Shveta Saroop and Veenu Kaul
Department of Botany, University of Jammu, Jammu 180006
Email: shvetasaroop@gmail.com
Abstracts: Advent of modern agriculture system, growing energy demands, area development projects, increasing population and many more related activities has led to rapid decline in many plant resources and ultimately erosion of biodiversity from its unique ecosystem. Thus, the biodiversity conservation bodies and legal strategies framed by them are making every effort to conserve plants for the very survival and existence of life on the earth. Tremendous awareness in the field of biodiversity conservation has unravelled the untapped potential of certain unpopular plants like weeds. These undesired plants, if utilized carefully and judiciously, can prove fruitful in decelerating the pressure on the precious plant resources which we are losing due to increasing demands for their products.
Keywords: Agriculture, Cleome viscosa, Cleomaceae
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