Pteridology in the New Millennium NBRI Golden Jubilee Volume

The National Botanical Research Institute came into being as the 13th among a chain of National Laboratories established during April, 1953 under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research by the Govt. of India for advanced research in fields of specialisation which have a direct bearing on s...

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Other Authors: Chandra, S. (Editor), Srivastava, M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 12 Valuable and noteworthy Chinese fern specimens preserved at the herbarium of Singapore Botanic Gardens (SING)
  • 13 Pteridophytic flora of Northern part of Bihar (India) adjacent to Indo-Nepal border
  • Morphology, Anatomy and Cytology
  • 14 Studies on the Chinese Selaginellaceae-V: Observations on the forliar epidermis of Selaginella Beauv. from Hainan Island in China
  • 15 Morphological observations on the co-occurring geophytes Isoetes duriei Bory (Lycophyta, Isoetaceae) and Romulea columnae Sebast. et Mauri (Anthophyta, Iridaceae)
  • 16 Cytomorphological studies on some Indian population of Isoëtes coromandelina L. f.
  • 17 Studies on the morpho-taxonomy of Indian vittarioid ferns
  • 18 Morphological and cytological variations of Japanese Dryopteris varia group (Dryopteridceae)
  • Ecology and Floristics
  • 19 Environmentally related demography: field studies on Isoëtes lacustrisL. (Lycophyta, Isoëtaceae) in Europe
  • 28 Tolerance of heavy metals in vascular plants: Arsenic hyperaccumulation by Chinese brake fern (Pteris vittata L.)
  • 29 Economically viable pteridophytes of India
  • Reproductive Biology / Tissue Culture
  • 30 Gametophyte morphology and breeding systems in ferns
  • 31 Some aspects of reproductive biology of the gametophyte generation of homosporous ferns
  • 32 Mating systems of Cyatheaceae native to Taiwan
  • 33 Plantlet production of the Philippine Giant Staghorn Fern [Platycerium grande (Fee) C. Presl] through spore culture
  • 34 Micropropagation and conservation of rare and endangered ferns of the Southern Western Ghats through in vitro culture
  • Paleobotany
  • 35 Heterosporous water ferns from the late Cretaceous to Neogene periods of India
  • 20 The vertical distributions of live and dead fern spores in the soil of a semi-natural woodland in Southeast Scotland and their implications for spore movement in the formation of soil spore banks
  • 21 Species richness of pteridophytes in natural versus man-made lowland forest in Malaysia and Singapore
  • 22 The taxonomy and ecology of the pteridophytes of Mt. Iraya and vicinity, Batan Island, Batanes Province, Northern Philippines
  • 23 Some aspects of the fern flora (Filicopsida) of the Netherlands
  • 24 Demographic studies of homosporous fern populations in South Siberia
  • 25 Eco-morphological characteristics of Pyrrosia petiolosa (Christ et Baroni) Ching (Polypodiaceae) in the primorye territory, in far-Eastern Russia
  • 26 Herbivory on three tropical fern species of a Mexican cloud forest
  • 27 Animal interaction with pteridophytes with emphasis on Indian records
  • Phytoremediation / Economic Utility
  • General Papers
  • 1 Professor Bala Krishnan Nayar: A biographical sketch
  • 2 The Pteridology Laboratory, N.B.R.I., Lucknow (India)
  • Systematics
  • 3 Taxonomy and biogeography of Indian pteridophytes
  • 4 Phylogenetics, biogeograpgy and classification of the woodwardioid ferns (Blechnaceae)
  • 5 Review of the family Woodsiaceae (Diels) Herter of Eurasia
  • 6 An Introduction to the pteridophytes of Hainan Island, South China
  • 7 Notes on new or interesting Asplenium species from Western Asia, including comments on Ching & Wu (1985), and Fraser-Jenkins (1992) Reliquiae Reichsteinianae 1
  • 8 Diversity and distribution patterns of Aspleniaceae in Brazil
  • 9 Two new species of Cyathea from North-Eastern India
  • 10 Distributional study of the genus Cyrtomium C. Presl (Dryopteridaceae)
  • 11 Taxonomic studies on the family Sinopteridaceae and the genus Ctenitopsis (Tectariaceae) from Hainan Island, China