P. S. Tresina - Wild edible underutilized plants : nutritional, antinutritional, and nutraceutical aspects

V. R. Mohan, PhD

Professor, Department of Biomedical Science & Technology, Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kumaracoil, Thuckalay - 629 180, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India.

V. R. Mohan, PhD, is a former Associate Professor and Head of Botany at V. O. Chidambaram College, Tuticorin, India. His research areas are seed biochemistry and ethnopharmacology. He earned his PhD in the field of wild edible legumes and now has nearly 30 years of undergraduate as well as post-graduate teaching experience, along with 24 years of research experience. During his teaching service, he has supervised 41 PhD students on ethnomedicinal plants and 17 MPhil students in the same field. He has published more than 400 research articles related to ethnomedicinal plants in various international and national peer-reviewed refereed journals. He is a resource person in this field. His other works include documentation of ethnomedicinal plants that are endemic to Southern Tamil Nadu. He had also surveyed and documented several ethnomedicinal plants along with their pharmacognostical and pharmacological aspects) in the region of Southern Western Ghats and Tamil Nadu. Dr. Mohan organized an UGC-sponsored seminar and an In-Service Training Program sponsored by Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology. He also serves as a reviewer for various international journals. Furthermore, he has received PEARL Foundation Best Senior Scientist Award conferred by PEARL, A Foundation for Educational Excellence. His Google Scholar citation is 3679 with an H index of 30 and an 117 index of 97.

P. S. Tresina, PhD

Assistant Professor, PG and Research Department of Botany,
V.O. Chidambaram College, Tamil Nadu, India

P. S. Tresina, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Botany at V. O. Chidambaram College, Tuticorin, India. She has five years of teaching experience and nine years of research experience in seed biochemistry as well as ethnopharmacology. During her teaching service, she has supervised 2 MPhil students in the same field. She has published nearly 93 articles in various international and national peer-reviewed refereed journals and four book chapters. She has been awarded a Tamil Nadu Government stipend for a full-time scholarship for the year 20092010 and has worked as UGC Major Research Project Fellow in the Postgraduate & Research Department of Botany at V. O. Chidambaram College. Dr. Tresina has received a Best Young Women Scientist Award in Botany, conferred by PEARL, A Foundation For Educational Excellence. Dr. Tresina earned her PhD specializing in seed biochemistry and earned her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in botany from St. Marys College, Tuticorin, India.

A. Doss, PhD

Assistant Professor, PG and Research Department of Botany, V.O. Chidambaram College, Tamil Nadu, India.

A. Doss, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Botany at V. O. Chidambaram College, Tamil Nadu, India. He has three years of teaching experience and ten years of research experience in the field of ethnopharmacology. He has received his graduation and postgraduation degrees from St. Josephs College, Trichy, India, and Doctor of Philosophy from National College, which is affiliated with Bharathidasan University, India. He has published more than 130 research papers in various international and national peer-reviewed refereed journals as well as two books.