Journal Articles
Avik Ray. 2021. Biofortification – Associated Costs and Alternatives? Economic & Political Weekly August 2021 LVI No 35: 13-15
Avik Ray, Rajasri Ray. 2022. The leafy greens of India – their diversity, pattern of consumption, and overriding implication on food and nutrition security. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2022.2025987
Avik Ray. The darker side of agricultural intensification – the disappearance of autumn or aus rice, entry of HYVs, and implications in terms of environmental sustainability in an eastern state of India. (in Revision)
Avik Ray and Abhra Chakraborty. The edible biota in irrigated, deepwater, and rainfed rice field of Asia – a neglected treasure – for sustainable food system. Environment, Development and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01386-0
Avik Ray, Chakraborty D, Ghosh S. 2020. A Critical Evaluation Revealed the Proto-indica Model Rests on a Weaker Foundation and Has a Minimal Bearing on Rice Domestication. Ancient Asia. 2020 Nov 3;11
Rajasri Ray and Avik Ray (2020) Medicinal practices of sacred natural sites: a socio-religious approach for successful implementation of primary healthcare services. Ethnobotany Research & Applications 20:34, 1-46. doi: 10.32859/era.20.34.1-46,
Ray A, Ray R and Sreevidya EA (2020) How Many Wild Edible Plants Do We Eat—Their Diversity, Use, and Implications for Sustainable Food System: An Exploratory Analysis in India. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 4:56. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2020.00056
Chattopadhyay B, Garg KM, Ray R and Rheindt FE., 2019. Fluctuating fortunes: genomes and habitat reconstructions reveal global climate-mediated changes in bats’ genetic diversity. Proceedings of Royal Society B. 286: 20190304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0304
Civáň, P., Ali, S., Batista-Navarro, R., Drosou, K., Ihejieto, C., Chakraborty, D., Ray, A., Gladieux, P. and Brown, T.A., 2019. Origin of the aromatic group of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) traced to the Indian subcontinent. Genome biology and evolution, 11(3), pp.832-843.
Chakraborty, D. and Ray, A., 2019. Population genetics analyses of North-East Indian indigenous rice landraces revealed divergent history and alternate origin of aroma in aus group. Plant Genetic Resources, pp.1-11.
Svizzero, S., Ray, A. and Chakraborty, D., 2019. Awn Reduction and the Domestication of Asian Rice: A Syndrome or Crop Improvement Trait?. Economic Botany, pp.1-12.
Bakshi Madhurima, Ghosh Somdeep, Chakraborty Debarati, Hazra Sugata, and Chaudhuri Punarbasu. 2018. Assessment of potentially toxic metal (PTM) pollution in mangrove habitats using biochemical markers: A case study on Avicennia officinalis L. in and around Sundarban, India. Marine Pollution Bulletin 133 : 157–172
Ray Avik and Chakraborty Debarati. 2018. Shattering or not shattering: that is the question in domestication of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 65: 391-395
Ray Rajasri, Sreevidya EA, and Ramachandra TV. 2017. Functional importance of sacred forest patches in the altered landscape of Palakkad region, Kerala, India. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 33(6): 379-394.
Deb D, Li Bo, Chattopadhyay SK, and Ray Avik. 2017. Identification of an endangered tree as a new record of Cordia macleodii, with an update of Cordia in West Bengal, India, Webbia, DOI: 10.1080/00837792.2017.1415043
Chakraborty Debarati, Deb D, and Ray Avik. 2016. An analysis of variation of the aroma gene in rice (Oryza sativa L. subsp. indica Kato) landraces. Genetic resources and crop evolution 63(6): 953-959.
