North East (NE) India is one of the 'biodiversity hotspots' of the world supporting about 50% of India's biodiversity. In the sparse to dense forests across alpine to tropical climatic conditions, the NE region has a vast distribution of medicinal plants. The present s...
Numerous bioactive chemicals that are necessary for various therapeutic formulations are known to be produced by the rhizomes of Paris polyphylla Smith. Steroid saponins, which can be divided into two main groups: diosgenin (Dio) glycosides and pennogenin glycosides, are the active ingredients in P...
With the expanding population, the environment is changing greatly, and agriculture is one of the most exposed sectors to these changes and faces a number of challenges like pollution, pathogenic attack, salinity, drought, high and low temperature, and s
Fungal plant pathogens remain a serious threat to the sustainable agriculture and forestry, despite the extensive efforts undertaken to control their spread. White root rot disease is threatening rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations throughout So
Lose any of these, and you will lose your biggest trees. In some parts of the world, populations of big trees are dwindling because their seedings cannot survive. In southern India, for instance, an aggressive non-native bush, Lantana camara, is invading the floor of many forests. Lantana...
So unless the government has a good system of control, or can educate the people, the forests will slowly disappear. This does not only mean that the villagers’ sons and grandsons have fewer trees. The results are even more serious. For where there are trees ,their roots break the soil ...
So unless the government has a great system of control, or can educate the people, the forests slowly disappear. The resaults are more serious: for where there are trees their roots break the soil allowing the rain to sink and also hold the soil, thus preventing it from being washed away...
To the people of India, the Ganges is great, but it is also important for transportation; ships can t___ along it for a thousand miles. Other great rivers are the Congo in Africa and the Mekong in southeastern Asia. The greatest of all for navigation(航海), however, is the Amazon...
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Gordillo A, Decock C (2018) Cylindrocarpon-like (ascomycota, hypocreales) species from the Amazonian rain forests in Ecuador: additions to Campylocarpon and Dactylonectria. Cryptogam Mycol 38:409–434 Article Google Scholar Görg M, Ploch S, Kruse J, Kummer V, Runge F, Choi YJ, Thines ...