Team L&M India’s biodiversity hotspot, the Western Ghats, is home to 62 Desiccation-Tolerant Vascular Plant Species which could have applications in agriculture, particularly in areas with scarcity of water. Desiccation-tolerant vascular (DT) plants are able to withstand extreme dehydration, losing up to 95 per cent of their water content, but they revive once water is […]Read More
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Team L&M A rare low-altitude basalt plateau housing 76 species of plants and shrubs from 24 different families has been discovered in Manjare village, Thane district in the Western Ghats region, by Dr Mandar Datar of Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune and his team. It can prove to be a repository of information for species […]Read More
Team L&M Shree Sharavi Mahaganapathi Temple in Mangaluru did something innovative this Ganesh Chaturthi. Rising to the increasing global warming that has become a threat to the environment, the temple management opened a counter for Vriksha Seva on the day. The counter had saplings of 21 kind of trees, each sapling priced at Rs 50. […]Read More