Rate My Professor Laxuman Sharma

Prof. Laxuman Sharma is a Professor in the Department of Horticulture at the School of Life Sciences, Central University of Sikkim, where he joined on June 23, 2014. He currently serves as the Dean of the School of Life Sciences. Sharma holds a B.Sc. in Horticulture with First Class First, an M.Sc. in Horticulture with First Class, and a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. His research specializations and academic interests include Organic and Hill Horticulture, Fruit Science, and Microbial Biotechnology. He has guided two Ph.D. students to completion, has five registered under his supervision, and has overseen more than ten M.Sc. dissertations.

Prof. Sharma has an impressive publication record comprising 55 papers in refereed journals, seven book chapters, and twenty extension bulletins, along with leading ten research projects. Key publications encompass Sherpa MT et al. (2021), Isolation, characterization, and evaluation of native rhizobacterial consortia developed from the rhizosphere of rice grown in organic state Sikkim, India, and their effect on plant growth, Frontiers in Microbiology; Panneerselvam P et al. (2021), Understanding rice growth-promoting potential of Enterobacter spp. isolated from long-term organic farming soil in India through a supervised learning approach, Current Research in Microbial Sciences; Panneerselvam P et al. (2019), Antagonistic and plant growth promoting novel Bacillus species from long term organic farming soils from Sikkim, India, 3 Biotech; Pradhan A et al. (2019), Characterization of pectin extracted from Citrus reticulata L. Blanco collected from different altitudes of Sikkim Himalaya, Journal of Applied and Natural Science; and Singh AK et al. (2019), Biomedical applications of microbially engineered polyhydroxyalkanoates: An insight into recent advances, bottlenecks, and solutions, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Earlier works include Optimization of cultural and nutritional conditions for accumulation of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (2006) and Accumulation of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate in Nostoc muscorum: regulation by pH, light–dark cycles, N and P status and carbon sources (2005). His research has accumulated over 1,750 citations on Google Scholar, demonstrating significant influence in microbial biotechnology, organic farming, and horticultural sciences in the Himalayan context.