Commercial Ornamental Crops Traditional and Loose Flowers

by R L Misra, Sanyat Misra

ISBN: 9789359197821
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2025
Price : Rs. 22095.00
Biblio : xviii+612p., tabls., figs., 12 col., ind 25 cm

Author Profile

Dr. R. L. Misra served the cause of floricultural science for more than 16 years in temperate regions of Himachal Pradesh and about 24 years in sub-tropical conditions of New Delhi. After his joining at IARI, New Delhi in 1984, he was associated with all the 7-8 floricultural courses being offered to the M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, apart from looking his mandated research programmes. Out of his whole official career, as a chairman, he guided 16 Ph.D. and 6 M.Sc. students apart from being members of the advisory committees of many more students, and developed 30 gladiolus varieties which have high demand countrywide. Now all these students are serving various institutions as Professors and Associate Professors and in other departments holding a very high position. As a teacher as well as a researcher, his contribution is well known as he has in all some 500 publications including 6 books. He is the founder member of Indian Society of Ornamental Horticulture. From 1993 to 2004 he edited its regular publication Journal of Ornamental Horticulture. He is Fellow of Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding since 80's, and Indian Society of Ornamental Horticulture since 2010. For his most significant contribution in the field of floriculture, he was honoured with 'Gold Medal' of Horticultural Society of India in 2013. He is life member in 11 professional societies. Joined as a regular Project Coordinator of All India Coordinated Research Project on Floriculture of ICAR at Division of Floriculture and Landscaping, IARI, New Delhi where he coordinated some 21 centres across 17 states. He served IARI for 40 years and retired as Project Coordinator cum Principal Scientist in May 2008. Only because of his highly significant contributions in the field of teaching and research, after his retirement he was inducted as adjunct Faculty of IARI in Floriculture. Dr. Sanyat Misra is a graduate from UAS, Bangalore; postgraduate from GBP University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar; and Ph.D. from Dr. YSP University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan (H.P.), and then after completing his Ph.D. degree served for 3 years as Research Associate at NBPGR, New Delhi and Shimla, and in 2004 joined as regular Scientist cum Assistant Professor (Floriculture) in the Department of Horticulture, Birsa Agricultural University, Kanke, Ranchi-834006 (Jharkhand). So far he has guided Ten M.Sc. students for their thesis work. Presently he is Head, Department of Horticulture, BAU, Ranchi. He is a very active member of the horticulture faculty looking after research, teaching and extension. He has to his credit about 45 publications, two bulletins and Five books of international repute.

About The Book

This book deals with 43 chapters. Part I deals with 29 most commonly cultivated ornamental crops such as Amaranthus, Annual Chrysanthemum, Asclepias & Calotropis, Barlelia, Celosia argentea, Crossandra, Dahlia, Dianthus, Eranthemum, Ervatamia divaricata, Gaillardia, Gomphrena, Helianthus, Hibiscus, Hymenocallis, Ixora, Jasminum, Lawsonia inermis, Nelumbo, Nerium, Nyctanthes arbortristis, Nymphaea, Paeonia, Pandanus, Polianathes tuberosa, Rosa, Rudbeckia, Tagetes and Thevetia. Each crop is described with its nomenclature, origin, brief history & importance; botany; classification, species and varieties; methods of propagation; cultural practices; manipulation of growth and flowering; postharvest management; and insect-pests, diseases & physiological disorders in a very lucid term. Part II contains 14 chapters on general aspects necessary either for flower growing cum improvement or for value addition cum processing of certain plant-based products. Each crop and aspect is supported with pertinent global works. This is the first book of its kind written worldwide which deals exclusively with Traditional and Loose Flowers as is most prevalent in the Asian countries. However, in western countries though they prioritize the cut flower crops but for garden decoration, bedding, borders, container planting, hedges, rock gardens and pools, and for greenhouse & conservatory plantings they depend largely on such plants. Moreover, ICAR (New Delhi) has also devised curricula for graduate and postgraduate students of floriculture & landscaping, that is why this book has been prepared to act as a ready reckoner not only to the students but also to the teachers, professors and scientists engaged in floricultural activities. This will also prove a comprehensive guide to the horticultural development officers and flower growers worldwide.

