Recent Trends in Spices and Medicinal Plants Research
Recent Trends in Spices and Medicinal Plants Research

Author: Amit Krishna de

Publisher:

Published: 2024-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789359191737

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The hills and oceans of India contain a variety of medicinal plants, which have been used traditionally for treatment of various diseases. Most of these plants are known to the local tribes and remains scientifically unexplored. Books on medicinal plants or spices are available in the market but a book dealing together with both medicinal plants and spices is quite new. This book contains a variety of topics and is the first of its kind that deals exclusively with traditional and medicinal uses, cultivation, preservation, processing and trade of not only medicinal plants but also spices. Moreover, this book provides valuable information o the current status of research related to herbal medicines throughout the country and tries to explain the folklore and traditional uses in terms of modern scientific findings. The data in this book will be specially of use to pharmacists, analysts, botanists, toxicologists, chemists, pharmacognosists and biochemists.

Ancient Knowledge Networks
Ancient Knowledge Networks

Author: Eleanor Robson

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2019-11-14

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1787355942

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.Addressing the relationships between political power, family ties, religious commitments and literate scholarship in the ancient Middle East of the first millennium BC, Eleanor Robson focuses on two regions where cuneiform script was the predominant writing medium: Assyria in the north of modern-day Syria and Iraq, and Babylonia to the south of modern-day Baghdad. She investigates how networks of knowledge enabled cuneiform intellectual culture to endure and adapt over the course of five world empires until its eventual demise in the mid-first century BC. In doing so, she also studies Assyriological and historical method, both now and over the past two centuries, asking how the field has shaped and been shaped by the academic concerns and fashions of the day. Above all, Ancient Knowledge Networks is an experiment in writing about ‘Mesopotamian science’, as it has often been known, using geographical and social approaches to bring new insights into the intellectual history of the world’s first empires.

Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes
Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes

Author: Parvaiz Ahmad

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-28

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1461488249

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Abiotic stress drastically limits agricultural crop productivity worldwide. Climate change threatens the sustainable agriculture with its rapid and unpredictable effects, making it difficult for agriculturists and farmers to respond to the challenges cropping up from environmental stresses. In light of population growth and climate changes, investment in agriculture is the only way to avert wide scale food shortages. This challenge comes at a time when plant sciences are witnessing remarkable progress in understanding the fundamental processes of plant growth and development. Plant researchers have identified genes controlling different aspects of plant growth and development, but many challenges still exist in creating an apt infrastructure, access to bioinformatics and good crop results. Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes, Volume 2 focuses on many existing opportunities that can be applied methodically through conventional breeding, without touching upon the latest discoveries such as the power of genomics to applied breeding in plant biology. Written by a diverse faction of internationally famed scholars, this volume adds new horizons in the field of crop improvement, genetic engineering and abiotic stress tolerance. Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated, Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes, Volume 2 is a state-of-the-art guide to recent developments vis-à-vis various aspects of plant responses in molecular and biochemical ways to create strong yields and overall crop improvement.

Detoxification of Heavy Metals
Detoxification of Heavy Metals

Author: Irena Sherameti

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 3642214088

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Heavy metals are severe environmental pollutants, and many of them are toxic even at very low concentrations. With industrial development, soil pollution with heavy metal elements have dramatically increased. The uptake of heavy metals via plants that are exposed to contaminated soils is a risk for human health and a major hazard for the ecosystem as a whole, including soil microorganisms. On the other hand, plants may be used in the decontamination of soils. The topics presented in this book include: sources of heavy metals contaminants in soils; plant species that can grow on contaminated soils; the phytoremediation of contaminated soils; tolerance, accumulation and detoxification mechanisms of zinc, copper, arsenic, cadmium and vanadium in plants; the critical role of sulfur metabolism in heavy metal tolerance; the role of aquatic macrophytes, plant growth-promoting bacteria, sugar crops and earthworms in detoxification; and heavy metal stabilization by promoting zeolite synthesis in soils.

State and Capital in Post-Colonial India
State and Capital in Post-Colonial India

Author: Chirashree Das Gupta

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-11-02

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1107102243

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

""Discusses the specific relationship between state and capital in forging the dynamic role of institutions of the state and market that form the basis of capital accumulation in economies undergoing transition"--Provided by publisher"--