Diseases of Major Medicinal Plants

AUTHOR: K. K. Janardhanan
ISBN: 9798170352647
YEAR: 2002 (First Edition)
PAGES: 203
BINDING: Hard
LANGUAGE: English

ABOUT THE BOOK

Plants continue to be the major source of drugs, inspite of the phenomenal development in the synthetic compounds during the last two decades. Due to the realization of the toxicity associated with I synthetic drugs, the importance of plant drugs enhanced substantially in the recent years. This resulted in the increased demand of medicinal plants many fold. Since the availability of a number of important medicinal plants from natural sources was insufficient to meet the demands of pharmaceutical industries, large-scale cultivation of these plants came into existence. Commercial cultivation dramatically increased the disease problems, number of diseases and their severity, in these plants. No comprehensive compilation of the diseases of important medicinal plants and their control is available. This book Diseases of Major Medicinal Plants, is the first Compilation of the available information of the diseases of important medicinal plants and their control.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. K.K. Janardhanan received B.Sc degree from University of Kerala and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He did his Post¬doctoral work in the Institute of Microbiology, Prague, Czechoslovakia as Visiting Scientist of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
Dr Janardhanan was Deputy Director and Head, Microbiology and Plant Pathology Division, Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow. He spent over 35 years working with fungi. His principal interests are in the areas of fungal metabolites, mushrooms, mycorrhiza and plant disease management. He has authored approximately 100 research papers and 3 books. He is a member of a number of professional societies.

CONTENTS

1. Acknowledgements
2. Foreword
3. Preface
4. Introduction
5. Belladonna
6. Cinchona
7. Coleus
8. Datura
9. Digitalis
10. Dioscorea
11. Ginseng
12. Glycyrrhiza
13. Hyoscyamus
14. Opium poppy
15. Periwinkle
16. Plantago
17. Podophyllum
18. Rauvolfia
19. Senna
20. Withania
21. Bibliography
22. Index