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Monograph on Brachystelma and Ceropegia in India
Authors: Pullaiah Thammineni, Karuppuswamy Subbiah, Sri Rama Murthy Kondragunta
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Tamil Nadu; Northern Western Ghats; μM BA; Urinary Bladder Stone; Hortus Malabaricus; Depressed Globose; Corolla Tube; MS Medium; Central National Herbarium; Half Strength MS Medium; IUCN Category; Corolla Lobes; Kew Bull; Nodal Explants; Outer Corona; Micropropagated Plantlets; Floral Scent; Umbellate Cyme; Somatic Embryos; Callus Induction; Apex Acuminate; Shoot Multiplication; Pune District; Maximum Shoot Length; Ratnagiri District
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1. Introduction 2. Brachystelma Taxonomy 3. Traditional Uses, Pharmacognostic, Phytochemical, Pharmacological, and In Vitro Propagation Studies in Brachystelma Species 4. Ceropegia Taxonomy 5. Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology of Ceropegia Species 6. Propagation and In Vitro Propagation of Ceropegia Species 7. Molecular Taxonomy of Indian Brachystelma and Ceropegia 8. Pollination Biology of Ceropegia and Brachystelma Species 9. Threats and Conservation of Brachystelma and Ceropegia in India 10. Contributors for the Taxonomy of Indian Brachystelma and Ceropegia
T. Pullaiah, PhD, is a former Professor at the Department of Botany at SriKrishnadevaraya University in Andhra Pradesh, India, where he has taught for more than 35 years. He has held several positions at the university, including Dean, Faculty of Biosciences, Head of the Department of Botany, Head of the Department of Biotechnology, and Member of Academic Senate. He was President of Indian Botanical Society (2014), President of theIndian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (2013) and Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences. He was awarded the Panchanan Maheshwari Gold Medal, the Dr. G. Panigrahi Memorial Lecture award of the Indian Botanical Society and Prof. Y.D. Tyagi Gold Medal of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy, and a Best Teacher Award from Governmentof Andhra Pradesh. Under his guidance 54 students obtained their doctoral degrees. He has authored 51 books, edited 18 books, and published over 330 research papers, including reviews and book chapters. His books include Ethnobotany of India (5 volumes published by Apple AcademicPress), Flora of Andhra Pradesh (5 volumes), Flora of Eastern Ghats (4 volumes), Flora of Telangana (3 volumes), Encyclopaedia of World MedicinalPlants (5 volumes, 2nd edition), and Encyclopaedia of Herbal Antioxidants (3 volumes). He was also a member of Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Professor Pullaiah received his PhD from Andhra University, India, attended Moscow StateUniversity, Russia, and worked as Post Doctoral Fellow during 1976–78.
Dr. Karuppusamy obtained his M.Sc. degree from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai and Ph.D. degree from Gandhigram Rural Institute, Deemed University, Tamil Nadu. Later on he worked as Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Biotechnology, and Research Associate in the Department of Botany, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur. He ha