Research Areas

The thrust area of research has been considered as follows, -

• Plant Taxonomy, Systematics and Biosystematics, Chemotaxonomy, Molecular Taxonomy: Plant-Ant Interactions (EFNs & Myrmecophilly), Host-Parasite interactions. Allelopathy,
• Micro-morphology, Ultrastructural Morphology, Pollen and Pollinial Diversity, Plant-Animal Interactions, Micro-characters [Calcium Oxalate Crystals (COCs), stone cells, sclerides, starch grains, stoma and trichromes, Plant Cuticular Wax (PCW), Silver Nano Particles etc]. Natural Dye yielding plants, Agrastal Flora, Aquatic Flora, Pteridophytes Flora, Dune Flora, Coastal Flora, Grass Flora, Parasitic and Hemiparasitic Flora. Socio-economic aspects of sabai grass, and Mat Grass
• Isolation, Characterization and uses of Secondary Metabolites from Hemi-Parasitic Taxa
• Phyto-remidiation based on Geo-Spatial Technologies
• Pollen-chemistry, study of allergenic proteins with its Epitope mapping
• Ethno-Medicinal studies, Biodiversity-Conservation
• Microbial Enzyme, Fungal Exopolysaccharide, Fungal Pigments
• Endophyte biology, Plant Microbe Interaction
• Medicinal Plants: Pharmaconostic study with Isolation, purification and characterization of biomolecules
• Profiling of fungi for different pharmacognostic parameters and nutritional properties
• Biodiversity and Secred grove
• Paleobotany, Palynology and Plant Reproductive Biology of medicinally important plants.
• Plant Physiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
• Cytogenetics, Biotechnology and Molecular Biology