Marsdenia volubilis Cooke is a medicinal member of the family Asclepiadaceae, which is cosmopolitan in distribution. Traditionally, leaves are used as an application to boils and abscesses. The plant is also useful in psoriasis, scabies. It contains dregein alkaloids, the major bioactive principles which are in demand as natural drugs by the persons suffering from tumor. The plant is being used very specifically in the indigenous systems of medicine such as Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani. The amount of active principles depends on total biomass, which further depends on agrotechniques and...

For sustainable agriculture, conventional practices which involve heavy fertilizer input are undesirable owing to their long lasting impact on the soil quality. Alternatively to ensure increased productivity is, input of vermicompost along with bioinoculants as biofertilisers. In this endeavour, arbuscular mycorrhiza is well established as potential stimulator of plant secondary metabolism attracts considerable attentions and research efforts. Andrographis paniculata is an annual herb belonging to the family Acanthaceae that produces commercial metabolite andrographolide used in cancer...