Department of Forest Biology, College of Forestry, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Sirsi-581401, Karnataka, India
*Author for Correspondence: Email-vasudevar@uasd.in; vasukoppa@gmail.com
Online Published on 07 November, 2022.
The Western Ghats of India is a rich repository of forest genetic resources in terms of wild flora, wild relatives of crop plants, edible fruits, medicinal plants and myriad agro-forestry systems. This paper discusses the importance and potentiality of novel approaches such as ‘Forest gene banks’ and ‘circa situm conservation’. It also emphasizes creation of range-wide, spatially explicit big-database on circa situm conservation value of agro-forestry systems as well as to develop guidelines for establishment of circa situm gene banks across the country.
Big-data, Forest gene bank, Medicinal plants, On farm conservation
