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Plant Biodiversity Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation Plant Biodiversity Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation Edited by Abid A. Ansari Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia Sarvajeet S. Gill Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Lab, Centre for Biotechnology, MD University, Haryana, India Zahid Khorshid Abbas Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia and M. Naeem Plant Physiology Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, India CABI is a trading name of CAB International CABI CABI Nosworthy Way 745 Atlantic Avenue Wallingford 8th Floor Oxfordshire OX10 8DE Boston, MA 02111 UK USA Tel: +44 (0)1491 832111 Tel: +1 (617) 682-9015 Fax: +44 (0)1491 833508 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cabi.org © CAB International 2017. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronically, mechanically, by photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owners. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library, London, UK. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Ansari, Abid A., editor. | Gill, Sarvajeet Singh, editor. | Abbas, Zahid Khorshid, editor. | Naeem, M., 1980- editor. Title: Plant biodiversity : monitoring, assessment, and conservation / edited by Abid A. Ansari, Sarvajeet S. Gill, Zahid Khorshid Abbas, and M. Naeem. Description: Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Boston, MA : CABI International, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016041120 (print) | LCCN 2016042121 (ebook) | ISBN 9781780646947 (hbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781780646961 (ePDF) | ISBN 9781780646954 (ePub) Subjects: LCSH: Plant diversity. | Plant diversity conservation. | MESH: Plant Physiological Phenomena | Biodiversity | Ecosystem Classification: LCC QK46.5.D58 P526 2016 (print) | LCC QK46.5.D58 (ebook) | NLM QK 717 | DDC 581.7--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016041120 ISBN-13: 978 1 78064 694 7 Commissioning editor: Ward Cooper Editorial assistant: Emma McCann Production editor: Tim Kapp Typeset by SPi, Pondicherry, India Printed and bound by Gutenberg Press Limited, Tarxien, Malta Contents Contributors ix Abbreviations xiii PArt I: PLAnt BIoDIversIty – An overvIew 1 new Challenges to Promote Botany’s Practice Using Botanic Gardens: the Case study of the Lisbon Botanic Garden 1 Maria Amélia Martins-Loução and Gisela Gaio-Oliveira 2 new Horizons in Diversification of temperate Fruit Crops 18 Mohammad Maqbool Mir, Umar Iqbal, Sheikh Mehraj, Shabir Ahmad Mir, Munib ur Rehman, Shafat Ahmad Banday and Ghulam Hasan Rather 3 Asteraceae of India: its Diversity and Phytogeographical Affinity 36 Sunit Mitra and Sobhan Kumar Mukherjee 4 Maintenance of Plant species Diversity in Forest ecosystems 71 Kathryn E. Barry and Stefan A. Schnitzer PArt II: PLAnt BIoDIversIty AnD etHnoBotAny 5 Plant Diversity of the Drylands in southeastern Anatolia-turkey: role in Human Health and Food security 83 Munir Ozturk, Volkan Altay, Salih Gucel and Ernaz Altundag 6 observations on some ethnomedicinal Plants of Jharkhand 125 Sanjeev Kumar PArt III: PLAnt BIoDIversIty AnD BIoCHeMICAL PArAMeters 7 Plant Diversity: envisioning Untold nanofactories for Biogenic synthesis of nanoparticles and their Applications 133 Syed Baker, K.S. Kavitha, P. Azmath, D. Rakshith, B.P. Harini and S. Satish 8 Plant Diversity repertoire of Bioactive triterpenoids 152 K.S. Kavitha, Syed Baker, D. Rakshith, P. Azmath, B.P. Harini and S. Satish PArt Iv: PLAnt BIoDIversIty AnD CLIMAtIC FACtors 9 roles of secondary Metabolites in Protection and Distribution of terrestrial Plants under Climatic stresses 170 Asma Hammami-Semmar and Nabil Semmar v 10 summer semi-deciduous species of the Mediterranean Landscape: A winning strategy of Cistus species to Face the Predicted Changes of the Mediterranean Climate 195 Otília Correia and Lia Ascensão PArt v: PLAnt BIoDIversIty AnD envIronMentAL stUDIes 11 Aquatic Plant Biodiversity: A Biological Indicator for the Monitoring and Assessment of water Quality 218 Abid Ali Ansari, Shalini Saggu, Sulaiman Mohammad Al-Ghanim, Zahid Khorshid Abbas, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Fareed A. Khan, Mudasir Irfan Dar, Mohd Irfan Naikoo and Akeel A. Khan 12 Gymnosperm Diversity of the Kashmir Himalayas 228 Mohd Irfan Naikoo, Mudasir Irfan Dar, Fareed Ahmad Khan, Abid Ali Ansari, Farha Rehman and Fouzia Nousheen PArt vI: Cross tALK Between PLAnt AnD MICroBIAL BIoDIversIty 13 Diversity of Plant Parasitic nematodes in Pulses 239 Tarique Hassan Askary 14 the Influence of soil Microbes on Plant Diversity 275 Mohammad Mobin 15 Plant-associated endophytic Plethora as an emerging source of Antimicrobials 282 Syed Baker, P. Azmath, H.C. Yashavantha Rao, D. Rakshith, K.S. Kavitha and S. Satish PArt vII: PLAnt BIoDIversIty: MonItorInG AnD AssessMent 16 Biodiversity, Bioindicators and Biogeography of Freshwater Algae 295 Martin T. Dokulil 17 Quantitative Description of Upper storey vegetation at a Foothill Forest in Indian eastern Himalayas 309 Gopal