Plant Diversity and Conservation
Contents: 1. Satellite remote sensing for forest management/P.S. Roy and Sameer Saran. 2. Threatened species and ecosystems: restoration and conservation strategies/Ekta Khurana and J.S. Singh. 3. Ex-Situ conservation of germplasm seeds in National Gene Bank/B.B. Singh and Veena Gupta. 4. Management of floodplains/V.P. Bhatnagar, Anil Kumar and J.N. Shrivastava. 5. Conservation and management of alpine meadows: a case study from the Valley of Flowers National Park, Western Himalaya/C.P. Kala and G.S. Rawat. 6. Management of Eichhornia crassipes through Tilization/R.P. Singh and M.K. Singh. 7. Management of endangered species in lotic and lentic aqueous systems/Anuj Kumar Shrivastava. 8. Physical and chemical features of spoils after open cast mining in India/R. Prasad and B.K. Roy. 9. Changes in growth behaviour, major metabolites and nitrogenase activity of the Cyanobacterium Aulosira Fertillissima under nitrogen shift/A.K. Dubey, Vandna Rai, S.P. Tiwari, Ravi Narain and Ashwani K. Rai. 10. Potential and conservation of Solanum species/B.R. Chaudhary and Bishwajeet Kumar. 11. Response of stream periphyton to current velocity and In Situ nutrient enrichment/Mita Ghosh and J.P. Gaur. 12. Biosorption of heavy metals by field and laboratory-grown microcystis sp. and its implication in bioremediation of metal degraded habitats/Subhashree Pradhan, Sarita Singh, Anil Kumar Singh and L.C. Rai. 13. Algal species diversity in different habitats of Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica: a survey/A.K. Kashyap and S.P. Shukla. 14. Biotechnology in conservation of genetic resources/Ritu Singh, Ruchi Maggon, Kirti Srivastava and B.D. Singh. 15. Suppression of injurious effects of ozone on Soybean plants by antioxidant ethylenediurea (Edu) in controlled environments/S.B. Agrawal. 16. Heavy metal toxicity in plants: the phytotoxic role of cadmium/R.S. Dubey. 17. Strategies for the conservation of Lilium mackliniae, a threatened Lily from Manipur/P.S. Yadava, E.J. Singh and Th. B. Singh. 18. Impact of mining activities on plant diversity with special reference to coalfield of Dhanbad District/H. Roy and P.K. Mishra. 19. Biodiversity conservation and utilization in horticultural crops/U.P. Singh, C.B.S. Rajput and Rajesh Singh. 20. In vitro regeneration of Butea monosperma, a multipurpose leguminous tree/M. Haseeb Mughal, Saba, Alka Narula and P.S. Srivastava. 21. Impact of thermal power pollution on a medicinal plant grown In Vivo and In Vitro/Nandita Singh, M. Purohit, M. Iqbal and P.S. Srivastava. 22. In Vitro conservation of Lepidium sativum - a source of tropane alkaloid/Saba, Deepshikha Pande, Alka Narula, M.H. Mughal and P.S. Srivastava. 23. Conservation of algal diversity in India/Inderdeep Kaur and Manoj Kumar. 24. Microbial enzymes and detoxification strategies for environmental protection/Ved Pal Singh. 25. Fungal diversity : past, present and future/K.G. Mukerji. 26. Molecular basis of plant-symbiotic fungi interaction: an overview/Anjana Singh, Puja Sharma, Ralf Oelmueller, Meenu Sachdeva and Ajit Varma. 27. Toxicity and accumulation of heavy metals in aquatic flowering plants/Hridya Jyoti, Monika Koul and A.K. Bhatnagar. 28. Diversity of bryovegetation in India : its importance and conservation/Prem Lal Uniyal.
"The volume in hand, presents research contributions and review articles, which include some of the important areas of plant diversity and conservation such as satellite remote sensing for forest management, strategies for restoration and conservation of threatened species, and ex-situ and in-situ conservation and management of diverse plant species. A variety of other parameters related to the metabolic transformations, biotechnology in the conservation of genetic resources, molecular basis of plant-microbe interaction and heavy metal toxicity, have also been dealt with in the present volume.
This volume will provide new dimensions to identify major problems and prospects in the area of plant diversity and conservation and will generate thought-provoking ideas for conservationists, environmentalists and biotechnologists to develop new strategies for strengthening this field of immense importance to mankind.
The volume intends to provide an opportunity to scientists to have clear understanding of this subject and will provide an interface between scientists, agriculturists, forest managers, planners and the academic world."
