• Monographic studies on the Himalayan genera Pedicularis (Scrophulariaceae), Aconitum, Delphinium, Consolida, Anemone (Ranunculaceae), Gentiana (Gentianaceae), Corydalis (Fumariaceae), Saxifraga (Saxifragaceae), Silene (Caryophyllaceae) and family Poaceae, etc. including molecular phylogenetics. Resolution of several taxonomic complexes and typification of 76 taxa have been done.


• Floristic studies on unexplored and inaccessible core regions of Indian Himalayas like, Pangi Valley (Trans–Himalaya), Pindari Valley, Milam Valley, Darma Valley and North East India (Manipur and Nagaland) and also from different phytogeographic zones and protected areas (Bhimbetka WHS, KWLS, GWLS).


• Assessment of Impact of climate change on the altitudinal distribution and eco-physiological traits of biodiversity along the different altitudinal gradients in Indian Himalayan Region.


• Taxonomic studies on the family Poaceae to assess the grass diversity and conservation status from western Himalaya and to provide comprehensive information on the current status of economically important grass family.


• Ex-situ conservation of 150 threatened taxa of Orchids, Cycas, Zingibers, etc. from North East India in CSIR-NBRI Botanic Garden. Critically endangered medicinal plants have been raised through in-vitro propagation.


• Identification of elite chemotypes in the critically endangered and highly medicinal plants Aconitum, Berberis, Dioscorea and Trillium govanianum, to give newer insights for their conservation management and sustainable utilization.


• Water quality monitoring of river Ganga from Gomukh to Hooghly, under National Mission on Clean Ganga (NMCG).


• Established a World Class Multi-purpose Botanical Garden with herbarium in Ballarpur Tehsil of Chandrapur district of Maharashtra.


• Identification of 14 new sacred groves in Western Himalaya having relict vegetation and the last refugia of threatened plants conserved on religious beliefs.


• Enrichment of plant resources from different phytogeographic zones of India, Management and Curation of Internationally recognized CSIR-NBRI Herbarium (National Repository for Indian Flora) for maximum R & D output.

New plant species discovered:

• Aconitum arunii Agnihotri, D.Husain & Husain


• Agrostris barikii P.Agnihotri & D. Prasad


• Bromus husainii P.Agnihotri & R.Yadav


• Bromus kashmiriana P.Agnihotri & R.Yadav


• Bupleurum milamense P.Agnihotri & K.Yadav


• Calamogrostis nandadeviensis P.Agnihotri & D. Prasad


• Delphinium lahulensis Agnihotri, D.Husain & Husain


• Gentianella tumailica Shabir, Agnihotri, Tiwari & Husain


• Gentianella pringlei Shabir, Agnihotri, Tiwari & Husain


• Heterostemma barikiana Agnihotri, D. Husain, P. Katiyar, D.B. Sahoo, M. Rodda & T. Husain


• Pedicularis pectinata subsp. pectinata var. roseus Agnihotri & Husain


• Pedicularis husainiana Agnihotri, D.Husain, Sahoo & Barik


• Poa pindariensis P.Agnihotri, S.Sharma & D.Prasad


• Poa sachensis P.Agnihotri, S.Sharma and D.Prasad


• Rottboellia husainii P.Agnihotri & S.Tripathi


• Trisetopsis pirpanjalensis D. Prasad & P. Agnihotri


• Tzveleviochloa yadavii D. Prasad & P. Agnihotri

New records for India:

• Hoya pandurata Tsiang (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae)


• Gentiana aperta Maxim. (Gentianaceae)


• Aconitum fletcherianum G.Taylor (Ranunculaceae)


• Agrostis clavata Trin. (Poaceae)


• Elymus nepalensis (Melderis) Melderis (Poaceae)


• Agrostis dshungarica (Tzvelev) Tzvelev (Poaceae)


• Poa diaphora var. alpina (Poaceae)

New Variety released:

• ‘NAMOH-108’ new variety of Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. having 108 petals and longest flowering period has been invented.

1. Books:
   1. T. Husain, A. Garg & Priyanka Agnihotri. 2010. Genus Pedicularis L. (Scrophulariaceae) in India (A revisionary study). Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun, India.
   
   
   2. Priyanka Agnihotri & J.S. Khuraijam. 2018. Angiosperm Systematics: Recent Trends and Emerging Issues. M/s Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun, India. ISBN: 978-81-211-0981-9.
   
   
   3. T.S. Rana, Priyanka Agnihotri & K.M. Prabhukumar. 2023. Plant resources of Uttar Pradesh - A checklist. CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, ISBN: 9788193804339.
   
