Acknowledgement
We are very grateful to the Head, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of
Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, for providing necessary facilities. The
Banaras Hindu University is also thankfully acknowledged for providing financial
assistant to Dr. A. Singh as PI under IoE seed grant scheme (Dev. IoE Scheme
No. 6031). All editors thankfully acknowledge the contributions of all the authors
and their efforts and time dedicated to this book. Editors also gratefully acknowledge
the team at Springer Nature who made possible the proposed book in its
present form.
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