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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Professor K.G. Ramawat (born in 1952) received his M.Sc. (1974) and Ph.D. (1978, Plant Biotechnology) from the University of Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India and became a faculty member in January of 1979. He joined M.L. Sukhadia University as an Associate Professor in 1991 and became a Professor in 2001. He served as Head of the Department of Botany (2001–2004), was in charge of the Department of Biotechnology (2003–2004), was a member of the task force on medicinal and aromatic plants at the Department of Biotechnology (Government of India, New Delhi; 2002–2005), and was a coordinator of the UGC-DRS and DST-FIST programs (2002–2007). He did his postdoctoral study at the University of Tours, France (1983–85) and subsequently worked as visiting professor at the University of Tours (1991) and University of Bordeaux 2, France (1995, 1999, 2003, 2006). He visited Poland under the auspices of an INSA-PAN academic exchange program (2005). He has published more than 100 research papers and review articles in reputed journals and books. He has edited two books on the biotechnology of secondary metabolites and of medicinal plants (Scientific Publishers, Enfield, USA). Professor Ramawat has completed several major research projects from UGC, CSIR, ICAR, DBT, and DST, and has supervised the doctoral theses of 16 students. He has been a member of the Plant Tissue Culture Association of India since 1991.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Herbal Drugs: Ethnomedicine to Modern Medicine
Editors: K.G. Ramawat
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79116-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-79115-7Published: 19 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09798-0Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-79116-4Published: 25 November 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 402
Topics: Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology/Toxicology, History of Medicine, Plant Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Complementary & Alternative Medicine