Current scenario of protection: India presently has around 2.2 lakh big wetlands covering over 2.2 hectares and 5.5 lakh smaller ones. Of these, nearly 60,000 big wetlands are situated inside protected forest areas which could be deemed as safe. Of the remaining, conservation work has been car...
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But a more holistic approach is still required as more and more developmental projects are increasing, the areas under forest cover is decreasing hence the need to take all stakeholder on board and designing a more comprehensive roadmap is the need of the hour. Providing statutory authority to P...
Cell walls of higher plants have significantly more xylan than lower plants such as the bryophytes indicating that a change in the proportion of the hemicellulose polymer present in cell walls may have been a key step in plant evolution [6,9,12,13]. The hemicellulose glucuronoxylan (GX) is...