Soil is not a pile of dirt but is treasure house of earthy material and home of many micro-organisms as it was rightly said that "we think that we are standing on the earth but reality is that we are standing on the roof of another world". Rhizospheric region of the soil is one of the important rooms where plant, soil and microbes interact. However, these interactions are of many types but among these, mutulisitic interactions are of great importance. Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses are one of the mutualistic relationships among the plant, soil and other microbes. In this book we have tried...

Ethnobotany is the study of how and for what reasons people use plants. Usage usually relates to people s conceptualization of the importance of plants, medicinally and otherwise, and their experience of plants occurring in their local environment. The meaning of the term ethnobotany changed from the study of native uses of plants to a more scientific.Ethnobotany maintains a multidisciplinary character: botanically, plants and plant uses are the focus, although ecological patterns, plant dispersals, resources utilization and horticultural and agricultural patterns have become popular avenues...