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PP.41. Empirical Tribal claims and correlation with antimicrobial activity: a study on Dioscorea pubera Bl. Enum. a medicinally important famine wild tuber crop of Similipal Biosphere Reserve, Odisha

National Conference on New Frontiers in Medicinal Plant Research - 2013 & Special Meeting on Medicinal Plants for Livelihood Security & Community Empowerment in Eastern Himalayas 3-5 October 2013 Gangtok, East Sikkim Organized by  Department of Botany, Sikkim University 81 | P a g e PP.41. Empirical Tribal claims and correlation with antimicrobial activity: a study on Dioscorea pubera Bl. Enum. a medicinally important famine wild tuber crop of Similipal Biosphere Reserve, Odisha Sanjeet Kumar et al., 2013 Department of Botany, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack- 753 003, Odisha, India Email Id: sanjeet.biotech@gmail.com Abstract National Park, Biosphere Reserves and Sanctuaries are the prominent habitat of ethnic tribes and their medicinal practices. Similipal Biosphere Reserve (SBR) Forest is hub of unexplored wild plants having medicinal as well as food values. The ethnic tribes of SBR are in habit of using plants and their parts for curing