   
2. Research Papers Published in Peer Reviewed National & International Journals:
   1. Priyanka Agnihotri, M. Semwal, H. Singh, T. Husain. 2013. A Glimpse of Vegetation and Threatened Medicinal Plant Diversity of Govind Wildlife Sanctuary, Garhwal Himalaya. J. Biodiversity Management & Forestry. 2:4. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2327-4417.1000116. (IF-1.85)
   
   
   2. H. Singh, Tariq Husain and Priyanka Agnihotri, P.C. Pande and S. Khatoon. 2014. An Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used in sacred groves of Kumaon Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 154: 98-108. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2014.03.026i (IF-5.98)
   
   
   3. Priyanka Agnihotri, D. Husain and T. Husain. 2014. A new species of the genus Delphinium (Ranunculaceae) from Lahul valley of Himachal Pradesh, India. Phytotaxa. 186 (5)- 287-291. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.186.5.6. (IF-1.79)
   
   
   4. Priyanka Agnihotri, D.Husain and T. Husain. 2015. Lectotypification of the name Aconitum naviculare (Ranunculaceae). Phytotaxa. 218 (2): 195-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.218.2.12. (IF-1.79)
   
   
   5. Priyanka Agnihotri, D.Husain, H. Singh and T. Husain. 2016. Revisiting the Delphinium viscosum Hook. F. & Thoms. (Ranunculaceae) complex in Himalaya. Taiwania 61 (1):16-20.
   
   
   6. D. Husain, P. Katiyar, Priyanka Agnihotri & T. Husain. 2016. (199–201) Proposals to add the term lectoparatype to the Code. Taxon 65(2): 410-411. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12705/652.39. (IF-3.470)
   
   
   7. D. Husain, P. Katiyar, Priyanka Agnihotri & T. Husain. 2016. (305–307) Three more proposals on typification and the definition of a gathering. Taxon 65(4): 898-899. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12705/654.30 (IF-3.470)
   
   
   8. Priyanka Agnihotri, D.Husain and T. Husain. 2016. Aconite from Sikkim Himalaya, India. Current Science. 111 (6): 984-985. (IF-1.102)
   
   
   9. Priyanka Agnihotri, D.Husain, P. Katiyar and T. Husain. 2016. Notes on the typification of four Himalayan Aconites. Kew Bull. 71: 52. doi:10.1007/s12225-016-9666-1. (IF-0.9)
   
   
   10. Priyanka Agnihotri, T.Husain, P. A. Shirke, O. P. Sidhu, H. Singh, V. Dixit, A. A. Khuroo, D.V. Amla and C. S. Nautiyal. 2017. Climate change-driven shifts in elevation and ecophysiological traits of Himalayan plants during the past century. Current Science. 112 (3): 595-601. (IF-1.102)
   
   
   11. Priyanka Agnihotri, D. Husain, D.Sahoo, S.K. Barik. 2018. A new species and typification in Pedicularis series Curvipes (Orobanchaceae). Phytotaxa. 371 (4): 260–266. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.371.4.3 (IF-1.79)
   
   
   12. Priyanka Agnihotri, D. Husain, P. Katiyar, D.B. Sahoo, M. Rodda & T. Husain. 2019. Heterostemma barikiana (Apocyanceae, Asclepiadoideae), a new species from India, Myanmar and Thailand. Phytotaxa. 419 (2): 232–238. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.419.2.11 (IF-1.79)
   
   
   13. D. Husain, S. K. Barik, A. K. Srivastava, P. Katiyar, D.B. Sahoo, T. Husain & Priyanka Agnihotri. 2020. Nomenclature and typification of Swertia angustifolia Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don (Gentianaceae), its infraspecific taxa and synonyms. Taxon 69(5): 1085-1091 DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12276. (IF-3.470)
   
   
   14. R.Waris, S. Tripathi, A.C.Shukla & Priyanka Agnihotri. 2021. An overview of the genus Dioscorea L. (Dioscoreaceae) in India. The Plant Science Today 8(1): 72-78 (IF-0.80)
   
   
   15. S.Tripathi, Priyanka Agnihotri, S. Jaiswal, R. Yadav, D. Prasad, Vaisnow V. & T.Husain. 2020. Phytogeographical Assessment of Family Poaceae Barnhart in Western Himalaya, India. J Biodivers Manage Forestry 9(6):1-6. (IF-1.85)
   
   
   16. D. Prasad, R. Yadav, S. Jaiswal, S.Tripathi & Priyanka Agnihotri. 2021. Agrostis barikii (Poaceae: Agrostidinae), a new grass species from Western Himalaya, India. Phytotaxa 494 (1): 145–150. doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.494.1.11. (IF-1.79)
   
   
   17. D. Prasad, S. Jaiswal, S. Tripathi, R. Yadav and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2021. Calamagrostis nandadeviensis (Poaceae, Agrostidinae), a new grass species from India. Phytotaxa 505 (2): 221-228. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.505.2.8. (IF-1.79)
   
