Rashtriya Krishi (English)

Pratibha Choudhary ¹, Richa Singh ², Pooja Goswami ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi VishwaVidyalaya, Jabalpur (M.P.), IN
2 College of Agriculture (J.N.K.V.V.), Balaghat (M.P.), IN

Abstract

Rauvolfia serpentina (L.) is a woody perennial shrub, commonly known as ‘Sarpgandha’ is an endangered medicinal plant found in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam. It is a good source of many (>50) important alkaloids of medicinal value. Its natural source is now almost exhausted due to indiscriminate recurrent harvest and other anthorpogenic pressure and activities.

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