Dr. Vijay Prakash Singh is an Assistant Professor of Botany at Ramabai Government Women PG College, Akbarpur Ambedkar, UP. He has previously worked as a research scholar with the Botanical Survey of India on the PAN Project and as a researcher on the AICOPTAX project funded by MoEF, New Delhi. Dr. Singh has published 21 papers on biodiversity and plant taxonomy in reputed journals and has presented numerous papers and lectures at national conferences.