Propagation to Pharmacopeia: Modern Approaches in Medicinal Plants

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Abha Manohar K Ph.D. is currently working as Assistant Professor Forestry in Centurion University of Technology and Management Odisha India with teaching and research experience of more than five years. She holds a master degree from Sam Higginbottom University of Technology and Management and doctoral degree in forestry from Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya Cooch Behar West Bengal India. Prior to joining as Assistant Professor in the university she has worked under National Medicinal Plants Board Project as a Junior Research Fellow in Uttar Bange Krishi Viswavidyalaya. The focus of her research and teaching is on medicinal plants tissue culture forestry conservation ethnobotany and agroforestry with national and international publications including 25 Research papers 11 book chapters and one book. She has trained one master student. Dr. Abha Manohar K has attended more than nine national and international conferences and reviewing research articles for number of scientific journals.Gopal Shukla Ph.D. is currently working as Professor & Head in the Department of Forestry at North Eastern Hill University Tura Meghalaya India. He has worked as faculty member in the Department of Forestry at Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya (UBKV) Cooch Behar West Bengal India. He has more than 13 years of experience in forestry teaching research and extension. He has worked on different projects including the National Agricultural Innovation Project National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture and also as a DST- SERB young scientist on the project entitled carbon stock of different land uses of Terai Zone of West Bengal at UBKV. His specialization is forest ecology and his research and development work is on agroforestry medicinal plants forest ecology and conservation. He has published more than 100 papers and articles in refereed journals 30 book chapters and eight books. Dr. Shukla also guided four PhD and six MSc students in the field of forestry. He received the DST- SERB Young Scientist award in 2012.Saikat Gantait Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in Genetics & Plant Breeding as well as a Plant Breeder in the Crop Research Unit Directorate of Research Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV) (State Agricultural University) India. Following completion of his PhD in Biotechnology from BCKV he gained advanced research experience leading a group to conduct fruitful research during working as Research Associate in a DBT (Govt. of India)-funded project followed by working as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in University Putra Malaysia. He has guided/co-guided multiple MSc and PhD students. His 18-year research works so far include molecular markers plant tissue culture polyploidy-induction short-term (encapsulation/synthetic seed) and long-term (cryopreservation) conservation of medicinal and ornamental plant germplasms. In addition he is acting as Editorial Board Member in multiple journals including Springer Nature Elsevier and Frontiers. Dr. Gantait has reviewed more than 450 manuscripts as an ad-hoc reviewer in more than 75 different eminent journals from Springer Elsevier Taylor and Francis PLoS Wiley etc. Dr. Gantait was awarded with a Post-Doc fellowship from MOHE Malaysia and successfully passed 2 years of advanced training at University Putra Malaysia on plant tissue culture and germplasm conservation. Till date Dr. Gantait has published 165 articles/chapters in peer-reviewed journals and books mostly as the first/senior author (with cumulative SCI Impact Factor of more than 350 with 4500+ Google Scholar citations) and he has edited three books. He has been included in the list of the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide (2023) by Stanford University. Dr. Gantait so far has exhibited his research works in more than 40 national and international conferences/seminars/symposia.A. P. Das Ph.D. is a retired Professor of Botany University of North Bengal Siliguri West Bengal India. Dr. Das is now working as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Botany Rajiv Gandhi University Rono Hills Arunachal Pradesh India. He is teaching plant taxonomy for over 45 years. Originally a student of plant taxonomy he later diversified his fields of work to include biodiversity conservation ethnobotany ecology weed biology palynology remote sensing and aerobiology. He has published more than 240 research papers three text books three research based books two edited books and also some popular science books. So far 27 students have been awarded a Ph.D. under his supervision. At different times he has acted as Head of the Botany Department Director of the Centre for Life Science Coordinator for the Department of Biotechnology and Head of the Department of Tea Science NBU. Dr. Das has established the East Himalayan Society for Spermatophyte Taxonomy in the year 2007 and initiated the publication of the journal Pleione. He has also developed the NBU Garden of Medicinal Plants and NBU-Herbarium.Sumit Chakravarty Ph.D. has a wide experience of more than 20 years in forestry training research and development. He is currently working as a Professor of Forestry Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya Pundibari Cooch Behar West Bengal India. He holds a masters degree in Forestry and doctoral degree in Agronomy from Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana. He has conducted research on several aspects of forestry agroforestry medicinal plants and climate change with nationally and internationally reputed publications. This includes 120 research papers 48 book chapters and eight books. He has successfully completed and continues to work on 15 research projects on forest ecology medicinal plants and agroforestry. He has trained more than 50 master and doctoral students in the field of forestry. Dr. Chakravarty has attended more than 50 national and international conferences in the capacity of presenter and invited speaker.