Butea monosperma Roxb. ex Willd.
Vernacular Names :- Assam : Polah ; Bengal : Kinka ; Bihar : Paras ; Bombay : Khakara ; Central provinces : Pharas ; English : Flame of the forest, Bastard teak ; Gujrat : Pallaso ; Hindi : Palas, Dhak , Tesu ; Punjab: Pahal ; Sanskrit : Raktak pushpaka ; Tamil : Palasu ; Telgu : Kimsukamu.
Family :- Papilionaceae.
Distribution :- It is found in Ceylon and throughout India.
Abrus precatorius Linn.
Vernacular Names :- Assam : Latuwani ; Bengal : Chunhati ; Bombay : Ghungchi ; English : Indian liquorice ; Gujrat : Chanoti ; Hindi : Chirmiti, Rati ; Punjab : Labri Ratak ; Sanskrit : chataki ; Tamil : Adisamiyai ; Telgu : Raktika.
Family :- Papilionaceae.
Distribution :- It is found in Ceylon, Pakistan, throughout the tropical regions and it is found throughout India.
Thousand ha of land is lying as wasteland between Ahamedabad to Bhavnagar but Prosopis juliflora , Salvadora prominent. On inland wasteland areas CSMCRI has done very good Jatropha cultivation. Now the technology for biodiesel has been perfected and patented its ideal plant for wastelands provided proper agotechnology is employed. However Salicornia is good for inland marshes while Salvadora is well supported in saline areas of extreme nature. There is need to colonise wasteland using a combination of petro crops, oil yielding plants and wasteland colonizers
Biomass utilization for food, fuels and chemicals.
Biomass :
Biomass refers to all the matter that can be obtained from photosynthesis. Most vegetable species use solar energy to create sugars from carbon dioxide and water.They store this energy in the form of glucose or starch molecules, oleaginous, cellulose, and lignocellulose.
Bioprocess engineering
The large scale plant cell and tissue cultures have been
considered as an alternative source of biochemicals over the
last 40 years. Routien and Nickel received the first patent
for the cultivation of plant tissue in 1956 [1] and suggested
its potential for the production of secondary metabolites
[2]. Shortly after that time, the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) started to support research
of plant cell cultures for regenerative life support systems.
Since early 1960s, experiments with plants and plant tissue
cultures were performed under various conditions of microgravity
in space (one-way spaceships, biosatellites, space
shuttles and parabolic flights, the orbital stations Salyut and
Metabolism in Plant tissue cultures and its industrial applications in the era of genetic manipulations.
Humans have been manipulating the genetic makeup of agricultural plants (and animals) for millennia. Recently, the pace of change has increased markedly as researchers apply molecular tools to modify a wide range of agronomic characteristics and to develop
and market transgenic crops that generate specific novel products (ap Rees,
1995). Among many others, these include vaccines and other pharmaceuticals, plastics, and proteins that may render certain plants effective tools for environmental decontamination (John and Keller, 1996; Raskin, 1996; Arntzen, 1997; Hezari and Croteau, 1997).
Related techniques can be adapted to manipulate endogenous biochemical
Feeling no pain: plants were first to let it happen
Gene, gene expression, gene silencing and RNAi 
