Proceedings of First Indo-US Workshop on Green Chemistry’ supported by International Chapter on Green Chemistry of American Chemical Society, which highlights the state-of-the-art and future prospects of green chemistry research, may contribute towards serving the objective of sustainable development by eliminating the production and use of hazardous chemicals and providing new and efficient ways for environmentally benign management of chemicals. It will also encourage the chemists for facilitating further promotion of ‘Green Chemistry’ which will benefit all mankind

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It is a 5-volume publication containing information on the medicinal plants of India, with a thrust on their therapeutic uses. The write-up on each plant includes its vernacular name, occurrence and distribution, botanical description, important chemical constituents of the plant extract, besides its use in medicine. A distinctive feature of the book is inclusion of authentic Sanskrit Sloka, in Devanagari and Roman scripts. A Sloka documents the therapeutic uses of the related plant. These volumes are profusely illustrated in colours/black & white pictures of the related plant for its proper identification.

Editor: Prof. Asima Chatterjee & Dr S.C. Pakrashi

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This 6-volume publication provides information on Indian medicinal plants with a thrust on chemical aspects. It contains information on isolation of compounds from plants and describes their biological activities, which make the series a highly useful collection. The first volume describes about 1200 plants covering the period 1960-1969; vol. 2 covers the period 1970-79 and describes 1084 plants; vol. 3 covers the period 1980-89 and vol. 4 covers the period 1990 onwards.

Authors: R.P. Rastogi & B.N. Mehrotra

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It provides information on economic plants of India and may be regarded birds eye view of ‘Wealth of India’ containing information on about 5000 plants species. The plants are mentioned in alphabetical orders of their botanical names along with their families. Names in Indian languages, common English names and regional and trade names make it a wonderful collection.

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This book describes various types of wastelands, their characteristics, causes importance of green cover, role of nitrogen-fixing plants, energy crops and the related issues. Out of the 1003 species dealt with, the major ones are described in alphabetical order with emphasis on reclamation. Classified lists of plants are provided according to their suitability for different types of wastelands and also according to their economic value.

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