BACKGROUND This article reports the preliminary findings of an ethno-botanical survey that was carried out in the Thal Desert, Punjab, Pakistan during 2010 to 2013. The aim of this study was to document the traditional use of medicinal plants from the study area. MATERIALS AND METHODS The whole area was surveyed for inventorying medicinal flora by using a semi-structured questionnaire. RESU...

DOI: This paper reviews the progress of systems biology applied to research on sustainable utilization of Chinese materia medica (CMM) resources in the following aspects: identification and evaluation of CMM resources, analysis of biosynthesis and their regulation of active ingredients in medicinal plants, metabolic engineering and synthetic biology research of medicinal plants, and molecular b...

BACKGROUND Many ethnobotanical studies have investigated selection criteria for medicinal and non-medicinal plants. In this paper we test several statistical methods using different ethnobotanical datasets in order to 1) define to which extent the nature of the datasets can affect the interpretation of results; 2) determine if the selection for different plant uses is based on phylogeny, or oth...

The Present investigation was conducted during the year 2012-2013, to study the phylloplane flora from some novel plants of family Ficaceae. It was observed that in nature the plants faces several problems in terms of attack of several pathogens, which cause the diseases. By keeping this view in mind, the above titled study was conducted to observe the relative phylloplanic flora on the sacred ...

BACKGROUND AND QUESTION The harvesting of medicinal plants from wild sources is escalating in many parts of the world, compromising the long-term survival of natural populations of medicinally important plants and sustainability of sources of raw material to meet pharmaceutical industry needs. Although protected areas are considered to play a central role in conservation of plant genetic resour...

An assessment study of the plant diversity in campus Prananath College (Autonomous), Khordha was carried out during 2019-20 and a checklist prepared. A total 241 vascular species belonging to 72 different families were recorded including four Gymnosperms. Among families, Fabaceae, Apocynaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Malvaceae, Lamiaceae Poaceae dominating plants area. Aquatic plants, medicinal ornament...