“…Earlier studies on L. polyphyllum have mainly focused on cytological observations (Mehra & Sachdeva, 1976), anatomical features (Dhyani et al, 2009), phenology (Dhyani et al, 2010a), medicinal uses (Dhyani et al, 2010b), fungal disease (Dhyani, Nautiyal, Nautiyal, Rivera, et al, 2012), age determination (Dhyani, Nautiyal, & Nautiyal, 2012), seed dormancy (Dhyani et al, 2013), conservation status (Dhyani et al, 2018), seed storage behaviour (Dhyani et al, 2019), karyomorphology (Kumar et al, 2021), species distribution modeling (Dhyani et al, 2021) and propagation methods such as seed germination, vegetative propagation, tissue culture (Dhyani et al, 2014) and micropropagation (Panwar et al, 2017). However, to the best of our knowledge, no field studies have been conducted to evaluate and demonstrate suitable methods for mass production.…”