Editorial Team
Scientific Editor
Pramila Majumdar, CSIR-NIScPR, India
Chief Editor
FR Dr S. Ignacimuthu, S J
Director and Research Supervisor
Xavier Research Foundation, St Xavier’s College
Palayamkottai 627002, Tamil Nadu, India
Executive Editor
Dr P. Pushpangadan
Director General
Amity Institute For Herbal and Biotech Products Development
3 Ravi Nagar, Ambalamukku, Peroorkada P.O.,
Thiruvananthapuram 695005, Kerala, India
Subject Editors
Dr Sharad K Srivastava
Pharmacognosy Division
CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute
Lucknow 226001, India
Dr Navin Kumar Rastogi
Department of Food Engineering
CSIR- Central Food Technological
Research Institute
Mysore 570020, Karnataka, India
Prof Jyoti Prakash Tamang
Department of Microbiology
Sikkim University, Tadong 737102,
Gangtok, Sikkim, India
Dr Randhir Singh Dahiya
Department of Pharmacology
Central University of Punjab
Ghudda 151401, Bathinda, Punjab, India
Dr Deepak Kumar Semwal
Faculty of Biomedical Sciences
Uttarakhand Ayurved University
Dehradun 248001, Uttarakhand, India
Dr Koppala Narayana Sunil Kumar
Department of Pharmacognosy,
Siddha Central Research Institute,
(Central Council for Research in Siddha
Ministry of AYUSH - Govt. of India)
Arumbakkam, Chennai 600106, India
Editorial Board
Dr Sanjay Kumar
Director, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan
Bioresource Technology
Palampur 176061, (H.P.), India
Dr Anantanarayanan Raman
School of Agricultural & Wine Sciences
Charles Sturt University, Australia
Dr R. Raghavendra Rao
INSA Honorary Scientist
Yelahanka, Bengaluru 560064
Karnataka, India
Dr Ashok Pandey
Centre for Innovation & Translational Research
CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research
Lucknow 226 001, Uttar Pradesh, India
Dr Mark Nesbitt
Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom
Prof N. Kandasamy
Professor of Animal Genetics (retd.)
6, Veeramathi Amman Kovil Street, P.N. Pudur
Coimbatore 641 041, Tamil Nadu, India
Dr Vineet Kumar
Chemistry and Bioprospecting Division
Forest Research Institute
Dehradun 248006, India
Dr Pradeep K. Divakar
Dept. Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany
Faculty of Pharmacy
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Prof Andrea Pieroni
University of Gastronomic Sciences
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II 9
I-12042 Pollenzo, Bra, Cuneo, Italy
Prof Inder Pal Singh
Department of Natural Products
NIPER Sector 67,
SAS Nagar 160062, Punjab, India
Prof Nawal Kishore Dubey
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India
Dr Sevindik Mustafa
Department of Food Processing
Bahçe Vocational School
Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Turkey
Dr Syed Mustapha Meeran
Department of Biochemistry
CSIR-Central Food Technological
Research Institute
Mysore 570020, Karnataka, India
Dr B. R. Senthil Kumar
National Institute of Siddha
Tambaram Sanatorium, Chennai 600047,
Tamil Nadu, India
Dr P. Manickam
ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology,
Chennai 600077, Tamil Nadu, India
Dr Sundaresan Velusamy
CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and
Aromatic Plants
Lucknow 226015, Uttar Pradesh, India
Dr Karuna Shanker
CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and
Aromatic Plants
Lucknow 226015, Uttar Pradesh, India
Dr Lalit Tewari
Department of Botany
D.S.B. Campus, Kumaun University
Nainital 263001, Uttarakhand
Dr Debabrata Sircar
Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Roorkee 247667, Uttarakhand, India
Dr Aijaz Ahmad
Department of Clinical Microbiology and
Infectious Diseases
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr K. S. Jayachandran
Department of Forests and Wildlife
Government of NCT of Delhi,
New Delhi 110002, India
Dr Ardalan Pasdaran
Medicinal Plants Processing Research Center
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
Shiraz, Iran
Dr Vipin Vyas
Department of Applied Aqua Culture and Zoology
Barkatullah University
Bhopal 462026, Madhya Pradesh, India
Dr G. R. Janardhana
Department of Studies in Botany
University of Mysore
Mysuru 570006, Karnataka, India
Dr D. P. Abrol
Faculty of Agriculture,
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural
Sciences & Technology
Jammu 180009, (J&K), India
Dr Arun P. R.
Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural
History (SACON)
Coimbatore 641108, Tamil Nadu, India
