A Text Book On PLANT RESOURCES UTILIZATION AND CONSERVATION

Download or read book A Text Book On PLANT RESOURCES UTILIZATION AND CONSERVATION written by Dr. R. K. Behera , Dr. B. P. Samal , Dr. U. K. Rout & Dr. D. K. Sahoo and published by Laxmi Book Publication. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The food is an essential requirement of human beings. The prehistoric humans primarily got their food from the wild edible plants but since the time passed, they started to cultivate the wild plants. The traditions of those prehistoric humans take very prominent part in the origin of cultivation of plants. The domestication of plants is the starting step in the direction of a full- fledged agricultural economy. A plant is refers to as domestic when its natural characteristics got improved too much therefore it is hard to grow and reproduce those plant without human participation. It is thought the domestication is the co-evolutionary outcome of the symbiotic relationship between humans and the plants because plants and human behaviours evolve to suit one another. The humans started harvesting of plants selectively based on some precise characteristics of plants like taste, size, colour and many more. They stored and utilize the seeds of those specific plants for further cultivation.