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Conference Wide Kottapalli, Seshagirirao [1]. Biodiversity, Taxonomy and Economic Botany of Solanaceae of Eastern Ghats, India. THE Eastern Ghats of India, hilly terrain running almost parallel to Coramandel Coast (east coast) of India located between 78o-86o E longitude 10o-20o N latitude, and extended over a length of 1750 Km between the rivers Mahanadi and Vaigai. Geographically the tors spread over three states of India, namely Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, and cover an area of about 75,000 square kilometers. The Eastern Ghats is a reservoir of rich floristic diversity consisting of about 3000 plant species with as many as 454 (15%) endemics. The region serve as good examples of areas that hold rich agro-horticultural, economic crop diversity. There about 100 species of wild relatives of crops existing in this region. The Solanaceae has great importance for food and medicinal value. In Eastern Ghats, the Solanaceae is distributed with 19 genera with about 75 species and Solanum genus is the most prominent with 35 species. The Solanaceae taxa have been diversified in this region since long time and been using as food and medicines by the local people. The present paper will discuss the biodiversity, taxonomy and economic botany of the Solanaceae taxa in the Eastern Ghats.
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1 - University of Hyderabad, Department of Plant Sciences, Central University P.O., Hyderabad - 500 046, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, 500 046, India
Keywords:
Biodiversity
taxonomy
Economic Botany
Eastern Ghats of India.
Session: Poster-93
Location: Ballroom CD/Monona Terrace
Date: Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM
Abstract ID:129 |
