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 Dr AKHILESH KUMAR


569 Gha/93/10 Ramgarh Colony
Kanpur Road Lucknow-226012
 09450184245



Work experiences
1.                  Young Scientist and Principal Investigator
CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
April 2013 (Present engagement)
Working as Young Scientist and Principal Investigator in the project titled “Utilization of industrial wastes for cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants in sodic soil”. The objectives of present project are as under-
  • To assess the possibility of utilizing fly ash and press mud for cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants in sodic soil.
  • To study the heavy metal accumulation in different plant matrix under press mud and fly ash treatment.
  • To study the impact of various ameliorants on physicochemical properties of soil and their effect on plants.  
2.                  Research Associate
CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
December 2009 to July 2012
Worked in a Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India (DBT) sponsored research project entitled “Multilocational trail of Jatropha curcas in different agro climatic zones and study of Agronomic practices.” there were three experiments in this project. Objectives of different trials were as under-
  • Multilocational trial

  1. To find the best performing accessions in particular agro climatic zone
  2. To find out best performing individuals in a particular agro climatic zone
  3. To study the variability in performance among accessions

  • Agronomy trial

  1. To find the Minimal but optimal fertilizer and irrigation requirements
  2. To find appropriate time of fertilization and irrigation
  3. To find role of sulpher fertilization in fruit/oil production
  4. Organic vs. inorganic cultivation of Jatropha curcas

  • Silvicultural Trial

  1. To increase the number of branches so as to optimize flowering and fruiting.

3.  Lecturer (Under self-finance scheme)

Dr Govind Prasad Rani Devi Patel Mahavidyalaya, Araul, Kanpur Nagar (Affiliated to Chhatrapati Sahu Ji Maharaj, Kanpur University, Uttar Pradesh, India)
March 2007 to December 2009
  • Administration of Botany department as head and teaching Botany in undergraduate classes
4. Lecturer (Contractual basis)
Pratap Bahadur Postgraduate College, Pratapgarh, (Affiliated to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad Uttar Pradesh, India)
September 2004 to February 2007
  • Teaching Botany in undergraduate classes
Experience with scientific equipments
Techniques Known: HPLC, UV-VIS Spectrophotometer, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, Flame Photometer, Kjeldahl Nitrogen Analyzer, Ion Analyzer etc.
Computer Skills: Operating Systems: MS-DOS and Windows. Word Processors: Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, MS Paint and Reference Manager to make bibliographic references and common internet browsing utilities.
Details of Professional Recognitions
Awards:
  • DST Young Scientist Project “Utilization of industrial wastes for cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants in sodic soil” sanctioned on 25.09.2012 for three years.
  • Elected Fellow of Life Sciences leaflets
Membership of editorial board:

International Journal of Botany
 Research Journal of Medicinal Plants
Asian Journal of Biological Sciences
Journal of Biological Sciences
Journal of Applied Sciences
 Life Sciences Leaflets

Membership of Professional Bodies:

        The Italo-Latin American Society of Ethnomedicine (SILAE)
        The Blue Planet Society

Biography included in

        A-Z in Ethnobotany (Dictionary of words and Who’s Who in Indian Ethnobotany) edited by Jain and Jain 2013.

        Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2014
Professional contributions and research output:
   Standardization of macro-propagation techniques for Jatropha gossypiifolia and  Leucaena leucocephala (Kumar and Singh 2012; Pandey and Kumar, 2013)
   Extraction and evaluation of herbal dye from Jatropha gossypiifolia for dying cotton yarn (Kumar and Singh, 2012)
     Give first report of Maconellicoccus hirsutus infestation on Jatropha curcas saplings (Kumar and Singh, 2013)
     Introduce the concept of “relative frequency of citation analysis” to identify culturally important plant genetic resources from Ethnobotanical data (Kumar et al. 2013)
   Conducted ethnobotanical study on wild vegetables of Kannauj district and highlighted their importance to combat malnutrition and hunger (Kumar 2013)
   Ethnobotanical study and exploration of underutilized plant genetic resources used by tribal communities of Uttar Pradesh for veterinary and human healthcare management. (Kumar et al, 2003, 05, 06, 07, 08, 10, 12, 13, Singh et al. 2012)
  Review of the potential of Jatropha curcas for sustainable environmental development (Pandey et al., 2012)
  Extraction and evaluation of herbal pesticides from Lantana and Clerodendrum to control Maconellicoccus hirsutus infestation on Jatropha curcas saplings (Kumar et al., 2010)
  Survey and assessment of phytodiversity of medicinal plants in degraded forest ecosystem at Chilbila, Pratapgarh (Pandey et al. 2010)
Publications in Journals:
Research papers:
1.      Akhilesh Kumar, S K Tewari 2015. Origin, distribution,   ethnobotany   and   pharmacology of Jatropha curcas. Research Journal of Medicinal Plant, 2015. DOI: 10.3923/rjmp.2015
2.      Vimal Chandra Pandey, Prem Prakash, Omesh Bajpai Akhilesh Kumar, Nandita Singh 2015. Phytodiversity on fly ash deposits: evaluation of naturally colonized species for sustainable phytorestoration. Environmental Science Pollution Research 22(4): 2776-2787 DOI 10.1007/s11356-014-3517-0 (Impact Factor -2.757) Print ISSN 0944-1344, Online ISSN 1614-7499.DOP 12/07/2014.
3.      Akhilesh Kumar* and Nandita Singh, 2014. First report of Maconellicoccus hirsutus Green infestation on Jatropha curcas saplings. Phytoparasitica 42(1): 71-73 DOI: 10.1007/s12600-013-0339-4. (Impact Factor -0.675) Print ISSN 0334-2123, Online ISSN 1876-7184. DOP 20/08/2013.
4.      Akhilesh Kumar, 2013. Ethnobotanical study of wild vegetables used by rural communities of Kannauj district, Uttar Pradesh, India. Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture, 25(10) DOI: 10.9755/ejfa.v25i10.16403 published on 30-03-2013. Online ISSN: 2079-0538, print ISSN: 2079-052X. Published by United Arab Emirates University.
5.      Akhilesh Kumar*, Vimal Chandra Pandey, Anant Gopal Singh and Divya Darshan Tewari, 2013. Traditional uses of medicinal plants for dermatological healthcare management practices by the Tharu tribal community of Utter Pradesh India. Genetic Resources and Crop Evaluation 60:203–224. (Impact Factor - 1.482 ) Print ISSN 0925-9864,Online ISSN 1573-5109.DOP 08/04/2012 Publisher Springer Netherlands
6.      Vimal Chandra Pandey and Akhilesh Kumar, 2013. Leucaena leucocephala: an underutilized plant for pulp and paper production. Genetic Resources and Crop Evaluation 60(3):1165-1171 DOI 10.1007/s10722-012-9945-0 (Impact Factor - 1.482) Print ISSN 0925-9864,Online ISSN 1573-5109.DOP 01/02/2013 Publisher Springer Netherlands
7.      Akhilesh Kumar*, Vimal Chandra Pandey and Divya Darshan Tewari, 2012. Documentation and determination of consensus about phytotherapeutic veterinary practices among the Tharu tribal community of Uttar Pradesh, India. Tropical Animal Health and Production 44:863–872. published on 18/09/2011(Impact Factor -0.97) Print ISSN     0049-4747, Online ISSN     1573-7438
8.      Anant Gopal Singh, Akhilesh Kumar, Divya Darshan Tewari, 2012. Ethnomedicinal uses of medicinal plants in Terai forest of western Nepal. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 8: 19.  DOI:10.1186/1746-4269-8-19 (Impact Factor -2.39) Online ISSN 1746-4269 published on 16/05/2012 by Biomed central
