Mycoflora of Northwest Himalayas: Himachal Pradesh

Prof. R.C. Sharma headed important Museums of the country like Government Museum, Mathura; State Museum, Lucknow; Indian Museum,, Kolkata and finally, the Natioinal Museum, New Delhi as the Director-General and Vice-Chancellor, National Museum Institute. He also served the Banaras Hindu University as the Director, Bharat Kala Bhavan and Professor of Indian art and Museology. Presently, he is the Honorary Director / Acharya of Jnana-Pravaha – Centre for Cultural Studies, Varanasi. Beside authoring several books and editing journals and bulletins in the field of Early Indian Art, he has contributed a large number of papers published in the journals in India and abroad.

Dr. Y.S. Paul, presentely working as Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, CSKHPKV, Palampur has been working on the taxonomic aspects of various fungi since 1976. He has written a book ‘Plant Pathogenic Fungi’ and edited two as co-editor on ‘Diseases of Vegetable Crops’ and ‘Diseases of Field Crops’. He has published more than 100 research papers in various National and International journals. He has visited Ethiopia, United Arab Emirates and Uganda.