Betelvine (Piper betle L.) is cultivated for its deep green heart shaped leaf for (15–20) million
Indian and 2 billion foreign consumers annually. The crop provides Rs (6 000–7 000) million …

Flowering plants are known to exhibit vast diversity of sexual systems encompassing
bisexual, monoecious and dioecious conditions. Dioecy offers opportunities to explore …

A genetic diversity study of 128 finger millet genotypes collected from various geographical
regions was performed using RAPD markers. The average locus obtained across all …

Unlike in animals, dioecy among flowering plants is a rare phenomenon. The vast majority of
angiosperm species have a bisexual flower that combines male (androecium) and female …

Abstract Pherosphaera fitzgeraldii, the Dwarf Mountain Pine, is a critically endangered
conifer restricted to cliff ledges within waterfall spray zones in the Greater Blue Mountains …

Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and inter simple sequence repeats (ISSR)
markers were used to compare genetic diversity of 17 accessions of Clitoria ternatea …

A number of dioecious species are grown across India and some of those plants play a
crucial role in the agro-based economy of the country. The diagnosis of sex is very difficult in …

Biotechnological approaches like micropropagation, somaclonal variation, in vitro
conservation, synseed technology, protoplast fusion, production of flavour and colouring …

This compendium presents comprehensive information on more than 25 important spice
crops commercially grown in India and traded globally, apart from over 40 spices that have …

The betel (piper betel) is the leaf of a vine belonging to the Piperaceae family which includes
pepper and kava. Betel leaf mostly consumed in Asia, and elsewhere in the world by some …