9.      Akhilesh Kumar* and Nandita Singh, 2012. Jatropha gossypiifolia L: a potential genetic resource for herbal dye. Genetic Resources and Crop Evaluation. 59:949–954. (Impact Factor -- 1.482) Print ISSN 0925-9864,Online ISSN 1573-5109.DOP 21/03/2012
10.  Akhilesh Kumar* 2012, Medicinal plants as a source of antipyretic agent in Terai region of Utter Pradesh, India. Life Sciences Leaflets 2:45-52. Published on 01/02/2012 by. ISSN: 0976-1098
11.  Vimal Chandra Pandey, Jay Shankar Singh, Akhilesh Kumar and, D. D. Tewari, 2010. Accumulation of heavy metal by chickpea grown in fly ash treated soil: effect on antioxidants. CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water 38 (12): 1116-1123 published on 09/12/2010 by WILEY-VCH Online ISSN: 1863-0669 (Impact Factor-2.117)
12.  Saurabh Pandey, Arvind Mishra and Akhilesh Kumar*, 2010. Medicinal Flora of degraded forest ecosystem at Chilbila, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh. Scitech 5 (2): 20-25.
13.  Akhilesh Kumar*, Arvind Mishra, Saurabh Pandey and D D Tewari, 2008. Phytotherapy against hair disorder among Tharu tribes in North eastern Terai belt of Uttar Pradesh, Vegetos-An International Journal of Plant Research 21 (1): 85-89 (Impact Factor-0.03)
14.  Akhilesh Kumar*, Arvind Mishra, Saurabh Pandey and D D Tewari, 2008. Ethnophytomagicotherapeutics among the Tharu tribes in North eastern Terai belt of Uttar Pradesh, Vegetos-An International Journal of Plant Research 21 (1): 91-97 (Impact Factor-0.03) ISSN : 0970-4078.
15.  Arvind Mishra, Saurabh Pandey, Akhilesh Kumar* and D D Tewari, 2008.  Phytotherapy against piles used by Tharu tribes in Devipatan division Uttar Pradesh, Scitech 3 (1): 10-12.
16.  Arvind Mishra, Saurabh Pandey, Akhilesh Kumar* and D D Tewari, 2008. Cleome viscosa: Role in traditional healthcare management Scitech 3 (1): 15-16.
17.  Akhilesh Kumar*, D D Tewari, and Arvind Mishra, 2007. Ecological concept of Tharu folk in north eastern Terai belt of Uttar Pradesh. Indian Journal of Environmental Sciences 11(2): 141-143.
18.  Akhilesh Kumar*, D D Tewari and J P Tewari, 2006. Ethnomedicinal knowledge among Tharu tribe of Devipatan division. Indian Journal of Tradition Knowledge 5 (3) 310-313. (Impact Factor—0.232) 
19.  Akhilesh Kumar*, D D Tewari and V C Pandey, 2005. Folk Botany of Achyranthes aspera in Terai belt of North eastern Uttar Pradesh, Vegetos-An International Journal of Plant Research 18: 89-92 (Impact Factor-0.03)
20.  Akhilesh Kumar*, D D Tewari and Sachin Tripathi, 2003. Folk Botany of an obnoxious weed Lantana sps in Terai belt of Northeastern Utter Pradesh, Vegetos-An International Journal of Plant Research 16: 21-26 (Impact Factor-0.03)
21.  Akhilesh Kumar*, D D Tewari and Y N Pande, 2003.  Ethnophytotherapeutics among Tharus of Beerpur Semara forest range of Balrampur, Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 27 (4): 839-844.
22.  Akhilesh Kumar*, D D Tewari and Y N Pande, 2003. Indigenous and traditional herbal medicines from Gonad district of Terai belt of North eastern Utter Pradesh, Journal of Nature Conservation 15 (1): 261-268.
23.  Akhilesh Kumar*, D D Tewari and Sachin Tripathi, 2003. Herbal medicines from Ayodhya region of Faizabad district: An ethnophytopharmacological survey, Journal of Living World 10 (1): 26-32.
Review article
1.        Akhilesh Kumar, S K Tewari, 2015. Origin, Distribution, Ethnobotany and Pharmacology of Jatropha curcas. Research Journal of Medicinal Plant. DOI: 10.3923/rjmp.2015.
2.         Vimal Chandra Pandey, Kripal Singh, Jay Shankar Singh, Akhilesh Kumar, Bajrang Singh, Rana P. Singh, 2012. Jatropha curcas: A potential biofuel plant for sustainable environmental development. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. 16: 2870– 2883. (Impact factor -5.551) Published on 21/03/2012 by Elsevier Science ISSN: 1364-0321
Book
