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This book Medicinal Plants in Industry contains 1300 objective type Questions on current research in plant medicine - antibiotics anti-cancer drugs ginseng; alcoholic beverages non-alcoholic beverages gums and resins chemicals oils from wild unexploited plants perfumes from plants: spices and condiments tuber crops herbs tooth pastes herbal cigarettes dyes tannins vegetables and fruits. This work will be of great help to start small scale industries. The book will be greatly useful for students preparing for IAS IFS MBBS ARS and for M.Sc students of Economic Botany Ethnobotany and Plants and Human Welfare. The examples cited in the book cover wide range of plants of Industrial use especially in medicine and give answers for exploration of plant products by enthusiastic industrialists. About the Author Dr. Sammbamurty is a Senior Reader in Botany in Sri Venkateswara College teaching various branches of Botany for the past two and half decades to B.Sc. and B.Sc.(H) students. He is a member of several scientific bodies and a Fellow of the Genetics Society of India and a Fellow of The Botanical Society of India. He published 25 research papers in Rice Cytogenetics in different Indian and International Journals. He attended and participated in several Indian and International symposia seminars and congresses. He published jointly with Dr. N.S. Subrahmanyam A Text Book of Economic Botany published by Wiley Eastern (1989). He is an author of A Text Book of Botany Vol. I (1990) consisting of Algae. Fungi and Plant Pathology. Bacteria and Viruses and Vol. II (1998) comprising BryophytesPteridophytes. Gymnosperms and Paleobotany published by Konark Publishers. Dr. N.S. Subramanyam is a Senior Reader in Sri Venkateswara College teaching various disciplines in Botany for the past two decades to B.Sc. And B.Sc.(H) students. He published jointly with Dr. A.V.S.S. Sammbamurty A Text Book of Economic Botany (Wiley Eastern 1989). He also published A Text Book of Modem Taxonomy (Vikas 1997); Manual of Practical Taxonomy (Vikas 1997) and Question Bank in Botany for Medical Entrance Tests (Vikas 1997).