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The university’s botany department’s associate professor, DK Gaikwad, is co-ordinating the project in the SU.

Gaikwad said that information on the medicinal plants like their location, GPS mapping, usage of the medicinal plants in various diseases; life stages of these plants, suitable environment and photos are being collected. This information will later be put up on a website.

In fact, 300 medicinal plants have been selected on priority basis. However, the SU has collected information on 450 medicinal plants.

“The project is immensely important in the age of globalisation. Once the digital inventory is ready, it will be easy to claim the patent on these plants. Besides, we will get to know which plants are threatened and their conservation programme can be launched. This project will also help in the research on the medicinal properties of the various plants,” he said