Commercial extraction of Picrorhiza kurrooa royle ex benth. in the Western Himalaya

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 201-208

  Uniyal, Anjali ^a   Uniyal, Sanjay Kr ^b   Rawat, Gopal S ^a  

^a WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^b CSIR INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Extraction; India; Kutki; Medicinal plants; Picrorhiza kurrooa; Western Himalaya

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; EXPLOITATION; FUELWOOD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MEDICINAL PLANT; PLANT EXTRACT; POPULATION DECLINE; REGENERATION; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; TREELINE; WILD POPULATION;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

PICRORHIZA KURROOA;

EID: 80052949398     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-10-00125.1     Document Type: Article

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