A comprehensive study was carried out during 2004- 2005 to elaborate the species diversity of medicinal flora of Changa Valley. The Study revealed that 41 medicinal plants, belonging to 30 families are used for various ailments. Out of which only two species belong to Pteridophytes. Herbs with 27 species were found to be the most used life forms followed by trees with 6 species, shrubs with 5 species and Climbers with 2 species in descending order. These plants resources have great ethanobotanical importance, especially used for curing various ailments through indigenous system of...

Plant cell wall structural proteins (CWPs) contribute to the basal defense against pathogens. Therefore, the prospect of developing disease resistant crop cultivars through genetic manipulation of CWPs is promising. Research presented here utilized a novel CW annotated Arabidopsis gene, the PELPK1 for functional characterization by using bioinformatics and computational analyses, and by applying various reverse genetics techniques, e.g., expression, mutational, and proteomic analyses. Specific techniques used are: (i) construction of several plant transformation vectors such as...