Dalip Kumar Upreti

Dalip Kumar Upreti (Dr.D.K.Upreti) (born 26 January 1958 in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand, Formerly Uttar Pradesh, India) is an Indian lichenologist.[1] He is a chief scientist at the herbarium division of the CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow.

Research

He started his career in 1978 at Lucknow University supervised by Dharani Dhar Awasthi, Father of Indian Lichenology. After earning his PhD, he worked as a Research Associate and in 1988, he joined CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute as Scientist-B and leading the Lichen Lab. During this tenure, he published more than 60 research articles (including book chapters). He revised the lichen family Cladoniaceae during his doctoral degree. He has described 98 novel species.[1] He has produced more than 35 PhD students, his students have worked in all the aspects of lichens with 400 research articles. He has revised the lichen families such as Pyrenulaceae, Graphidaceae, Teloschistaceae, Lecanoraceae, Parmeliaceae, Usneaceae, etc. Recently, Dr. Upreti received FNASc during the year 2013 for his notable service in the field of Lichenology.[2] Pradeep Kumar Divakar is his first PhD student, who is one of the world's renowned Lichenologists. Dr.Upreti is serving as president of Indian Lichenological Society.[3]

The Janaki Ammal National Award in Plant Taxonomy for the year 2015 was given to Dr. Dalip Kumar Upreti for his work over the last three decades, leading to the establishment of more than 100 new species of lichen to the world and more than 200 species as new records to the lichen flora of India.[4] He has also received Prof. Bashir Ahmad Razi Medal -2006) of Association for Plant Taxonomy (APT).[5]

There are 5 lichen species which are named after him in his honor. Parmotrema upretii Divakar,[6] Myelochroa upretii Divakar & Elix,[7] Lecanora upretii Papong, Nayaka & Lumbsch,[8] Graphis upretii S.Joshi & Hur,[9] Heterodermia upretii Y.Joshi, S.Upadhyay & K.Chandra.[10]

Books coauthored/edited

References

  1. 1 2 ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity: Dr. D.K. Upreti (accessed 30 March 2014)
  2. ↑ http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=U
  3. ↑ http://indianlichenology.com/OfficeBearers.aspx
  4. ↑ http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=122318
  5. ↑ http://www.csir.res.in/WebPages/Achievements/awards111214/awards_0506.pdf
  6. ↑ http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=955540
  7. ↑ sv:Myelochroa upretii
  8. ↑ http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2012/f/p00068p028f.pdf
  9. ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4004942/
  10. ↑ http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.175.2.7
  11. ↑ http://www.springer.com/us/book/9788132215028
  12. ↑ http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781461487357
  13. ↑ http://www.springer.com/in/book/9788132221807
  14. ↑ https://www.lap-publishing.com/catalog/details//store/gb/book/978-3-659-37886-7/lichens-flora-of-kumaun-himalaya
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