   
   18. R. Yadav, D. Prasad, S. Tripathi, S. Jaiswal and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2021. Bromus husainii (Poaceae:Bromeae), a new species from Valley of Flowers National Park, Uttarakhand, India. Phytotaxa 516 (1): 073-082. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.516.1.5. (IF-1.79)
   
   
   19. D. Prasad, S. Tripathi, S. Jaiswal, R. Yadav and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2021. Trisetopsis pirpanjalensis and Tzveleviochloa yadavii (Poaceae: Aveninae), two new oat-like perennial grass species from India. Nordic Journal of Botany. 39 (11): 1-10. doi: 10.1111/njb.03291. (IF-0.9)
   
   
   20. R. Waris, M. Arif, M. Srivastava, A.C.Shukla and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2022. Comparative Analysis of Chemical Attributes and Antioxidant Activity of Dioscorea bulbifera L. and D. deltoidea Wall. ex Griseb. International Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemical Research 14(1):32-39. (IF-1.5)
   
   
   21. S. Sharma, D. Prasad, R. Yadav, S. Jaiswal, S. Tiwari and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2022. Poa pindariensis, a new species of Poa subg. Stenopoa (Poaceae, Poeae) from Western Himalaya, India. Nordic Journal of Botany. 1-9. doi: 10.1111/njb.03748 (IF-0.9)
   
   
   22. D. Prasad, R. Kumar, S. Jaiswal, R. Yadav, S.Tiwari and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2022. An update on the taxonomy of Calamagrostis nagarum (Bor) G.Singh and its allies (Poaceae, Agrostidinae): morphometrics and micro-morphology. PhytoKeys 212: 135–155. (IF-1.635)
   
   
   23. R.Yadav, D. Prasad, S. Jaiswal, S. Tripathi, V.K. Madhukar and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2022. Bromus kashmirensis (Poaceae), a new species from Kashmir Himalaya, India. Nordic Journal of Botany. 1-9. doi: 10.1111/njb.03727 (IF-0.9)
   
   
   24. P. Dey, R. Kumar, K. Yadav, S.Tripathi and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2023. Documentation of ethnomedicinal plants for the treatment of skin diseases from Pangi valley, Western Himalaya. Plant Science Today. Vol 10(2): 217–222. https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2101 (IF-0.80)
   
   
   25. R.Yadav, Priyanka Agnihotri, V.K. Madhukar and T.Husain. 2023. Elymus nepalensis (Poaceae, Triticeae): A rediscovery, lectotypification, and new geographic record from India. Feddes Repertorium. 1–5. DOI: 10.1002/fedr.202200044 (IF-0.9)
   
   
   26. P. Rajput, S. Tripathi and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2023. Lectotypification of Three Names in Anemonastrum (Ranunculaceae) of India. J. Jap. Bot. 98(1): 49-54.
   
   
   27. S. Sharma, D.Prasad, S. Jaiswal and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2023. New species and new record of the genus Poa L. (Poaceae, Pooideae, Poeae) from India. Nordic Journal of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04179 (IF-0.9)
   
   
   28. D.Prasad, R. Yadav, S. Sharma, S. Jaiswal and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2024. A New Record of Agrostis clavata (Poaceae) for the Indian Flora. J. Jap. Bot. 99(1): 54–57. doi: https://doi.org/10.51033/jjapbot.ID0123
   
   
   29. S. Jaiswal, D. Prasad, R. Yadav, S. Sharma, V.K. Madhukar and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2024. Lectotypification of two names in Urochloa P.Beauv (Poaceae: Paniceae). Plant Science Today. 11(2) pp. 589–593. https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.3042. (IF-0.80)
   
   
   30. K.Yadav, S.K.Singh, R.Kumar, Versha, P.Dey, and Priyanka Agnihotri. 2024. Bupleurum milamense, a new species of Apiaceae from Milam Valley, Western Himalaya, India. Nordic Journal of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04244 (IF-0.9)
   
   

• Ms. Rekha Yadav, Senior Research Fellow


• Mr. Dileshwar Prasad, Senior Research Fellow


• Mr. Shubham Jaiswal, Senior Research Fellow


• Mr. Ravindra Kumar, Senior Research Fellow


• Ms. Poushali Dey, Senior Research Fellow


• Ms. Khushboo Yadav, Senior Research Fellow


• Ms. Monika Singh, Senior Research Fellow


• Ms. Versha, Senior Research Fellow


• Ms. Smita Tewari, Junior Research Fellow


• Ms. Sapna, Junior Research Fellow


• Ms. Shweta, Junior Research Fellow


• Dr. Fazal Husain, Project Associate

Plant Diversity, Systematics and Herbarium Division
CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow-226001
Phone no.: 0522-2297827
Email: p.agnihotri@nbri.res.in, priyagni_2006@yahoo.co.in