Edible Bananas of South India: Taxonomy & Phytochemistry

Dr. M. Sabu, Reader in the Department of Botany, University of calicut, kerala has more than 23 years of research and teaching experience. He did his Ph.D. from University of calicut and published 36 research publications including 8 new species, 3 new combinations and several new distributional records in Angiosperm Taxonomy. Zingibers were his special subject and contributed much to the knowledge of India Zingiberaceae through many original research papers dealing with critical accounts of many new taxa. He participated in several Foreign and Indian symposia, seminars and workshops. Dr. Sabu is a fellow of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (IAAT) and member of several scientific bodies. He had Principal Investigator of research projects funded by UGC, DST (new Delhi) and currently collaborating with BGCI (London), HSBC (Hong Kong) and NBRI (lucknow) funded project on "Conservation of Indian Zingberaceae",