An account is given on 77 taxa of wild edible plants used by tribal and rural people of Saurashtra. The tribal and rural people of Saurashtra have a fair knowledge of plants and their uses.The wild edible plants have served as supplement diet for tribal and rural people apart from main diet, during working hours and field trips. The tribes interrogated were Maldhari (Rabari), Bharwad, Aahir, Koli, Vaghri, Bhil and Kangsia of Saurashtra region.

During Ethnobotanical studies conducted on Barda Hills in Gujarat, tribal people live in small settlement called Ness. The paper deals with 130 medicinal plants commonly used by tribal people for controlling diabetes

During the ethnobotanical field studies at Bankura district a good number of angiospermic plants have been identified as source of non-conventional oil both edible and non-edible. In this paper eleven such plants like Aphanamixis polystachya, Argemone mexicana, Azadirchta indica, Butea monosperma, Ceiba pentandra, Celastrus paniculatus, Hibiscus sabdariffa, Holoptelea itegrifolia, Schleichera oleosa, Shorea robusta & Xanthium strumarium have been discussed.

This article highlights a research on integral aspects of plants and plant use among the tribe Kadars of Tamil Nadu and Sahariyas of Madhya Pradesh. This study will enable to access the diversity of plant resources used, but also to establish whether they use the same plant and or influence each other in the  adoption and use of certain plants.

Pus samples were collected from ear-disease  patients  and they were  investigated for the presence of fungal pathogens. Four fungal pathogens were identified and isolated. The predominant fungus Aspergillus flavus was selected for the following study. The antifungal activity of the medicinal plants Allium sativum, A. cepa, Cleome viscosa, Eclipta p •ostrata, Piper betle, Sansevieria roxburghiana and Solanum trilobatum were studied. Allium sativum and A. cepa showed significant activity  against A. flavus.

Typha elephantina Roxb. is a tall, hardy, perennial marshy herb, cultivated in a large scale in West Bengal. The immense ethnic potentialities of this species to the people of West Bengal have been investigated and presented in this paper.