Practical

Paper Code: 
BOT 423B
Credits: 
9
Objective: 
  1. Field visit to local tribal area and documentation of data regarding the life style of the tribal folklore.
  2. Food crops; Morphology, Anatomy and microbiological tests for stored food materials in wheat, rice, maize, chickpea, potato, sweet potato, and sugurcane.
  3. Fodder crops; study of any five important crops of the locality.
  4. Study of any three crops used for fencing.
  5. Study of ornamental plants used by tribals for decoration and adornment.
  6. Prepare a water extract of dyes such as turmeric, indigo, Butea monosperma, Lawsonia inermis and perform tests to understand their chemical nature.
  7. Prepare a list of 10 most important sources of timber trees in your locality. Give their local names, scientific names and families to which they belong. Mention their properties.
  8. Prepare a list of important plants used as intoxicants and masticatories.
  9. Pharmacognosy of following medicinal plants- Aloe, Baccopa, Barleria, Bombax, Calotropis, Catharanthes, Chlorophyton, Cissus, Commiphora, Convolvulus, Datura, Jatropha, Ocimum, Phyllanthes, Plumbago, Ricinus, Sentella, Terminalia, Thespesia, Thevitia, Tinospora, Tribullus, Tylophora and Withania.
  10. Plantation of important economical and medicinal plants.
  11. In Vitro propagation of any one endangered plant of Rajasthan.
  12. The students should be taken to one of the following-
    1. A protected area. (biosphere reserve, national park)
    2. NBPGR New Delhi, ICAR, CAZRI, BSI, DBT
    3. A CSIR laboratory doing research on plants and their utilization and conservation.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019
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