Recent Progress In Medicinal Plants (Search For Natural Drugs)

by J.N. Govil, V. K. SINGH

Overview

The current worldwide trend towards the utilization of natural plant-remedies has created an enormous need for information about the properties and uses of medicinal plants. This revival of interest in plant-derived drugs is mainly due to the current wide-spread belief that natural medicine is safe and more dependable than the costly synthetic drug, many of which have adverse side-effects. Based on this rationale, the present volume of the series Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants: Search for Natural Drugs has been conceived and provides recent research data on 30 research and review articles: received from eminent scientists in India and abroad. The volume has been designed for a wide range of audience in the field of photochemistry, pharmacology, biotechnology, toxicology, ethno medicine, drug standardization, microbiology, medical sciences and other researchers interested in the discovery of new natural drugs. The contributors are from far and wide including USA, China, U.K., Spain, Mexico, Belgium, Brazil, Peru, Romania, Italy, Australia, Austria, Nigeria, Iran and India.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626993068
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	551
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Dr. J.N. Govil (b. 1945): Obtained his Masters and Doctorate degrees from Agra University, Agra, India. In his career span of 41 years research experience at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, Dr. Govil has been involved in the breeding of cross-pollinated, often cross-pollinated, and self pollinatedcrops. His research is mainly focussed on breeding for better quality, disease resistance, and for higher productivity in Pennisetum, Sorghum, maize,chickpea, and pigeonpea. Dr. Govil has been well exposed to the international scientific community through various training programmes. He took his training in "Plant exploration and collection techinques" through IBPGR in 1982. He was also awarded the prestigious FAO/IBPGR Fellowship in "Genetic resources, evaluation, and data preparation and management" at the University of Birmingham, UK. In 1983, he made visits to gene banks located in Europe. He also participated in various international seminars and conferences, including "Food and Legume Improvement for Asian Farming Systems" in Thailand in 1986. Dr. Govil is credited with more than eighty research papers in various journals of national and international repute in various aspects of genetics, crop breeding, and topics on general agriculture. He has written and edited a number of books on medicinal Plants (2 Vols each of two titles) and other books with international authors. A new series "Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants" has been published by Studium Press, LLC,USA in 24 volumes under Dr. Govil's Chief Editorship. Dr. Govil has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journals, New Botanist (An International Journal of Plant Research) and Glimpses in Plant Research, since 1988. He has also guided more than a dozen post-graduate students. Currently, Dr. J.N. Govilis actively engaged through his leadership on pigeonpea breeding with special emphasis on "Breeding short duration pigeonpea varieties for improved management and low input conditions." Through his intensive efforts over the last 20 years, nine varieties of early pigeonpea in arhar-wheat rotation have been released at national level.