P R Gajurel and B Singh
North Eastern Regional Institute of Sciences and Technology, India
Biography
Dr. P. R. Gajurel presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Forestry at NERIST, India has been working in plant diversity and taxonomy of higher plants in the Eastern Himalayan region of India since past 20 years. During the past 10 years he has extensively working on medicinal plants and their management and conservation including the traditional knowledge systems. He discovered three new species of Piper and one sub species of Primula etc. He has already guided 8 Doctoral thesis in the field in the area of taxonomy, ethnobotany and forest resource utilization. He has received various national and international awards for his research activities. Some of the awards are Young Scientist award, by Department of SWcience & Technology (DST), Govt of India; K. S. Manilal award for best paper presentation by Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (IAAT), India; Singapore Botanic Garden Research Fellowship by Singapore National Park Board, Badal Datta Award of Ethnobotany by East Himalayan Society for Spermatophyta Taxonomy (EHSST), India etc.