Saurashtra – Kachchh Region Of Gujarat Possesses Unique Components Of Flora. Medicinal Plants Have Been Used By Mankind For Ages To Cure Common As Well As Serious Health Ailments. Indian Flora Comprises An Affluent Floristic Diversity Of Medicinal Plants. Medicinal Values Of These Plants Are Exploited In Major Modes Of Therapy Such As Homeopathy, Aromatherapy, Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine, Unani, Herbal Therapy, Etc. The Documentation Of Ethnobotanical Information Is Essential For A Better Understanding Of The Relations Between Humans And Plants And To Progress Related Disciplines Such As Ethnopharmacology. Kachchh Supports Many Plant Species Of High Medicinal Value Of These Several Species. Gujarat Covers A Nearly 1600 Km Coastal Area, Which Is The Longest Among All The States Of The Country, And It Covers Almost 21.9% Of The Indian Coastline Of India. Marine Macroalgae Are A Diverse Group Of Organisms. Seaweed Has Great Importance, Rich In Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, Carbohydrates, Amino Acids, Lipids, Etc. It Is Used As Food, Animal Feeds, Fertilizer, And As Raw Materials In The Industrial Production Of Industrial Phycocolloids On Nutritional Food And Aquaculture. Due To The Richness Of Bioactive Constituents, It Revealed Many Applications Such As Antioxidant, Anticancer, Antimalarial, And Pharmacological Activities.

To Identify The Medicinally Important Plants From Saurashtra Kutch Region And Prepare Its Herbarium For Documentation. To Check The Diversity Of Marine Algae From The Coastline Of Gujarat And Prepare Its Herbarium For Documentation.

Various Economic And Ethno-botanical Important Plants Were Observed In Saurashtra Kutch Region And Its Prepared Checklist And Herbarium For Further Study. The Occurrence And Distribution Of Red, Green, And Brown Algae Were Observed In Different Sea Sites Based On Their Adaptability. R.V. Pandya And V.S. Thaker (2009) Peroxidase Activities Of Marine Algae. In Proceeding Of International Conference On Algal Biomass Resources And Utilization. B.P. Sheth And V.S. Thaker (2014) In Silico Analyses Of Rubisco Enzymes From Different Classes Of Algae.  Int Res  J Biol Sci. 3:11-17 J.H. Patel And Thaker V.S. (2015) Whole Genome Sequencing Of Halomonas Sp. SUBG004 Isolated From Little Rann Of Kutch, A Desert Of India. Genom Data 6:19–20 R.P. Kuvad, K.S. Chudasama And V.S. Thaker (2017) A Rapid And High Throughput Method For Extraction Of Genomic DNA From Some Marine Algal Species Of Rhodophyceae.  Agricultural Research Journal. 54(3): 410-413 Bhatt, P.P. And Thaker, V.S., 2018. The Complete Chloroplast Genome Of Cenchrus Ciliaris (Poaceae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 3(2), Pp.674-675. Bhatt, P.P. And Thaker, V.S., 2019. Extremely Diverse Structural Organization In The Complete Mitochondrial Genome Of Seedless Phoenix Dactylifera L. Vegetos, 32(1), Pp.92-97. Bhatt, P. And Thaker, V., 2021. A Comparative Study On 193 Plastomes Of Poaceae For Validity And Implications Of Individual Barcode Genes And Concatenated Protein Coding Sequences With Selected Plastomes Of Grasses From The Desert Of India. Meta Gene, 29, P.100921.