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Natural colorants or dyestuffs are an essential faction of non-timber forest products that are widely used for coloring purposes in various industries. Of course, now-a-days synthetic dyes are used as a coloring agent but due to their various environmental, social and health problems, people are shifting from synthetic to natural coloring agents. Present paper provides a comprehensive review on dye yielding plants of Northwestern and Western Himalaya. A total of 87 dye producing plants belonging to 45 families and 74 genera including 38 herbs, 19 shrubs, 25 trees and 5 climbers, have been documented. Out of these, 26 species are well known as dye producing plants and are exploited commercially. The remaining 61 species are traditionally used for coloring purposes on a very small scale and a very little information is available as to their coloring properties. The study revealed that there is an urgent need to develop a pertinent policy and action plan for the optimum utilization of the available dyestuff.
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Wani, Z.A., Samant, S.S. & Pant, S. Diversity, utilization pattern and representativeness of dye yielding plants in North Western and Western Himalaya, India: an untapped source for Bioprospection. Environ Dev Sustain 24, 4493–4510 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01664-x
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