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The present book "COMPENDIUM OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS" is a well digitized documented record in the scientific manner showing its utility in multifold directions as Diversity and uses etc on varied Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.The book is aimed for exploring the diversity of one hundred and ninety-one Indian Medicinal and Aromatic plants collected from different parts of the Chhattisgarh state in central India and introduced in Herbal Garden aimed for their propagation as well as for Ex-situ conservation purpose. The Author is a Commission member of IUCN (Int. Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) - SSC (Species Survival Commission) - Medicinal Plants Specialist Group (MPSG).The current Book will perform its significant applicability among the plant conservation biologists, gardeners, students, researchers and all the peoples interested in the field of Medicinal and Aromatic plants. Present book includes MAPs of varied sources and will be significantly beneficial among the peoples to creating interest on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.I am sure that present book will be a source of Botanical and Ethno-medicinal information of the documented MAPs.

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Dr.Devendra Kumar Patel, Assistant Professor-Rural Technology Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya(A Central University) Bilaspur,Chattisgarh, India is working on Ex-situ conservation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants has developed Herbal Garden for the same purpose. His area of research is Plant diversity,Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Conservation.

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