Cultivation and Propagation of Medicinal Plants

Conventional (sexual and vegetative) - Sexual propagation - Seed viability - Seed
dormancy, types, methods of overcoming - Vegetative propagation - Grafting - Layering
- Vegetative propagation, advantages and disadvantages of vegetative propagation.

Biotechnological methods of plant propagation - Micropropagation - Somatic
embryogenesis and somoclonal variation - Standardization of cultivation protocols of
selected medicinal plants; in vitro production of secondary metabolites.
 

Polyhouse technology - Selection of site and type of polyhouse, Construction, additional
facilities in polyhouses maintaining temperature and humidity - Irrigation - Soil
management, Important diseases of medicinal plants and their management.

Alternative method of secondary metabolite production - Organ culture, Cell culture,
Biotransformations (Microbial and Plant cells) - Scale up - Enhancement of product
formation by elicitation - Permeabilization of plant cells for product release.
 

Cultivation of medicinal plans - Amla (Phyllanthus emblica), Senna (Cassia
aungustifolia), Sadavari (Asparagus racemosus), Safed musli (Chlorophytum borivilianum), Sarpagandha (Rauwolfia serpentina), Aloe (Aloe vera) and Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), Guggal( Commiphora wightii).