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D. Aromatic plants
: 
Bursera
sp., 
Commiphora wightii
, 
Ocimum kilimandjaricum,
Melaleuca, Michaelia champaka
, 
Rosa damascena, Cananga odorata, 
marjoram,
chamomile

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VII. Practical
• Botanical characteristics of species and varieties of various underexploited
plantation, spice, medicinal and aromatic plants;
• Economic parts and their products;
• Propagation and nursery techniques;
• Harvesting and primary processing of under utilised PSMAs;
• Exposure visits to institutes, botanical gardens, herbal gardens and distillation
units.
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:
• be thorough with the importance and commercial production technology of
underutilized and lesser known plantation, spice, medicinal and aromatic plants.
• be able to startunderutilized and lesser known plantation, spice, medicinal and
aromatic plants-based enterprises
X. Suggested Reading
Atal CK and Kapur BM. 
Cultivation and Utilization of Aromatic plants
. R.R.L. Jammu
Barche Swati. 2016. 
Production technology of spices, aromatic, medicinal and plantation crops
.
New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi
Chadha KL and Gupta R. 1995. 
Advance in Horticulture. 
Vol. XI. 
Medicinal and AromaticPlants.
Malhotra Publ. House.
CSIR, 
The Wealth of India
. Volume A-Z CSIR
Farooqui AA, Khan MM and Sreeramu BS. 1997. 
Cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Crops
in India. 
Naya Prokash.
Jain SK. 1979. 
Medicinal Plants. 
National Book Trust.
Kurian A and Asha Sankar M. 2007. 
Medicinal Plants. 
Horticulture Science Series, New India
Publ. Agency.
Nybe EV, Mini Raj N and Peter KV. 2007. 
Spices
. Horticulture Science Series, New India Publ.
Agency.
Peter KV. 
Under exploited and underutilized Horticulture crops
. Volume I-IV. New India
Publication Agency.
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
Ponnuswami 
et al
. 2018. 
Medicinal Herbs and Herbal Cure
. Narendra Publishing House, New
Delhi
Sharangi AB and Datta S. 2015. 
Value Addition of Horticultural crops: Recent trends and
Future directions
. SPRINGER; ISBN: 978-81-322-2261-3.
Sharangi AB, Bhutia PH, Chandani Raj A and Sreenivas M. 2018. 
Underexploited spice crops:
Present status, agrotechnology and future research directions.
Apple Academic Press (Taylor
and Francis Group), Waretown, NJ, USA, p.326.
Sivarajan VV and Balachandran I. 1994. 
Ayurvedic Drugs and their Plant Sources.
Oxford and
IBH.

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