Dr Krishnamurthy Y L is a Professor of Applied Botany at Kuvempu University, where he has been engaged in teaching and research since 1996. He completed his MSc in Botany in 1991 and obtained his PhD in 1997 from the University of Mysore. His research focuses on the biodiversity and bioprospecting of fungal endophytes and the diversity and molecular phylogeny of leaf-colonizing lichens in the Western Ghats.
He has guided 15 PhD scholars and published over 75 research papers in national and international journals, along with articles in bulletins and book chapters. He has been involved in several research projects sanctioned by UGC, DBT, DST, MoEF, Government of India. In 2009, he conducted research on fungal endophytes of switchgrass at the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Oklahoma, USA, under a DBT Associateship. He has also presented his work at international conferences in the UK, Thailand, Malaysia, Germany, and Spain.
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Grass Flora of the Central Western Ghats
₹3,000.00Authors: Abhijit H U, Krishnamurthy Y L
This comprehensive flora presents 231 wild grass taxa and eight cultivated taxa across 95 genera, including seven bamboo taxa, from the central Western Ghats of Karnataka. Among these, one variety is newly described to science, four species are newly recorded for the flora of Karnataka, and one grass species has a new locality record. It serves as an updated resource for the district grass floras of this region.
The book provides detailed species descriptions, artificial dichotomous keys, phenology, and distribution information at the global, national, and state levels. It also includes information on habitat, habit, and sample collection areas for all species recorded in the study. The inclusion of 194 photo plates depicting dissected grasses, spikelets, various habitats, and four bamboo illustrations represents a key feature of this work.Interested readers may write to us at mup@manipal.edu about purchasing the book.
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