Dr.Sreekumar
Position: Director(i/c),HoD and Senior Principal Scientist
Qualifications
Specialization
About Me
Projects
➤ Landscaping and gardening in the G.V. Raja sports school campus, sponsored by Directorate of Sports & Youth Affairs, Govt. of Kerala Rs. 50 lakhs ( Ongoing).
➤ Establishment of STEC-JNTBGRI as a nodal Centre for multidisciplinary research, production and supply of quality seeds, large scale cultivation of high value ornamental plants and human resource development, plan project sponsored by KSCSTE-JNTBGRI, Govt. of Kerala Rs. (Ongoing).
➤ Digitization of botanical herbarium of Department of Botany, University of Kerala, Sponsored by University of Kerala Rs. 10.00 lakhs Bioinformatics Sub-DIC, sponsored by DBT, Govt. of India Rs. 230.66 lakh. (Completed).
➤ BTISNET new web site development and integration /interlinking of bioinformatics resources developed by BTIS Centres, sponsored by DBT, Govt. of India Rs. 5.00 lakh ( Completed).
Publications
✤ Sreekumar S., Seeni S. and Pushpangadan P. (2000). Micropropagation of Hemidesmus indicus for cultivation and production of 2-hydroxy 4-methoxy benzaldehyde. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, Vol. 62: 211–218.
✤ Sreekumar S., Seeni S. and Pushpangadan P. (1998). Production of 2-hydroxy 4-methoxy benzaldehyde using root cultures of Hemidesmus indicus, Biotechnology Letters, 20 (7) 631-635. ✤ Sreekumar S., Biju C.K., Hari Sankar and Krishnan P.N. (2007). LitFriend: A software package for personalized management of bibliographic information and its citation. Current Science, Vol. 93 (4): 456-458.
✤ Goh W L, S Sungkaew, A Teerawatananon, D Ohrnberger, E A Widjaja, K K Sabu, B Gopakumar, K C Koshy, N-H Xia, K M Wong (2020). The phylogenetic position and taxonomic status of the Southeast and South Asian bamboo genera Neohouzeaua and Ochlandra (Poaceae: Bambusoideae). Phytotaxa 472 (2): 107–122. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.472.2.2
Research Scholar
Work: Validation of the efficacy of anti-tuberculosis activity in selected nutraceutical plants through in silico and in vitro screening methods.
Work : Phytochemical profiling and pharmacological investigation in Plectranthus vettiveroides (Jacob) N.P. Singh & B.D. Sharma
Work: In silico and in vitro evaluation of anti-SARS-CoV2 activity in selected plant derived nutraceuticals
Work: Screening of phytochemicals and optimization of leads with multi-target activity against cobra venom
Work: Evaluation of phytochemicals from selected Medicinal plants of Kerala for Anti-Dengue Drug candidates