The natural population of T. arjuna is decreasing at an alarming level due to the everincreasing
demand for drugs, overexploitation by leather and timber industries, indiscriminate
felling of trees, conversion of forest land into agricultural land, low percentage of seed
germination, and poor knowledge of their breeding system [9]. So, there is a need for the
identification of candidate pulse trees (CPT) with higher nutritional and medicinal value and
the development of highly efficient methods for micropropagation and conservation of this
medicinally valuable plant species.