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nursery production, propagation through cuttings, layering, grafting and budding.

UNIT 3: Ethnobotany and Folk medicines (15 Hours)
Definition; Ethnobotany in India: Methods to study ethnobotany; Applications of Ethnobotany:
National interacts, Palaeo-ethnobotany. Folk medicines of ethnobotany, ethnomedicine,
ethnoecology, ethnic communities of India. Application of natural products to certain diseases-
Jaundice, cardiac, infertility, diabetics, Blood pressure and skin diseases.

PRACTICAL (30 Hours)

To visit botanical garden/herbal garden/medicinal plant repositories for the identification of ethno-
medicinal plants.
1. Field visit to different tribal regions to gain ethno botanical knowledge and the inter-
relation between plant and people
2. Collection and preparation of herbarium specimen of medicinal and aromatic plants
3. Identification of medicinal and aromatic plants
4. Identification and collection of locally used ethnobotanicals.
5. To study harvesting, drying, grading, storage, processing, and value addition techniques
for medicinal and aromatic plants.
6. To study the propagation and nursery techniques of medicinal and aromatic plants.

SUGGESTED READINGS:

1. Trivedi PC, 2006. Medicinal Plants: Ethnobotanical Approach, Agrobios, India.
nd
2. Purohit and Vyas, 2008. Medicinal Plant Cultivation: A Scientific Approach, 2 edition.
Agrobios, India

Bot.323 Reproductive Biology 3+1

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

The primary objective of this course is:
 To learn about their general development in angiosperms.
 Emphasis will be given at their embryological studies.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

This course will enable the students to understand:
 About the floral feature of Angiosperm.
 Learn about the reproductive tissues of Angiosperms
Understanding the importance of pollination and fertilization.

THEORY (45 Hours)

UNIT I: Structural Organization of Flower (9 Hours)

Flower: A modified shoot, structure and varieties of flower, function,
UNIT II: Gametophyte Development (9 Hours)

Microsporangium and megasporangium development, the male and female gametophytes
development, Structure, and types of ovules; Types of embryo sacs.

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