The Amanitaceae of India

Ashok Kumar obtained M.Sc. and M.Phil degrees in Zoology from Chaudhary Charan Singh University. He started his research work in the field of Avian Endocrinology and submitted thesis for obtained Ph.D. He has presented and also published research papers in reputed Journal. Presently he is working in Homeopathis Pharmacopolea Laboratory (HPL), CGO-I, Hapur Chungi, Ghaziabad. He is a member of several societies. He is an author of following books:-Movement and Locomotion in Animals, Animal Physiology & Human Physiology.

Dr. T.N. Lakhanpal, Professor, Department of Biosciences, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, is a Gold Medallist from Punjab University, Chandigarh and received Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. He has published more than 150 research papers. During the last two decades he has extensively surveyed the N.W. Himalayas for mushrooms and has worked the biodiversity of microbes and other plants in the Himalayas. He has co-authored Taxonomy of Indian Myxomycetes (J. Cramer, Germany), Rural Eneregy Alternatives in the Hilly Areas (TODAy and Tomorrow Publ. New Delhi) and The Amanitaceae of India (Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun). He is a member of many scientific societies and associations. So far around 23 students have received Ph.D. degree under his supervision. He has been associated with many committees in Botany and Biology. Dr. Lakhanpal is very well known for his research contributions in India as well as abroad.