The abiotic stress such as water, temperature, and drought influences the production of pharmacologically important secondary metabolites of plant as a defense mechanism. Cassia angustifolia Vahl. is a potent medicinal plant which yields sennosides from its leaves and pods and grow well under water ...

Impatiens parviflora DC. (Small Balsam) is first time collected from Patnitop, Batote forest division in district Ramban, Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The species grows in moist and shady areas in pine forests between 2200 and 2500 m above msl. This is the first record of this...

A comprehensive GC-MS based metabolome analysis was conducted by analyzing the differential solvent derivatized extracts of leaves of male and female seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L. and H. salicifolia D. Don) plants collected from three diverse regions of the Indian Himalayas, namely Himachal ...

In the present communication, two members of the family Strophariaceae have been reported of which Pholiota populnea is a new record from India while P. squarrosa is the first regional record from the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. Pholiota populnea was found on the dead wood of ...

Antheraea assamensis Helfer, popularly known as Muga silkworm, the golden silk producer of Northeast India, is economically important and unique among the Saturniid silkworms. Muga silkworm is said to exhibit three semi-domesticated morphs i.e. green, blue, orange and one wild morph. In this study, ...

Bamboo is one of the non-timber forest products used extensively for a variety of purposes; however, efforts to maintain and improve its cultivation are outweighed by its numerous uses, leading to its decrease in the natural world. Therefore, to sustain the bamboo resource base and enhance the...

Nitrogen (N) loss is a key problem in rice fields, which results in low nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) of applied N and could be a major limitation from economic and environmental perspectives. In order to improve the NUE, use of slow or controlled released N fertilizers could be a potential...

The aim of the study was to investigate the chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of the senescent leaves of Psidium guajava L. (Myrtaceae). The hydrodistilled essential oil of the leaves was analysed by GC-FID and GC-MS. The antimicrobial activity of the oil was...

Multi-location field experiments were conducted in five districts of Punjab (India) during kharif (May-October) 2019 cropping season to evaluate the effect of four doses (1250, 1875, 2500 and 3125 ml ha^-1) of home-made neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) extract against pod sucking bug, Clavigralla...

It is believed from ancient times that more than 80-85% of drugs used to treat harmful diseases are obtained from plants. Synthetic medicines are increasing presently, but they have a lot of side effects and are costly. Therefore, people are looking towards medicinal plants. The present review is...