Book Reviews

Abstract

Plant Biology teaching programmes in most of the universities, both technical and traditional ones, include a course in “economic botany”. But it largely includes only crops, trees, some medicinal herbs and shrubs. Pitifully, these courses rarely include the economic wealth of fungi, algae or other important microflora and plants that are of rich therapeutic and economic value. An important reason for this ignorance and/or negligence, among others, is the lack of good and affordable text books and reference books providing adequate coverage to these organisms at a level suitable for undergraduate, graduate and post graduate students.