Shukla, Nazir A. Pala, Saikat Gantait and Sumit Chakravarty 18 significance of Permanent sample Plots (PsPs) established in Different Forest ecosystems in Monitoring ecological Attributes and Conservation of Biodiversity: A review 317 Jyoti K. Sharma 19 effects of Harvesting Plans on tree species Diversity: An evaluation of two Logged Forest Compartments 341 Saiful Islam 20 Diversity of Angiospermic Flora of west Bengal, India 350 Sunit Mitra and Sobhan K. Mukherjee 21 status of Invasive Plants in tamil nadu, India: their Impact and significance 371 S.M. Sundarapandian and K. Subashree 22 Patterns of Plant endemism and Forest regeneration Processes in northern western Ghats 388 Pundarikakshudu Tetali and Sujata Tetali vi Contents 23 DnA Barcoding as a Molecular tool for the Assessment of Plant Biodiversity 419 Subrata Trivedi, Abid Ali Ansari, Hasibur Rehman, Shalini Saggu, Zahid Khorshid Abbas and Sankar K. Ghosh PArt vIII: PLAnt BIoDIversIty: ConservAtIon 24 onion and related taxa: ecogeographical Distribution and Genetic resources in the Indian subcontinent 429 Anjula Pandey, K. Pradheep and K.S. Negi 25 traditional ecological Knowledge and Plant Biodiversity Conservation in a european transfrontier Landscape 443 José Antonio González, Ana Maria Carvalho and Francisco Amich 26 Cryoconservation Methods for extended storage of Plant Genetic resources 458 Saikat Gantait, Uma Rani Sinniah, Gopal Shukla and Narayan Chandra Sahu 27 Interspecific Chemical Differentiation within the Genus Astragalus (Fabaceae) Based on sequential variability of saponin structures 465 Abir Sarraj-Laabidi and Nabil Semmar 28 Implementing traditional ecological Knowledge in Conservation efforts 525 Meg Trau, Robin Owings and Nishanta Rajakaruna 29 Conserving Forest Biodiversity 536 Petros Ganatsas 30 Invasive Alien weed species: A threat to Plant Biodiversity 564 Disha Jaggi, Mayank Varun, Saurabh Pagare, Niraj Tripathi, Meenal Rathore, Raghwendra Singh and Bhumesh Kumar Index 593 Contents vii Contributors Zahid Khorshid Abbas, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk-71491, Saudi Arabia sulaiman Mohammad Al-Ghanim, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk- 71491, Saudi Arabia volkan Altay, Biology Department, Mustafa Kemal University, I˙skenderun, Hatay, Turkey ernaz Altundag, Biology Department, Duzce University, Duzce, Turkey Fahad Mohammed Alzeibar, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk-71491, Saudi Arabia Francisco Amich, Grupo de Investigación de Recursos Etnobiológicos del Duero-Douro (GRIRED), Department of Botany, Faculty of Biology, University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno, Salamanca, 37007, Spain Abid Ali Ansari, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk-71491, Saudi Arabia. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Lia Ascensão, CESAM – Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Faculdade de Ciências, University of Lisbon, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected] tarique Hassan Askary, Division of Entomology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Main Campus, Shalimar, Srinagar-190025, Jammu and Kashmir, India. E-mail: tariq_askary@ rediffmail.com P. Azmath, Herbal Drug Technological Laboratory, Department of Studies in Microbiology, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore-570006, Karnataka, India syed Baker, Herbal Drug Technological Laboratory, Department of Studies in Microbiology, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore-570006, Karnataka, India shafat Ahmad Banday, Division of Fruit Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Main Campus, Shalimar, Srinagar-190025, Jammu and Kashmir, India Kathryn e. Barry, Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Ana Maria Carvalho, Mountain Research Centre (CIMO), School of Agriculture, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253 Bragança Portugal sumit Chakravarty, Department of Forestry, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari-736165 (Cooch Behar) West Bengal, India. E-mail: [email protected] otília Correia, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Faculdade de Ciências, University of Lisbon, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected] Mudasir Irfan Dar, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, Uttar Pradesh, India Martin t. Dokulil, EX Research Institute Mondsee, Mondseestrasse 9, A-5310 Mondsee, Austria. E-mail: [email protected] Gisela Gaio-oliveira, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, 58, 1250-102 Lisbon, Portugal Petros Ganatsas, Laboratory of Silviculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece. E-mail: [email protected] saikat Gantait, AICRP on Groundnut, Directorate of Research, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal 741235, India. E-mail: [email protected] sankar K. Ghosh, Department of Biotechnology, Assam University, Silchar 788011, Assam, India sarvajeet singh Gill, Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Lab, Centre for Biotechnology, MD University, Rohtak 124001, Haryana, India ix
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