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Crops
1. Medicinal crops
: Opium poppy, Isabgol, Aswagandha, Senna, Medicinal
coleus
,
Glory Lily, Periwinkle, Sarpagandha, Long Pepper, Stevia, Safed musli,
Plumbago zeylanica
2. Aromatic crops
: Lemongrass, Citronella, Palmarosa, Vetiver, Mint, Patcholi,
Geranium, Ocimum, Rosemary, Lavender, 
Kaempferia galanga
, Eucalyptus
VII. Practical
• Genus, species and cultivar features of various medicinal and aromatic crops;

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Restructured and Revised Syllabi of Post-graduate Programmes
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• Characterization based on descriptors;
• Characterization based on DUS guidelines;
• Study of sex forms and floral biology;
• Study of molecular markers;
• Exposure visits to national institutes including NBPGR.
VIII. Teaching Methods/ Activities
• Lecture
• Assignment (Reading/ Writing)
• Demonstration
• Exposure visits
IX. Learning outcome
After successful completion of this course, the students are expected to have thorough
understanding on the systematics of medicinal and aromatic crops
X. Suggested Reading
Birel Shah and Seth AK. 2005. 
Text book of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry
. CBS Publishers
and distributors, New Delhi.
Charles Burnham. 1993. 
Discussions in Cytogenetics
. Prentice Hall Publications
Diwan AP and Dhakad NK. 1996. 
Genetics and Development
. Anmol Publications Private
Limited, New Delhi.
Farooqi AA, Khan MM and Vasundhara M. 2001. 
Production Technology of Medicinal and
Aromatic Crops. 
Natural Remedies Pvt. Ltd.
Gupta RK. 2010. 
Medicinal and Aromatic plants
. CBS publications
Prajapati ND, Purohit SS, Sharma AK, Kumar T. 2006. 
A Hand book of Medicinal Plants. 
Agro
Bios (India).
Ponnuswami 
et al.
2018. 
Blossom biology of Horticultural crops
. Narendra Publishing House,
New Delhi.
Ponnuswami 
et al
. 2018 
Botany of Horticultural crops
. Narendra Publishing House, New Delhi
Raju R Wadekar. 2015. 
Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry
, Event publishing house
Ranjal Kandall.
 Bioactive compounds and genomic study of medicinal plants
. LAMBERT
Academic Publishing
Sharma G. 2009. 
Systematics of fruit Crops
. New India Publishing House, India.
Skaria P Baby 
et al.
2007. 
Aromatic Plants
. New India Publ. Agency.
Strickberger MW. 2005. 
Genetics 
(III Ed). Prentice Hall, New Delhi, India
Tamarin RH. 1999. 
Principles of Genetics
. Wm. C. Brown Publishers.
Thakur RS, Pauri HS and Hussain A. 1989. 
Major Medicinal Plants of India
. CSIR.