Megha Panpalia MachharBanasthali Vidyapith, Tonk, Rajsthan Both, plants and animals, have in one way or the other embarked on mimetic phenomenon as a means to thrive well in this dynamic and ever challenging environmental surroundings. The plant kingdom is overwhelmed with number of genus and species. The plants are well-known for their adaptive strategies to…
P. Chhetri*, A.K. Vijayan, S.K. Bhat, B.A. Gudade and S.S. Bora Indian Cardamom Research Institute, Regional Research Station, Spices Board, Tadong, Gangtok, Sikkim-737102 *E-mail: prashantchhetri24@gmail.com Abstract Spices grouping has a broad application prospective in agriculture and medicine and is especially significant to the biology diversity research. As spices are vitally important in medicinal value, it…
FERN (Foumdation for Educational Rendezvous with Nature) is conducting A Certificate Course in Botany, covering Identification, Habitats, Ecology & Conservation in Thane. This short duration course (12 weeks) is distributed as 4 lectures (one & half hour each) and one local field visit per week, total being 48 lectures & 12 field visits during the…
Dr Saubhik Das, a botanist from Taki Government College (affiliated with West Bengal State University), North 24 Parganas of West Bengal discovered a new species, Amaranthus parganensis. The new species has been described from the lower Gangetic Plain of West Bengal, India. Its morphology and distributional range suggest that it is related to A. tricolor…
Tweet During the year 2013 the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) has discovered twenty nine new species to science. Out of these 29 species/varieties 20 are angiosperms, 8 fungi and 1 lichen. In addition 40 new records for India (species/ varieties) have been described during the year 2013. BSI is the apex research organisation under…
Tweet Scientists from Virginia Tech and Pennsylvania State University have discovered a potentially new form of plant communication, one that allows them to share an extraordinary amount of genetic information with one another. Jim Westwood, a professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, throws open the…
Tweet Cover- American J Botany; 101(1) American Journal of Botany, was launched in 1914. Since then over a period of hundred years AJB has published approximately 16500 articles, with an average of more than 160 and 13 articles per year and month respectively. Many articles published in AJB are highly cited and are from various…
Tweet Rabish Chandra @rabishchandra on twitter Happy International Women’s Day 2014! Since the days of my higher secondary school, I have observed Botany is always dominated by female. In a class of thirty postgraduate students at Ranchi University, India, each year the average admission of male students were five to six in number. Whereas in…
Tweet Embryogenesis in plants starts once the fertilization takes place and covers upto the start of dormancy. In recent past there have been lot of developments to understand embryo development in dicot plants. Here Dr Simmi Yadav through her presentation recaps the basics of embroy and its development in dicotyledons plant. This presentation may provide…
