1. A note on an important edible, rare and the famine food plant of Indian Thar Desert: Glossonema varians (Stocks) Benth. ex Hook.f
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N. K. Dwivedi and Suman Parihar
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,business.industry ,Agroforestry ,Glossonema varians ,Famine food ,Plant Science ,Biology ,01 natural sciences ,Arid ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,Habitat destruction ,Fodder ,Agriculture ,Genetics ,Plant species ,business ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Food scarcity ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
Glossonema varians is a medicinally important, rare, endemic and edible plant species of Thar Desert. Glossonema varians is a perennial herb and well adapted to the arid and semi arid region of the Indian Desert. The plant is used as famine food at the time of food scarcity and local people also used it as fodder. The plant is under rare category due to its large scale harvesting from wild as it is used extensively by the industries and the local population as energy tonic and other medicinal uses. Due to habitat destruction and increased anthropogenic activities, the natural propagation of plant is limited and now found only in the some pockets of Jaisalmer District, Rajasthan. Biotechnological tools can play important role in conservation, propagation and improvement of plant genetic resources of this rare plant species. Present manuscript has summarized the information regarding the occurrence, botanical description, medicinal uses, conservation strategies and scope of research in G. varians. more...
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- 2020
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