A Text Book According To The New Unified Syllabus Of U P State Universities B.Sc. Third Year Botany

Contents

UNIT - I

1. Centres of Diversity and Origin of Crop Plants ... 3-8
2. Concept of Sustainable Development ... 9-14
3. Domestication and Cultivation of Cereals ... 15-31
4. Domestication and Cultivation of Legumes ... 32–43
5. Domestication and Cultivation of Sugar Producing Plants : 44-49
6. Domestication and Cultivation of Vegetables ... 50-67

UNIT - II

7. Oil Yielding Plants  ... 71-87
8. Spices and Condiments ... 88-108
9. Beverage Plants ... 109-118
10. Fibres ... 119-134
11. Medicinal Plants ... 135-148
12. Wood ... 149-158
13. Energy Plantation : Firewood and Petrocrops ... 159-163

UNIT - III

14. Conservation of Plant Resources ... 167-188
15. Wetlands and Mangroves ... 189-194

UNIT - IV

16. Palynology : An Elementary Idea ... 197-204
17. Biostatistics : An Introduction ... 205-208
18. Collection and Presentation of Data ... 209-222
19. Measures of Central Tendency : Mean, Median and Mode ... 223-238
20. Measures of Dispersion ... 239-248
21. Correlation ... 249-261
22. Chi-Square Test ... 262-274
23. Experimental Designs ... 275-279