Swati Tripathi,^1,* Anjum Farooqui,^1,** VeeruKant Singh,^2,*** Shilpi Singh,^3,**** Rup Kumar Roy<sup>3,*****

1</sup>aQuaternary Palynology Laboratory, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), Lucknow, Uttar P
²bCLSM & Raman Spectroscopy Laboratory, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), Lucknow, Utt
³cBotanic Garden, Floriculture and Landscape Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (NB

^*Swati Tripathi is currently working as a Scientist-C in the Quaternary Laboratory of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow. Her research interests include quaternary vegetation and climate change through pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs. She is an associate of the prestigious Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. She has 32 research papers published in peer reviewed journals.
^**Anjum Farooqui is affiliated to Quaternary Palynology Laboratory, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences. She has a research experience of about 25 years in the field of Quaternary climate and vegetation using pollen/spores, non-pollen forms such as phytolith and testate amoebae. She has to her credit about 90 publications in National and International Journals. She has extensive field experience in coastal areas and Western Ghats of India.
^***Veeru Kant Singh is presently working as a Scientist-D at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India. He is currently engaged in palaeobiological studies of Proterozoic sediments of the Indian subcontinent (Central India) to understand the Evolution and diversification of Proterozoic eukaryotes. He is actively engaged in working and functioning of the Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope (CLSM) and Laser-Raman Spectroscopy (LRS) instruments.
^****Shilpi Singh, Phd scholar in botany at the National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. Her Ph.D. work on the morphological, palynology and molecular studied on the Bougainvillea species and varieties. She is currently engage with the pharmacognosy studies of medicinal plants. Her field of specialiszation includes taxonomical studies of ornamental climbers, shrubs, trees etc.
^*****Rup Kumar Roy is currently working as a consultant in the CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. After PhD in Horticulture, he was appointed as a Scientist in the Botanic Garden, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. He received several awards in the floriculture field. He has about 90 research publications and 15 books to his credit.