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The Botanical Survey of India (BSI) has a caller director. Kanad Das is the archetypal mycologist to caput the premier probe institute nether the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC).
Dr. Das, who took complaint arsenic the 13th manager of BSI, is an adept connected the taxonomy of fungi. His technological achievements see the find of 2 caller genera and 165 caller taxon of chaotic mushrooms successful India.
“His pioneering probe has been wide recognised, with 170 probe papers published successful renowned nationalist and planetary journals specified as Nature Portfolio (Scientific Reports), Fungal Diversity, Journal of Fungi, Mycosphere, and IMA Fungus, among others. His scholarly contributions are besides reflected successful 8 authoritative books connected chaotic mushrooms,” a property connection by the BSI said.
Dr. Das, who started his vocation astatine BSI arsenic a probe student successful Dehradun, has implicit 25 years of acquisition and has besides served arsenic the caput of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden and Central National Herbarium.
Flora of India checklist
Speaking to The Hindu, he said that the contiguous task earlier him volition beryllium to hole a broad checklist of the country’s little groups of plants and fungi.
Dr. Das added that the BSI has astir completed the Flora of India checklist, which refers to the higher radical of plants.
The BSI manager besides added that the organisation volition prioritise the digitisation of the nationalist database of herbarium specimens truthful that communal radical tin besides person access.
Dr. Das succeeds A. A. Mao, who was an adept successful works tissue-culture and the taxonomy of rhododendrons. BSI was acceptable up successful 1890 and has 11 determination centers with 4 units headquartered successful Kolkata.
