Current status and potential prospects of medicinal plant sector in trans-Himalayan Ladakh

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Volumn 5, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2929-2940

  Phani Kumar, G ^a   Kumar, Raj ^a   Chaurasia, O P ^a   Singh, Shashi Bala ^a  

^a Ministry of Defence   (India)

Author keywords

Amchi system; Conservation biology; Ladakh; Medicinal plants; Trans himalayas

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CHINA; CLIMATE; DOCUMENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOVERNMENT; HERBAL MEDICINE; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NATIVE SPECIES; REVIEW; SCIENTIST; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VEGETATION;

EID: 79961139556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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