Vineet Soni
Vineet Soni is a plant biotechnologist and conservatist, and the founder of Save Guggul Movement, a community-based conservation effort to conserve threatened plant species.[1],[2]
Soni specializes in plant stress physiology and photosynthesis research. He obtained his doctorate in India in 2005 and performed postdoctoral work at the University of Geneva in 2007. During his doctorate research, he obtained various research fellowships. Soni has published many research papers on plant photosynthesis and conservation biology. He is the member of three International Union for Conservation of Nature commissions: the Species Survival Commission, the World Commission for Protected Areas, and the Commission on Education and Communication.
Awards and recognitions
- Visiting Research Scientist at CEA, Paris (2011)
- Interviewed by UNESCO (France) in its journal -A World of Science (2010)[3]
- Elected "Fellow of Botanical Society" (2009)
- Profiled as ‘Earth Mover’ by IUCN (2008)[4]
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by University of Geneva, Switzerland (2007)
- BioRad Travel Grant to visit European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany (2005)
- Short visiting fellowship by University of Geneva, Switzerland (2004)
Selected publications
- Ulrich Heber, Vineet Soni and R. J. Strasser (2010) “Photoprotection of reaction centers: thermal dissipation of absorbed light energy vs. charge separation in lichens”. Physiologia Plantarum.[5]
- Vineet Soni, P.L. Swarnkar, Vibha Tyagi and L.K.Pareek (2010) “Variation in E- and Z- guggulsterones of Commiphora wightii”. South African Journal of Botany, 76, (3): 421-424.[6]
- Vineet Soni (2010)”Efficacy of in vitro tissue culture versus stem cuttings for propagation of Commiphora wightii in Rajasthan, India”. Conservation Evidence, 7: 91-93.[7]
- Vineet Soni (2010)”Conservation of Commiphora wightii, an endangered medicinal shrub, through propagation and planting, and education awareness programs in the Aravali Hills of Rajasthan, India”, Conservation Evidence, 7: 27-31.[8]
- Vineet Soni (2009) “Threatened wild medicinal plants: who cares?”. Current Science, 96, (7): 875.[9]
- Vineet Soni and Reto J Strasser (2008) “Survival strategies can not be devised, they do exist already” Proceedings of 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis held at Glasgow, Scotland (Editors: J. F. Allen, E. Gantt, J.H. Golbeck and B. Osmond), Springer Netherlands; 1567-1572.[10]
- Vineet Soni and P.L. Swarnkar (2006) “Conservation strategies for Commiphora wightii- an important medicinal plant species” Medicinal Plant Conservation: 12; 40-42.[11]
- Vineet Soni (2006) “Biodiversity loss linked to poverty”. Current Science, 91, (2): 148.[12]
References
- ^ People for plants http://www.iucn.org/iyb/iucn_action_22/around_the_world/?4702/People-for-plants
- ^ Education and Awareness in the 'Save Guggul Movement' http://www.iucn.org/news_homepage/news_by_date/2010_news/july_2010/?5797/cec-save-guggul-movement
- ^ Why Vineet Soni in bent on saving the guggul plants, UNESCO`s A World of Science http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001884/188440e.pdf
- ^ IUCN Earth Movers
- ^ USA (2011-10-03). "Photoprotection of reaction centers: thermal d... [Physiol Plant. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI". Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
- ^ "Variation in E- and Z-guggulsterones of Commiphora wightii 10.1016/j.sajb.2009.10.004 : South African Journal of Botany". ScienceDirect.com. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
- ^ http://www.conservationevidence.com/download.php?id=2322
- ^ http://www.conservationevidence.com/download.php?id=2313
- ^ http://cs-test.ias.ac.in/cs/Downloads/article_43931.pdf
- ^ "Abstract" (PDF). SpringerLink. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
- ^ "MPC12_final.qxd" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-12.
- ^ http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/jul252006/148.pdf