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Evaluation of a Medicinal Plant – Phyllanthus Amarus and Its Imporvement at the Genetic Level

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Title Evaluation of a Medicinal Plant – Phyllanthus Amarus and Its Imporvement at the Genetic Level
 
Creator Banerjee, Anindita
 
Subject Drug Development/Diagnostics & Biotechnology
 
Description The spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) is a large family of flowering plants with 300
genera and 7500 species. This family mainly grows in the tropics. The name of the family
Euphorbiaceae comes from Euphorbus, physician to Juba, King of Mauritania
(Scartezzini and Speroni, 2000). Most members are herb, but some especially in tropics,
are also shrubs or trees. Some are succulent in nature and resemble cacti. It is marked by
its important members as manioc, the castor bean, para rubber tree, amlaki, etc.
Phyllanthus is an important genus of this family first described by Linnaeus
(phyllon = leaf, anthos = flower) and contains around 550 to 750 species, which is
divided into 10 to 11 subgenera (Calixto et al., 1998). Several species of Phyllanthus
grows throughout the world with the Indian gooseberry known as amla being very
famous. Other species of Phyllanthus includes P. acidus, P. acuminatus, P. mirabilis, P.
urinaria growing in other parts of world. Emblica officinalis (Phyllanthus emblica) is an
important constituent of ayurvedic herbal rasayana formula, triphala with potential anticancer
properties. P. amarus is an important species of this genus and has been assigned
common names in different languages in India as bhuiamla and sadahazurmani in
Bengali, bhuiavala in Marathi, bhonyaanmali in Gujrati, bhuianvalah in Hindi, etc. since
it bears close resemblance to amla (The Wealth of India, 2003). In Spain the plants of
family P. niruri and P. amarus are known by the name of chanca piedra, which means
stonebreaker.
 
Date 2010
 
Type Thesis
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/1251/1/Anindita_Thesis__pdf.pdf
Banerjee, Anindita (2010) Evaluation of a Medicinal Plant – Phyllanthus Amarus and Its Imporvement at the Genetic Level. PhD thesis, Jadavpur University.
 
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