Plants of Commercial Values - Hardcover

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Bikarma Singh was born in India and is working as a Senior Scientist at the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow - one of the pioneer institutes of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, known for the largest research and development activities under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is recognized as Assistant Professor in AcSIR (Ghaziabad), and registered as Ph.D. Supervisor in University of Jammu. He graduated with Honours and is a Gold Medalist in Botany from North-Eastern Hill University Shillong in 2005, and completed a Doctorate Degree in Botany from Gauhati University Assam and Botanical Survey of India (Shillong) Meghalaya in 2012. Prior to joining CSIR-NBRI Lucknow in 2020, he was working as Senior Scientist in CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine Jammu and was involved in R&D related to Plant Sciences. He also served as Scientist-Ecologist in WAPCOS Limited Gurgaon.

Currently, Dr. Singh pursues research with passion and possesses 15 years research experience in Plant Sciences, expertised in systematic and biotechnology, ethnobotany, value addition from essential oils, ecology, biodiversity germplasm conservation and EIA. He is serving as a reviewing member for National and International Scientific SCI and UGC listed journals, undertaken as lead leader for organizing many seminars and workshops. He received Prestigious recognition as Outstanding Scientist in Botany in 2019 awarded by Venus International Foundation, Chennai and two of his Ph.D. Scholar received best research paper award, working in the area of Botany. He authored/co-authored 8 books and published 86 research papers/experimental findings in peer-reviewed International and National journals. His recent books are Botanical Leads for Drug Discovery, Plants for Human Survival and Medicine and Plants of Commercial Values. He has 2 patents on medicinal aspects, and worked as PI/Co-PI/Team member for more than 40 research projects funded by Govt. and Private Organizations. He is supervising 5 Ph.D. students in Science to defend their doctorate degree. He is a member of several research committees, and delivered invited talks as key-note speaker/lecturer under various themes in several conferences, seminars and workshops.