Dr. Aluri Jacob Solomon Raju is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Andhra University. He was the visiting Professor of University of Colima, Mexico. He was a Scientists ' Pool officer (CSIR, New Delhi) from 1991-1994. He obtained his M.Sc. Botany in 1983 and PhD in 1987 from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He did his Post- doctoral research during 1989 to 1991 from the University of Akron, Ohio, USA. He has published more than 250 research papers and has participated and presented his papers at 50 National and 20 International conferences held in India and abroad. He is presently working on the reproductive biology of mangrove plants and endemic and endangered plant species in the Eastern Ghats forested and further he is also operating a DBT Multinational Network Project on Morphometry and Phylogeography of Honey Bees and Stingless Bees in India.