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Aruna Weerasooriya received his bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka and a doctoral degree in Plant Systematics from the University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Prof. Richard M. K. Saunders. He also received postgraduate training in collection-based plant systematics research, herbarium management, germplasm conservation, and botanic garden management from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew England, and Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh Scotland. His postdoctoral research at the University of Missouri-St. Louis was mainly focused on molecular systematics in flowering plants and then on medicinal plant systematics at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). Later he was appointed as a senior research scientist in the National Center for Natural Products Research where he developed the US largest living medicinal plant collection at the Maynard W Quimby Medicinal Plant Garden. Dr. Weerasooriya has been involved in numerous taxonomic revisions in the Asian region, exclusively in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos discovering many new plant species to the science. His contribution to the plant discoveries in Thailand was much-admired by their government and honored him with a postage stamp. Subsequently, British Museum also named a new lichen species Allographa weerasooriyana, appreciating his contribution towards plant science research in the Asian region. He is an elected Fellow of the esteemed Linnean Society of London, the world’s oldest biological society that embraces biological diversity, ecology, and evolution. Dr. Weerasooriya also leads one of the dynamic Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa) research programs in the state of Texas at the Cooperative Agriculture Research Center, College of Agriculture & Human Sciences.
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Obesitiesno. 1 (2023): 13-35
Apolonia A. Obiloma,Wenceslaus C. Madu,Godson O. Osuji,Aruna D. Weerasooriya,Peter A. Y. Ampim,Laura Carson,Aloysius Nwabugo Maduforo, Patrick C. Ogbonna
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American journal of plant sciencesno. 04 (2019): 572-577
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