Text Book of Applied Phytology

Abstract

India is considered as one of the megadiverse countries of the World. The floral and the vegetational diversity of this country not only provides an endless opportunity to study the plant systematics but it also opens several new vistas of plant sciences like Ethnobotany, Biotechnology, Endemism, Phytogeography and Biodiversity and its conservational strategies, etc. However, all these present subjects had initiated their journey as the branches of Botanical Science. Vrikshyayurveda ” (Science of plants and plants life) of Parashara(800B.C.) is one of the earliest treatises dealing with the plants from the scientific view point. It was the basis of the botanical teaching, preparatory to medical studies in ancient India. This book is embodied with several chapters, dealing with different aspects of the plant sciences like immune stimulant, herbal medicine, pharmacology, and description of the plant parts, nature and types of the applications. The principal objectives of this seminar were to search and to identify the scope and recent development of plant sciences, interconnecting with other allied and apparently non allied subjects