Biotechnology and plant protection in forestry science

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Biotechnology and plant protection in forestry science

editors, S.P. Raychaudhuri, Karl Maramorosch

Science Publishers, c1999

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This text explores biotechnology and plant protection in forestry science. Topics include butternut canker; advances in improvements of medicinal plants; biological control of weeds; and the links between ecologically disturbed forests and human diseases.

Table of Contents

  • Taxol
  • micropropagation and in vitro flowering bamboos
  • phytoplasma diseases of forest and urban trees and shrubs in Canada and east Asia - biology, genome diversity and management
  • the exploitation and utilization of glycyrrhiza
  • prospects of recent biotechnological advances in improvement of medicinal plants
  • biological control of weeds in relation to the maintenance of stable and productive ecosystems
  • mushroom cultivation and their protection in forests
  • study of the extraction of natural pigments from edible forest and agricultural crops
  • some observations on the vegetation damage due to air pollution caused by the 1984 industrial accident in Bhopal
  • biological control of forest pests in Romania
  • pine wilt disease-history, biological and biochemical mechanism of rapid wilting and its control
  • butternut canker - an international concern
  • ecologically disturbed forests linked to new emerging human diseases.

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