TRENDS IN FRONTAL AREAS OF PLANT SCIENCE RESEARCH inspire the scientific spirit to promote plant science research in respective arenas. The pace at which we are losing plant genetic resources makes it imperative to take stock of the situation from time to time and develop suitable strategy for conserving genes and gene pools. We hope that the contents will be useful to the post graduate students, researchers, teachers and the scientific community working in related fields. We believe, the book will also add value to the courses like - Ecology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Bioinformatics and Plant Biotechnology.

Biodiversity: Key Pillar for Survival / Exploitation of biodiversity for genetic improvement of banana / Photoperiod-mediated regulation of tuberization in potato / Bamboo Shoots: A potential source of nutraceuticals / A population genetics perspective in plant pathology: A case study of the 2014 late blight pandemic in West Bengal / Orchid germplasm: Its conservation and propagation strategies through in vitro approach / Women and Environment: An integral social bond for ecological and economic security and resilience / Maximum enropy distribution modeling dn habitat suitability of a critically endangered tree Dipterocarpus gracilis Blume in Tripura, Northeast India / Antioxidant, total phenol and some nutritional status of Dioscorea hamiltonii Hook. F. and Dioscorea bulbifera L. Var. sativa (Hook.f.) prain, in Tripura, Northeast India / Andromonoecy in Solanum sisymbriifolium Lamk / Reproductive biology of tropical kudzu, Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth / Organ identity genes and sex expression in Coccinia grandis (L) Voigt / Bamboo resources and population dynamics of two different etho-ecological areas in West District of Tripura / Comparison of ISSR and SSR markers to study the genetic diversity in Curcuma spp. from Tripura / Diversity, Botany and importance of two Mucuna species: M. bracteata DC. and M. interrupta Gagnep. in Tripura / Diversity of fungal endophytes and antibacterial study of some selected endophytes isolated from five plants of Tripura / Antibacterial activity of leaf extracts of Bambusa bambos (L.) Voss. and Bambusa tulda Roxb. of Tripura / Checklist of Mushroom Diversity in West Tripura, North-East India / Effects of pH, carbon and nitrogen sources on mycelial growth of Fusarium sporotrichioides in submerged culture condition / Phylloplane and endophytic fungal diversity in Ananus comosus L. of Sepahijala district of Tripura and antioxidant potential of two isolated endophytes / Antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles synthesized from leaf extract of Paspalum conjugatum P. J. Berguis. / Comparison of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization and diversity of two different rubber plantations of Tripura, Northeast India / Seasonal pattern of Nitrate Reductase and Nitrogenase enzyme activities in Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC. – A folklore species of India / Soil nutrients and plant association analysis under different habitats of a threatened carnivorous plant Drosera burmannii Vahl. in Tripura, India / Studies on Phytolith morphotypes of some Bamboo species of Tripura, North East India / Chemical Constituents of Mussaenda roxburghii and Dillenia pentagyna / In-vitro wound healing activity of Parkia javanica on human keratinocyte (HaCat) cell line.

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