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Dr. Akhilesh Kumar

Also known as: Dr. A K Shukla

Dayalbagh Educational Institute Faculty of Science, Sant Tulsi Das Post Graduate College, Kadipur, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Fragrance & Flavour Development Centre

ORCID iD 0000-0001-7274-1359
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Dr Akhilesh Kumar is presently working as an Assistant Professor in Botany at Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed to be University), Agra since February 2017. He has completed his M Sc and Ph D degrees in Botany from Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University Faizabad in 2000 and 2005 respectively. The topic of his Ph D was “Ethnobotanical aspects of Pharmacological Flora used by Tharu Tribes in Tarai belt of North-eastern Uttar Pradesh”.
After completing his Ph D, he has done teaching and research in various institutions like PBPG College, Pratapgarh, Dr GPRDP College, Kanpur, CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow, FFDC Kannauj and STD PG College Sultanpur before joining DEI, Agra.
Dr Kumar has made very significant research contribution in the field of Ethnobotany. He had explored the underutilized plant genetic resources used by the Tharu tribal community of Uttar Pradesh for veterinary and human healthcare management. He had also conducted ethnobotanical study on wild vegetables of Kannauj district and highlighted their importance to combat malnutrition and hunger. He had introduced the concept of “Relative frequency of citation” analysis for the identification of culturally important plant genetic resources from ethnobotanical data. He is always interested in natural plant products. He extracted herbal dye from the aerial parts of Jatropha gossypiifolia and evaluated its fastness properties for dying cotton yarn. He has given first report of Maconellicoccus hirsutus Green infestation on Jatropha curcas and describe the potential loss to the J curcas from the M hirsutes and also evaluated some herbal pesticides for its control.

Employment

  • Dayalbagh Educational Institute Faculty of Science Assistant Professor
    2017 - Present
  • Sant Tulsi Das Post Graduate College, Kadipur Assistant Professor
    2016 - 2017
  • Fragrance & Flavour Development Centre Consultant
    2016 - 2016
  • National Botanical Research Institute CSIR
    2009 - 2016
  • Dr G P R D Patel Mahavidhyalaya Lecturer
    2007 - 2009
  • Pratap Bahadur Postgraduate College, Pratapgarh, (Affiliated to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University Lecturer
    2004 - 2007

Education

  • Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University M Sc, Ph D
    1998 - 2005

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