D.K. Agrawala

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Is taxonomic species concept doing justice to the definition of species?

Speciation is not an overnight process and leaves many intermediates between the two extremes. Taxonomists failed to address these variations or do not have material to link the variations or not...

04 December 2021 2,811 6 View

Is it true that Journals with high impact factor always publish high quality papers or the papers in low or no impact factor are of lesser quality?

I have witnessed this perception among the scientists, academicians and interview panel members along with the employers. But at the same time seen many raw quality publications in high impact...

01 June 2021 4,161 21 View

Is there any scientific threshold for delimiting a plant genus or the taxa at or below the rank of genus? Is it dependent on peoples perception?

While practicing plant taxonomy since past two decades, I observed lot of inconsistency in delimiting the genera or lower ranked taxa. The weight of characters are not stable in different plant...

20 May 2021 5,753 16 View

Is it mandatory that all the plant genera should be monophyletic? Are all the known genera monophyletic? What if there are poly- or paraphyletic ones?

While working with taxonomy of Indian Orchids in past two decades, I have witnessed many merger and splitting of genera mostly as a result of phylogenetic analysis mostly based on molecular...

27 April 2021 3,518 23 View