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Name : Dr. Sumit Singh
Designation : Scientist
Qualification : Ph.D (Botany), CSIR-IIIM, Jammu.
Contact Details : Agro-Technology and Rural Development Division, ARDD, CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat-785001, Assam, India
Email id : sumitsingh.neist.res.in; ssumitthakur14@gmail.com

Research Interest
  • Plant Taxonomy of Himalayan flora, Ethnobotany, ecological studies of Himalayan region, conservation of rare and endangered high altitude medicinal plants, Pollen diversity and analysis.
Book Chapters
  • Sumit Singh, B Singh (2021). Folklore Knowledge of People on medicinal plants growing in Bani Valley of District Kathua, J&K Province of Western Himalaya. pp 171-195. In: Sharma YP & Singh B (Eds.) Human-Plant Relations and Future Drug Discovery. New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, India. ISBN: 978-9-38-954797-9 (National).
    Sumit Singh, B Singh (2019). Indian rhododendrons and their value addition: revision and review; pp.293-316. In: Singh B (Eds.), Plants for Commercial Values. Jointly published by CRC Press Taylor & Francis, UK, and New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, India. ISBN: 978-0-36-781936-1 (CRC Press), CAT# K458058 (International).
    B Singh, B Singh, Sumit Singh, R Bhanwaria, S Chandra (2018). Biological spectrum and floral diversity of western Himalaya-a case study of Nandini wildlife sanctuary in J&K State” pp. 589-605; In: Agnihotri P and Khuraijam JS (Eds.), Angiosperm Systematic: Recent Trends and Emerging Issues. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun, India. ISBN: 978-8-12-110981-9.
    B Singh, O Surmal, B Singh, Sumit Singh, MN Bhat, MA Chowdhary, Sneha and M Shahnawaz (2021). Folklore plants used in Tibetan mountain-based Sowa-Rigpa system of food and medicine: a close look on plant-people perception to herbal cure; pp 1-43. In: Singh B & Sharma YP (Eds.) Plants for Novel Drug Molecules-Ethnobotany to Ethnopharmacology. New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, India. ISBN: 978-9-38-957194-3 (National).
    MN Bhatt, B Singh, MA Chowdhary, Sumit Singh, O Surmal, R Bhanwaria and B Singh (2020). Medicinal plants of District Kupwara are used to treat human diseases and associated biological functions. In: B Singh (Eds.) Botanical Leads for Drug Discovery. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., Singapore. ISBN: 978-9-81-155916-7 (International).
    K Koul, B Singh, MK Verma, Sumit Singh, P Goyal, G Yadav, B Singh, S Kitchlu and R Anand (2019). Crop-weather interactions, phytochemistry, pharmacology and evaluation of the phenological models for Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench under temperate and subtropical environments; pp.365-382. In: Singh B (Eds.) Plants for Human Survival and Medicine. Jointly published by CRC Press Taylor & Francis, UK, and New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, India. ISBN: 978-0-36-781894-4 (CRC Press), CAT# K455460 (International).

List of Publications (Most Recent Ten)
  • Sumit Singh, O Surmal, MN Bhatt, B Singh, B Singh and CM Musarella(2021). Fragmented Forest Patches in Indian Himalaya Preserves Unique Components of Biodiversity: Investigation on Floristic and Phytoclimate of Unexplored Bani Valley. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116063.
    Sumit Singh, Sneha and B Singh (2021). Pyrrosiasarthalensis(Polypodiaceae)- A new species from Bani Valley, Kathua District, J&K. Phytotaxa(International, SCI). https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.8.
    Sumit Singh and Taslima Sheikh (2021). Rediscovery of Popinjay, Stibochionanicea (Gray, 1846) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae) from Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. RevistaChilena de Entomologia (International, SCI). https://doi.org/10.35249/rche.47.3.21.07.
    Sumit Singh, O Surmal, MN Bhatt, D Adhikari, B Singh (2021). New Addition of Marseliaspecies to aquatic flora of India in Indo-Malayan realms: occurrence and reassessment of taxonomic notes. Bangladesh Journal of Taxonomy (International, SCI).
    Sumit Singh, B Singh, B Singh, and A Kishor (2021). Observations on traditional usage of plants in humans and animal’s health care and their chemical constituents from hills and valleys of Jammu province, Western Himalaya. Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources 12(1): 84-100.
    Sumit Singh, B Singh, B Singh, S Kitchlu and V Babu (2019). Assessment of ethnic traditional knowledge, biology, and chemistry of Lepidium didymum, a lesser-known wild plant of Western Himalaya. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B. Biological Sciences 89(3): 1087-1094. doi:10.1007/s40011-018-1027-4.
    Sumit Singh, Sumit and Gulshan Kumar (2023). Exploring the phytochemical and Pharmacological properties of stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica L.): A wild edible plant of Chamba district, Himachal Pradesh, India. Journal of Plant Science and Research 39(3): 145-154.
    A Kumar, Sumit Singh and H Singh (2024). A newly described Lomatogoniummadhmaheshwariansis is a synonym of Swertia alpina. Phytotaxa (International, SCI). Pre-Print.
    B Singh, B Singh, A Kishor, Sumit Singh, MN Bhat, O Surmal and CM Musarella(2020). Exploring plant-based ethnomedicine and quantitative ethnopharmacology in a protected area: Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants utilized by the population of Jasrota Hill in Western Himalaya, India. Sustainability 12(18):7526; Doi: https://doi.org/1 0.3390/su12187526.
    B Singh, Sumit Singh and B Singh (2018). New distribution records of the leopard plants LigulariaamplexicaulisDC. and Ligularia sibirica (L.) Cass. (Asteraceae) in the Indian Himalayas. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10(13):12854-12858.
    B Singh, Sumit Singh, Sneha, MN Bhat, O Surmal, A Dutta, R Bhanwaria(2018).Artemisia verlotiorumLamotte (Asteraceae): a new record for Bandipora district from Kashmir Himalaya. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 42 (1&2): 74-76.

Awards and Fellowship
  • Elected as a Fellow of The Linnean Society of London (FLS) at a meeting held on 27th June 2024 in London.
  • Member of the International Society of Ethnopharmacology (ISE), Italy.
  • Member of the Society for Ethnopharmacology (SFE-India), India.
  • Awarded Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi (July 2018 – August 2021).
  • Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi (July 2016 – August 2018).
  • Qualified NET-JRF examination in Life Sciences (All India Rank 73) was conducted by CSIR, India, in 2016.