The Indian Sub-continent has been identified as one of the world’s ‘mega-diversity’ regions with two ‘hotspots’, namely, the Western Ghats/Sri Lanka and the Indo–Burma region (covering the Eastern Himalayas) (Myers et al., 2000). About 33% of the Indian flora is endemic to the country and is confined to the Western Ghats, Northeast, Northwest Himalayas, and the Andaman and Nicobar islands. However, in recent years, many a plant species including several unique and irreplaceable varieties has been under the threat of extinction.
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Tandon, P. (2007). In Vitro Strategies for Conservation of Plant Diversity in India. In: Xu, Z., Li, J., Xue, Y., Yang, W. (eds) Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture 2006 and Beyond. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6635-1_61
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