1.         Akhilesh Kumar, D D Tewari, S K Tewari, 2014. Ethnobotanial Healthcare Management Practices in Uttar Pradesh: Ethnophytotherapeutics and crude drug formulations of Tharu tribal community. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-659-60881-0 https://www.lap-publishing.com/catalog/details//store/gb/book/978-3-659-60881-0/ethnobotanial-healthcare-management-practices-in-uttar-pradesh
Book chapter
1.       Akhilesh Kumar Use of medicinal plants as anthelmintic agent among the Tharu tribal community of Utter Pradesh, India. Miracles of Ethno-Botany: Socio-Economic Aspects” (Ed) P A Hoshamani and K Sandeepkumar. ISBN -978-81-928756-0-6”
Popular articles
1.      अखिलेश कुमार, विजेन्द्र चतुर्वेदी, देवेन्द्र सिंह, सुरेश शर्मा एवं श्रीकृष्ण तिवारी (2014), ऊसर भूमि में ईसबगोल की खेती - विज्ञान वाणी, 20: सीएसआईआर- राष्ट्रीय वनस्पति अनुसंधान संस्थान, लखनऊ 62-65।
2.       अखिलेश कुमार, ललित कुमार शर्मा, राकेश चन्द्र नैनवाल, श्वेता सिंह, राम शरण कटियार एवं श्रीकृष्ण तिवारी (2014), व्यक्तिगत स्वास्थ्य सुधार हेतु गुणकारी आवला, विज्ञान वाणी,  सीएसआईआर- राष्ट्रीय वनस्पति अनुसंधान संस्थान, लखनऊ 66-69
Seminar, Symposia and Conferences
  1. Akhilesh Kumar, S K Tewari, D D Tewari (2015) Healing herbs of Terai region of Utter Pradesh: Phytodiversity, Usages and Conservation Needs. International Conference on Medicinal Plant Resources for Affordable new generation Healthcare held at CIMAP on March, 20-22, 2015 http://icomp.cimap.res.in/icomp2015/SouvenirICOMP2015.pdf
  2. Akhilesh Kumar, S K Tewari (2015) Utilization of Industrial Wastes for Cultivation of East Indian Lemongrass in Sodic Soil. Fourth International Conference on Plant and Environmental Pollution” (ICPEP-5) held at NBRI, Lucknow on Feb. 24-27, 2015 https://www.scribd.com/doc/261256746/ICPEP-5-2015-Book-of-Abstracts#download
  3. Akhilesh Kumar, R C Nainwal, Devendra Singh, S K Tewari (2014) Utilization of industrial wastes for cultivation of industrial wastes for cultivation of Andrographis paniculata in sodic soil. National conference and exhibition on divine medicinal plants, plants based medicinal product, panchagavya and their role in integrated rural development held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 21 & 22 February 2014. 
  4. Akhilesh Kumar, Nandita Singh (2012). Ethnobotany of Jatropha.  National Seminar on “Impact of Developmental Activities on Traditional Ethnomedicines, Biodiversity and Its Conservation” held at CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, on March, 17-19
  5. Akhilesh Kumar, Anant Gopal Singh, D D Tewari (2012). Impact of Developmental Activities on Traditional Ethnomedicinal Practices and Phytodiversity in Terai Region of Indo-Nepal Boarder. National Seminar on Impact of Developmental Activities on Traditional Ethnomedicines, Biodiversity and Its Conservation held at CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, on March, 17-19
  6. Akhilesh Kumar, Nandita Singh (2011). Bio-prospecting of algal biodiversity for sustainable biofuel production and mitigation of global climate change. National Seminar on Environmental Degradation vis a vis Biodiversity Conservation” held at M.L.K. (P.G.) College, Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, on Nov. 05-06.
  7. Akhilesh Kumar, Prem Prakash, Nandita Singh (2010) Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) Infestation on Jatropha curcas L saplings and its possible management through herbal pesticides. Fourth International Conference on “Plant and Environmental Pollution” (ICPEP-4) held at NBRI, Lucknow on Dec. 08-11.
  8. Akhilesh Kumar, D D Tewari (2005). Folk Botany of Achyranthes aspera in Terai belt of north eastern Uttar Pradesh. National Seminar on Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development held at Balrampur on March 4-6.
  9. Akhilesh Kumar, D D Tewari (2002). Herbal medicines from Ayodhya region of Faizabad district. Silver Jubilee Conference of Indian Botanical Society and National Symposium held at M J P Rohilkhand University, Bareilly on Oct. 27-29, 2002.
Date of birth                           December 26, 1978




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