Thanks Vijayasankar ji and Pankaj ji for encouraging comments
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks Gurcharan ji for the nice pictures. For the first time I observed > this plant in Agriculture university campus, Raipur during student life. Now > it is spreading in different parts of the state as the technologies from the > campus are reaching to farmer's fields through field demonstrations. > > It is reported as problematic weed in rabi crops specially in wheat from > North India. On one hand the weed experts are engaged in scientific trials > to develop herbicides to manage it and on the other hand the Traditional > Healers are trying to use this alien species as source of new medicines. > Many of them have developed new uses. For example, in Andrographis based > formulations they add Cirsium roots to nullify the harmful effects of > Andrographis. Their research is never ending process. > > regards > > Pankaj Oudhia > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Cirsium arvense from Kashmir, growing along roadsides and wastelands, >> Photographed on June 19, 2010. >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >> >> >
