Environment

Medicinal plant cultivation.

Large interest groups get medicinal plants collected from the fields and thus they endanger the plant species in natural conditions and many medicinal plants have come in the category of endangered plants due to their overexploitation. One possible answer ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 10 2010 - 11:09am

Every Australian Farmer's Nightmare- The Locusts Are Coming

In Australia this week a crucial battle begins to combat every Australian farmer’s nightmare, the worst locust plague in 40 years. There is a $100 million national campaign in Australia to prevent a locust plague from wiping billions of dollars from the va ...

Article - Helen Barratt - Sep 11 2010 - 1:56am

Medicating The Mega-Cities

Is there a pill that might inoculate us from smog? Is there a gene we can target that would make us resistant to resurgent infectious diseases? And is there a way to use genetic data to insulate new immigrants from some of the metabolic challenges of livin ...

Article - Greg Critser - Sep 10 2010 - 7:59pm

Asparagus racemosus Willd. is exploited heavily from wild conditions

Medicinal plants constitute a vast, undocumented and overexploited economic resource and they are the principle health care resource for the majority of the tribes. Among these Asparagus racemosus Willd is a critically endangered medicinal creeper plant b ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 10 2010 - 7:47pm

Soil will play important role in second green revolution

The First Green Revolution was an effort to create dwarf wheat and rice plants that could prosper with more fertilizer. It was highly successful in India. While this approach worked in Asia and other places where rice and wheat are the staple crops, it did ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 10 2010 - 7:53pm

Neolamarckia cadamaba (Roxb.) Bosser (=Anthocephaus cadamba (Roxb.) Miq. is Kadamb tree of Mathura has medicinal value

Neolamarckia cadamaba (Roxb.) Bosser (=Anthocephaus cadamba (Roxb.) Miq. The name given in Disc is (=A. chinensis (Lam.) A. Rich. ex Walp. syn. A. cadamba (Roxb.) Miq., A. indicus A. Rich. Family Rubiaceae Used Part Inflorescence. Kadamb tree was supposed ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 11 2010 - 6:24am

Jaipur is not among the 8 green cities what a pity

One survey listed 8 cities of India where green cover has increased Alas Jaipur was not in the list. Jaipur a city basically surrounded by the hills on three sides having a mansager lake in the city a amber mavtha in original Jaipur was once filled with wa ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 11 2010 - 8:37pm

The name Vrindavan originated with Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum)

Vrindavan famous religious place near Mathura is named as Vrindavan Vrinda is name for Tulsi (Ocimum) and van is forest. It had thick forests of Tulsi Ocimum interspersed with Salvadora oleodes and Salvadora persica. Now its difficult to see such forests o ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 11 2010 - 8:47pm

Can gut microbiota hold key for fermenation process development for ethanol formation from cellulose.

The relative presence of microbiota may determine the use of partly digested food and regulate the food uptake and utilization in fatty and lean person? Doctors know it better. Distal gut microbiota which constitutes the Firmicutes (the largest bacterial p ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 12 2010 - 1:29am

An environmental factor that limits crop productivity or destroys biomass is referred to as a stress or disturbance

An environmental factor that limits crop productivity or destroys biomass is referred to as a stress or disturbance (Grime, 1979). Salinity in soil or water is one of the major stresses and, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, can severely limit crop ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 12 2010 - 4:13am