M.Sc. (Botany) 1988, Ph.D (Botany - Plant Anatomy and Tissue culture) 1994

Anatomy & Pharmacognosy

18 years research experience in Plant Anatomy, Tissue culture and Pharmacognosy

Started her research work in 1988 at University of Calicut and completed Ph.D in 1994 in the area of Plant anatomy and tissue culture. After Ph.D she worked in the ICAR research institute, Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR) Calicut as SRF and then as Research Associate for 5 years. During the period 1999-2003 she worked as Scientist-B in a project funded by Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Source (MNES) at Biomass Research Centre, Department of Botany, University of Calicut, where she was doing the Biotechnological approaches for micropropagation and production of stress-tolerant lines of tree species. In addition, she worked as guest lecturer and resource person in Department of Botany and Plantation Development, University of Calicut and has been engaged in teaching Plant Anatomy and Biotechnology for P.G. Students. At present she is working as Senior scientist and heading the Pharmacognosy and Anatomy division, engaged in Anatomical standardization of medicinal plants using digitized anatomical markers for the scientific identification, standardization and quality control of medicinal plants used in Ayurveda and other traditional systems of medicine. During her 18 years research period she has 56 research papers, in national and International journal to her credit. She has submitted 12 technical reports and produced 9 dissertations. She is the recognized research guide for Plant Science under Kannur University and a Member of PG Board of Examinations for Plantation Development of Calicut University.

1. Quality standardization of Indian Medicinal Plants and preparation of monograph funded by ICMR, Govt. of India
2. Pharmacognostic & Phytochemical studies for Developing markers for standardization and quality control of certain Ayurvedic raw drugs funded by KSCSTE, Govt. of Kerala
3. Characterisation of Ayurvedic medicinal plants conserved in the field gene bank funded by DBT, Govt. of India

National level

1. JS Pruthi Award for he best research paper for the year 1999

State level

1. Best over all research poster award for the year 2006 from the Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment
2. Best research poster award in Health Sciences for the 18th Kerala Science Congress 2006 from the Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment
3. Best research poster award on Health Science for the 17th Kerala Science Congress 2005 from the Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment

Guidance to PG students: Guided the project work of 15 Post Graduate students of Life Sciences, Plantation Development and Plant Sciences of various universities

Ph. D guideship in Plant Sciences (Kannur University)

1. Guiding 4 Ph. D students

Membership in Societies

1. International Association of plant Anatomists
2. Member of International Association for Plant Morphologists
3. Member of international society for Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology

Total Publications

56 research papers

Selected Publications

1

Rema Shree A.B. & Indira Balachandran 2006. Anatomy and histochemistry of four species of Curcuma. Phytomorphology, 56 (1&2) pp. 1-8.

2

Rema Shree A.B., K.V. Thushar & Indira Balachandran 2006. Micromorphological studies on tree turmeric (Coscinium fenestratum (Gaertn.) Colebr. leaf - A critically endangered medicinal plant. Phytomorphology, 56 (1&2) pp. 1-7.

3

Rema Shree A.B., Jayanthi A, Indira Balachandran 2005. Anatomy of Coscinium fenestratum – a critically endangered medicinal plant. Phytomorphology, Vol. 55 Nos. (3&4) pp. 249-258.

4

Rema Shree A.B., A. Jayanthi, Sudhakar Raja, Unnikrishnan K.P and Indira Balachandran 2005. Anatomical and chemical studies on roots of Aegle marmelos and Atalantia monophylla. J.  Tropical Medicinal Plants, Vol. 6 No. pp.123-131.

5

Rema Shree A.B. 2004. Ontogeny of oil cell and ducts in Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.). Phytomorphology, 55(1).

6

Rema Shree A.B., S. Sudhakar Raja, A. Jayanthi, Unnikrishnan K.P. & Indira Balachandran 2004. Comparative anatomical and phytochemical markers to identify genuine raw drug asoka from its common adulterant. Aryavaidyan, Vol. XIX, No.1. pp. 13-24.

7

Rema Shree A.B., Varghese Thomas, N. Neelakandan, E. Nabeesa & S. Nandakumar 2003. Plant regeneration through callus culture in Syzygium cumini. Plant Cell Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, 4(3&4)197-98.

8

Rema Shree A.B., K.K. Sherlija, K. Unnikrishnan & P.N. Ravindran 1997. Histological studies on ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.). Phytomorphology, 47(1) 67-75.

9

Rema Shree A.B. and Molly Hariharan & K. Unnikrishnan 1997. In vitro organogenesis in Aristolochia indica L. Phytomorphology, 47(2) 161-165.

10

Rema Shree A.B., Molly Hariharan & K. Unnikrishnan 1994. Micropropagation of Aristolochia bracteolata Lam. A medicinal plant. Phytomorphology, 44:247-252.