Scientific Name Chenopodium album Linn. Family Chenopodiaceae Used Part Seeds. Distribution Area An erect herb, up to 3.5 m in height, found wild up to an altitude of 4,700 m, and cultivated throughout India. Common Uses . The plant is sweet, acrid,oleaginous, digestive, carminative, laxative, anthelmintic, diuretic, aphrodisiac and tonic, and is useful in vititated conditions of pitta, peptic ulcers, helminthisasis, dyspepesia, flatulence,strangury, seminal weakness, pharyngopathy, splenopathy, haemorrhoids, ophthalmopathy, cardiac disorder and general debility.

Scientific Name Cannabis sativa Linn. ( syn Cannabis indica L.) Family Cannabinaceae Used Part Leaves, flowers Distribution Area A annual occurring wild throughout the western Himalayas, and is also cultivated in this and adjoining region. Common Uses . Cannabis drugs have been used in India from ancient times. The drugs -- bhang, ganja, and charas - commonly used in India, are derived from the flowers, leaves and the resinous matter obtained from them. Bhang When taken orally in small doses they stimulate the appetite and digestion but their prolonged use leads to loss of appetite. They are prescribed in dyspepsia, colic and diarrhoea along with other drugs.

Influence of salinity on RuBiSCo and PEP case contents and / or activity in Maize Hypothesis: 1. The content and specific activity of RuBISCO and PEPC may be influenced due to salinity. 2. Whether the inhibition of RuBISCO or PEPC activity is due to reduction of amount or activity of enzymes and what is the role of other factors in protection of this. The importance of altered metabolism under abiotic stress for example diversion of carbon to polyol biosynthesis is exemplified by the metabolic reactions originating from the Glucose-6-P pool. The levels of glycine betaine are diverse in different varieties of maize (Brunk et al 1989).

Chloroplasts are the major site for the production of various sugars and sugar alcohols. However their number in cells has been found to be regulated by the sugars themselves in presence of appropriate growth regulators.

Whether the inhibition of RuBISCO or PEPC activity is due to reduction of amount or activity of enzymes and what is the role of other factors in protection of this. The importance of altered metabolism under abiotic stress for example diversion of carbon to polyol biosynthesis is exemplified by the metabolic reactions originating from the Glucose-6-P pool. The levels of glycine betaine are diverse in different varieties of maize (Brunk et al 1989).

Salt stress is one of the major constrains that limits crop productivity worldwide ( Boyer, 1982, Queseda and Ponce 2000 ) . Agricultural productivity in many aird and semi-arid regions of the world is threatened by the occurrence of salt affected soils. Estimates show that these soils occupy at least 20 percent of the irrigated land with an annual global income loss of about US $ 12 billion ( Ghassemi et al 1995).