This issue brings out the information on advances in pollen-spore research in India. The topics covered are aeromycoflora, pollen relationships with honey bees, pollen calendars of honey bees and pollen and spore allergy. The information on these topics is of immense value for academicians, agriculturists, apiculturists and biologists. The authors of each papers have discussed the present trends in pollen-spore research. Further, pollen calendars of honey bees are very important for bee-keeping in different eco-regions of India. The information on aeromycoflora and their incidence in different seasons in different environmental settings is very valuable for agriculturists to frame remedial measures for allergic symptoms caused by different fungal and pollen spora and for farmers to avoid exposure to such allergenic spora during their peak occurrence. The information on pollen morphological characteristics enables us to understand the relationships between plants and honey bees in terms of pollination. The list of allergenic pollen plants presented in this book helps us to avoid such plants while selecting plant species in plantation programmes or in green belt development programmes, especially in urban centers. All these various aspects of structural and functional characteristics of pollen and spore flora have been discussed in great details by the respective authors. Therefore, this book is a valuable source of information for those who are working in this discipline.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A J Solomon Raju
Dr. Aluri Jacob Solomon Raju is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. He did outstanding research in the subjects of Pollination Ecology, Conservation Biology, environmental Microbiology and Sanitation, and Aeorbiology. He published more that 200 research papers in International and National journals. He executed different major research projects funded by DST, UGC, MOEF, ICAR and CSIR. He is a Visiting Professor of the University of Colima, Mexico. He did postdoctoral research at the University of Akron, Ohio, USA for which he was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award in 1991. He received the Best Researcher Award of the Andhra University, Best Paper Presentation Award and Loyola environmental Award from Loyola College, Chennai, India, in recognition of his outstanding research in biology. He served as Guest Editor for different volumes of Journals of Palynology. He is a member of several scientific societies in USA, Japan and India. He was an elected member of Sigma Xi, USA. He attended more than 50 national conferences and 20 international conferences. He visited USA, Canada, UK, Brazil, Mexico, Italy and Paraguay. He served as Consultant for Food and Agricultural Organization of United Nations, Rome, Italy. He is the Resource Person for all India Radio Programmes on Science, Academic Staff Colleges and Chairperson for several technical programmes of International and National Conferences, etc. He organized different national level conferences on Pollination Ecology and published popular articles in daily news papers for the promotion of science. several of his papers were cited in published papers in international and national journals. Presently, he is operating major research projects on Pollination Ecology of Biodiesel Plants.
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