Table of Contents

Foreword v Preface vii List of Contributors xiii Part I: Crops 1. Amaranthus 3 Ramesh Kumar, Sanyat Misra, Ajit Kumar, Pragya Ranjan and R.L. Misra 2. Annual Chrysanthemum 7 K.V. Prasad and R.L. Misra 3. Asclepias & Calotropis 15 R.L. Misra, B.K.Banerji, Sanyat Misra, Atul Batra and A.K.Dwivedi 4. Barleria 23 M. Ganga, K. Padmadevi, V. Jegadeeswari, P. Mekala and Sanyat Misra 5. Celosia argentea 29 S.P.S. Raghava, J.K. Ranjan, Pragya Ranjan, Sanyat Misra and R.L. Misra 6. Crossandra 35 M. Ganga, Sanyat Misra, R.L. Misra, P. Mekala, V. Jegadeeswari and K. Padmadevi 7. Dahlia 45 Sanyat Misra, R.L. Misra, B.K.Banerji, Atul Batra and A.K.Dwivedi 8. Dianthus 71 R.L. Misra and Sanyat Misra 9. Eranthemum 101 B. Sathyanarayana Reddy, S.Y. Chandrashekar and S.K. Nataraj 10. Ervatamia divaricata 105 B.K.Banerji, A.K.Dwivedi, Atul Batra and Sanyat Misra Contents x 11. Gaillardia 111 Ajit Kumar, Manju Rana, Manish Kapoor, Sanyat Misra, Sanjeev Kumar Sharma and Satish Chand 12. Gomphrena 123 Ajit Kumar, Sanyat Misra, Manish Kapoor, Ranjan Srivastava, Sanjeev Kumar Sharma and Manju Rana 13. Helianthus 131 Ajit Kumar, Jyoti Bajeli, R.L. Misra, Manish Kapoor, Himanshu Trivedi, V.K. Rao and Sanyat Misra 14. Hibiscus 145 Jayoti Majumder, Tarak Nath Saha, Sanyat Misra and R.L. Misra 15. Hymenocallis 163 Alka Singh and Sanyat Misra 16. Ixora 171 Jayoti Mazumder, Sellam Perinban and R.L. Misra 17. Jasminum 181 Sanyat Misra*, R.L. Misra, M. Ganga, P. Mekala, V. Jegadeeswari and K. Padmadevi 18. Lawsonia inermis 199 Sanyat Misra and R.K. Dubey 19. Nelumbo (Nelumbium) 203 Sanyat Misra and R.L. Misra 20. Nerium 209 B.K.Banerji, R.L. Misra, Atul Batra and Sanyat Misra 21. Nyctanthes arbor-tristis 215 Jayoti Majumder, Pragya Ranjan, Babita Singh, R.L. Misra and Sanyat Misra 22. Nymphaea 223 R.L. Misra, M.K. Singh and Sanyat Misra 23. Paeonia 235 Jayoti Majumder, T.N. Saha, P. Sellam, Sanyat Misra and R.L. Misra 24. Pandanus 251 Sashikala Beura and P.N. Jagadev 25. Polianthes tuberosa 259 Sanyat Misra and R.L. Misra 26. Rosa 273 R.L. Misra and Sanyat Misra 27. Rudbeckia 287 Jayoti Majumder, Sellam Perinban, Sanyat Misra and R.L. Misra 28. Tagetes 295 Ajit Kumar, Manish Kapoor, Manju Rana, Sanyat Misra, R.L. Misra and V.K. Rao 29. Thevetia 311 R.L. Misra, Atul Batra, B.K.Banerji, A.K.Dwivedi and Sanyat Misra xi Part II: General Aspects 30. Biotechnological Interventions in Floriculture 319 Pushpalatha G. 31. Genetically-Engineered Ornamentals 341 Tanya Thakur and H.S. Grewal 32. Nutraceutical Pigments from Ornamental Crops (Scope, Potential and in vitro Expression) 353 K.V. Prasad, T. Janakiram, M.R. Legha, Surendra Kumar, B.S. Hada and Prativa Lakhotia 33. Bio-colours from Ornamentals 371 Bhavya Bhargava1, Y. C. Gupta and Priyanka Sharma 34. Edible Flowers 399 Sellam Perinban, Jayoti Majumder and Sanyat Misra 35. Nutrition Management in Flower Crops 409 T. Janakiram, Namita, Sapna Panwar and Ritu Jain 36. Flower Seed Production 429 Manish Kapoor, Ajit Kumar, Ranjan Srivastava,Sanyat Misra,Sunder Pal, Jyoti Bajeli and Mamta Bohra 37. Light in Regulating Growth and Flowering 465 Tanya Thakur, H.S. Grewal, Sanyat Misra and R.L. Misra 38. Diseases of Ornamentals and Their Management 477 Manas Kumar Bag, Anirban Roy*, Pragya Ranjan, R.L. Misra and Sanyat Misra 39. Insect-Pests of Ornamentals and Their Management 505 Sanyat Misra, R.L. Misra, Ajit Kumar, Pragya Ranjan 40. Post Harvest Management of Loose, Cut flowers and Cut Foliage 535 Kushal Singh, Pardeep Kaur, R. K. Dubey and Ranjit Singh 41. Flower Drying 561 R.L. Misra 42. Flower Arranging and Designing 569 Alka Singh 43. Mechanization of Microbial Composting Technology for Commercial Production to 581 Address Depleting Soil Health Indra Mani, Livleen Shukla and Satish Lande Colour Plates I-XVI Glossary 591 Index 605