, P. Ratha Krishnan and M. Paramathma. 5. Selection of casuarina junghuhniana miq. provenances for multiple end uses in India/A. Nicodemus, Mohan Varghese and B. Nagarajan. 6. Forest plantation in rainfed condition using the multipurpose species Olea europaea L./H. Sardabi and M.H. Assareh. 7. Genetic variability and association studies in clonal traits of kapok (Ceiba pentandra Linn. Gaertn.) in Tamil Nadu/P. Rajendran, M. Paramathma K.S. Neelakantan and K.T. Parthiban. 8. Genetic variability and association studies in pod and seed characteristics of kapok (Ceiba pentandra Linn. Gaertn.) in Tamil Nadu/P. Rajendran, M. Paramathma, K.S. Neelakantan and K.T. Parthiban. 9. Screening and multiplication of superior genotypes of neem for quality wood production/P. Ratha Krishnan, M. Paramathma and K.T. Parthiban. 10. Genetic variation in wood properties in segregating populations of eucalyptus hybrids/S.K. Verma, A.K. Mandal, V.K. Sharma, H.S. Ginwal and S.K. Sharma. 11. Cloning of Acacia nilotica for multiplication and establishment of clonal seed orchard/S.K. Sharma, S.K. Verma and P.P. Bhojvaid. 12. Direct in vitro shoot morphogenesis in desert date Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) del. from root segments/Vinod Singh Gour, C.J.S.K. Emmanuel and Tarun Kant. 13. Reproductive biology and half-sib family performance for early vigour in white Cedar (dysoxylum malabaricum bedd)/R. Vasudeva, L. Manjunath, Rajesh P. Gunaga, H.C. Hombe Gowda, R. Uma Shaanker and K.N. Ganeshaiah. 14. Macro propagation studies on padauk (Pterocarpus dalebrgioides)/A. Venkatesh. 15. Evaluation of plus tree progenies of neem for growth and fruit yield/V.K. Gupta, R.V. Kumar, S.P. Ahlawat and A. Datta. 16. Selection of plus trees of Schleichera oleosa (lour.) oken - a multipurpose tree/Animesh Sinha. 17. Plant regeneration of ziziphus spina-christi by in vivo and in vitro methods/M.H. Assareh, H. Sardabi and F. Sabbaghzadeh. 18. Evaluation of clones selected from seedling seed orchards of eucalyptus camaldulensis and E. tereticornis in Tamil Nadu/N. Ravi and Mohan Varghese. 19. Variations in phenological patterns in Azadirachta indica A. Juss (neem) in Satpura and adjacent agro-climatic zones of Madhya Pradesh (India)/P.K. Pande and Jagdesh Singh. 20. Estimation of variability in growth characters of twenty-three ramets of Kapok (ceiba pentandra linn. gaertn) in clonal evaluation trial in Tamil Nadu/P. Rajendran, M. Paramathma, K.S. Neelakantan and K.T. Parthiban. 21. Genetic divergence studies in plus tree families of bauhinia variegate Linn. for its growth and biomass traits/R.K. Anand, K.C. Chauhan and Santosh Kumar A. Huse. 22. Evaluation of growth and standardization of propagation methods of exotic Simarouba Glauca in Tamil Nadu/P. Ratha Krishnan, J. Sundersingh Rajapandian and K.S. Neelakantan. 23. Genetic architecture of bunch weight and bunch number in young oil palm/R.K. Mathur, P. Murugesan, R.S.N. Pillai and S. Kapashi. Subject Index.