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Block II:
Medicinal and aromatic crops
Unit I:
Biodiversity: Biodiversity, issues and goals, centres of origin of
medicinal and aromatic crops, primary and secondary centres of genetic
diversity.
Unit II:
Germplasm collection and quarantine: Exploration and germplasm
collection, planning and logistics, exchange of germplasm, plant
quarantine principles, regulations plant quarantine systems in India.
Components of germplasm evaluation, descriptor lists. Conservation
of genetics resources, Concept of base and active collections, long and
short term storage of Plantation and spice crops, gene bank
management.
Unit III:
Documentation and cataloguing: Recent approaches and role of
biotechnology in PGR conservation documentation and data base
management, cataloguing gene bank information. Molecular markers
in characterisation of plant genetic resources. GIS in biodiversity
mapping.

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Unit IV:
National and international issues: Genetic resources management of
Plantation and Spice crops in India and in International perspective.
Utilization and achievements in major crops. Concepts of rarity, threat,
endangerment and extinction in major plantation and spice crops. Bio
diversity concerns, national and international regulations, conservation
networks. Good collection practices, domestication, PPV and FRA and
DUS testing. Geographical indication, Biodiversity act and biodiversity
legislations.
VIII. Practical
• Collection and identification of different plantation, spice, medicinal and aromatic
plants from natural sources;
• Preparation of herbarium;
• Botanical and phyto-chemical grouping of PSMAs;
• Classification of PSMAs based on plant parts used;
• Documentation of germplasm;
• Maintenance of passport data and other records;
• Field explorations;
• Detection of adulterants and substitutes in PSMAs;
• Ethno botanical studies in tribal areas;
• Planning and layout of herbal gardens;
• Exposure visits to herbaria, herbal gardens and important organisations engaged
in collection and utilization of PSMAs.