Economic Botany. Prof. P. V. Trivedi Festschrift Volume. 2007. XL, 408 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Contents: Preface. Biography and contributions to Botany of Prof. P.C. Trivedi. 1. Medicinal plants: botany, propagation, diseases and uses/Sampat Nehra, Sonali Pandey, Seema Choudhary and Poonam Meena. 2. Ethnomedicinal studies on family asteraceae for their propagation and antimicrobial activity/N.P. Bhalla and Suman Bhalla. 3. Note on plants used in wounds and cuts by farmers of Kheda District, Gujarat/P.P. Parikh, A.M. Patel, D.C. Bhatt and P.K. Patel. 4. Timber yielding plants/N.K. Sharma. 5. Tannin and dyes from plants/Poonam Meena, Seema Choudhary and Sampat Nehra. 6. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages from plants/Garima Gupta and Anuradha Singh. 7. Plant fibres: characteristics and uses/Anuradha Singh and Garima Gupta. 8. Spices and condiments/Seema Choudhary, Sampat Nehra and Poonam Meena. 9. Conservation and management strategies for medicinal and threatened plant species in Kutch District, Gujarat/P.N. Joshi, S.F. Wesley Sunderraj and D.C. Bhatt. 10. Indigenous knowledge of biodiversity used for sustainable development/D.K. Kulkarni and A.S. Upadhye. 11. Pharmaceutically significant hypocholesterolemic spirulina/Pushpa Srivastava and Sunita Chandgothia. 12. Application of CITES in the conservation of Indian phytodiversity/Anil K. Goel. 13. Ethnobotanical significance of Euphorbiacae in Saurashtra, Gujarat, India/D.C. Bhatt, B.A. Jadeja, U.S. Baxi and G.K. Chavda. 14. Preliminary study of some grass species in Kutch District, Gujarat, India/P.N. Joshi, D.C. Bhatt, K.D. Sorthia, and B.A. Jadeja. 15. Etymological history of some floral elements--a case study of Kutch District, Gujarat, India/P.N. Joshi, D.C. Bhatt, Hiren Soni and Justus Joshua. 16. Study of soil and coastal vegetation of Bhavnagar to Kuda/S.K. Dodia, H.G. Jadeja, B.B. Maitrey and D.C. Bhatt. 17. Tissue culture of a red alga gelidiella acerosa/S.K. Dodia, C.R.K. Reddy and D.C. Bhatt. 18. Study of protoplast isolation in four species of Ulva/H.M. Baraiya, C.R.K. Reddy, S.K. Dodia, P.I. Lashkari and D.C. Bhatt. 19. Ecological study on the dominant tree and shrub species of Kutch District, Gujarat, India/D.C. Bhatt, P.N. Joshi and Justus Joshua. 20. Mycotoxin problem in oilseeds with special reference to mustard/K.K. Sinha and M.S. Ahmad. Index