Ahmad B, Baider C, Bernardini B, Biffin E, Brambach F, Burslem D, Byng JW, Christenhusz M, Florens FBV, Lucas E, Ray Avik, Ray Rajasri, Smets E, Snow N, Strijk JS, Wilson PG, Syzygium Working Group. 2016. Syzygium (Myrtaceae): Monographing a taxonomic giant via 22 coordinated regional revisions. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1930v1
Ray Rajasri, Chandran MDS and Ramachandra, TV. 2015. Hydrological importance of sacred forest fragments in Central Western Ghats of India. Tropical Ecology 56(1): 87-99.
Ray Avik and Ray Rajasri. 2014. Rapid divergence of ecotypes of an invasive plant. AoB Plants, 6.
Ray Avik and Quader S. 2014. Genetic diversity and population structure of Lantana camara in India indicates multiple introductions and gene flow. Plant Biology, 16(3): 651-658.
Ray Avik, Deb D, Ray Rajasri and Chattopadhayay Balaji. 2013. Phenotypic characters of rice landraces reveal independent lineages of short-grain aromatic indica rice. AoB plants 5.
Ray Rajasri and Ramachandra TV. 2010. Small sacred groves in local landscape: are they really worthy for conservation? Current Science, 98(9): 1178-1180.
Bhattacharyya Rajasri, Asokan A, Bhattacharya P and Prasad R. 2009. The potential of certification for conservation and management of wild MAP resources. Biodiversity and conservation 18(13): 3441
Jaman H, Chakraborty Debarati and Saha P. 2009. A study of the thermodynamics and kinetics of copper adsorption using chemically modified rice husk. CLEAN–Soil, Air, Water 37(9): 704-711.
Bhattacharya P, Prasad R, Bhattacharyya Rajasri and Asokan A. 2008. Towards certification of wild medicinal and aromatic plants in four Indian states. Unasylva 230 (59): 35 – 44.
Bhattacharyya Rajasri, Bhattacharya S and Chaudhuri S. 2006. Conservation and documentation of the medicinal plant resources of India. Biodiversity and Conservation 15(8): 2705 – 2717
Book Chapters
Avik Ray. (In Press) Domestication, Cultivation, and Diversification of Crops in Shifting Cultivation Systems across the Highlands of India – A Cross-Cultural Investigation.. In: Farmer Innovations and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific. Cairns, M.F. (Ed.), Wallingford, UK: CAB International.
Ghosh Surajit , Nandy Subrata, Chakraborty Debarati, Kumar Raj, Kumar Vishal, Chattopadhyay Shourjomoy and Srivastava Parul. 2018. Assessment of Flood-Emanated Impediments to Kaziranga National Park Grassland Ecosystem—A Binocular Vision with Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, Chapter: 17, In: Geospatial applications for natural resources management, Chander Kumar Singh (Ed.), Publisher: CRC Press, pp.275-290.
Avik Ray. (In Press) Domestication, diversification and decline of aus rice – more questions, few answers, and way forward. In: Selected Essays on Archaeology of Eastern India, Sakir Hussain and Subodha Mendaly (eds); felicitation volume in honour of Dr. Pradeep Kumar Behera, Sambalpur University, Sharda Publishing House.
Avik Ray and Rajasri Ray (In Press) The culture has not faded: reliance on diverse wild edible plants in prehistory, history, and modern times. In: Wild Food Plants for Zero Hunger and Resilient Agriculture (Ajay Kumar, Pardeep Singh, Suruchi Singh, Bhupinder Singh, eds). Springer Nature, Singapore
Conference Articles
Dutta Sudeshna. 2016. In search of her home : Nirmala Putul and the Adivasi voice of resistance. International Seminar Of Poetry and Revolution (1965-2015): Wings of Change. Organized by the Centre for Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures (CSLALC), Dept. of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. 19th – 20th January, 2016
Jaman H, Chakraborty Debarati, Das P . 2009. Biosorption of Copper present in wastewater using Aspergillus niger. In Chemference’09 Proceedings. Organised by Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT,Chennai, 22-23 August 2009.Volume: ChEmf 09-305.
Popular Articles
Chakraborty Debarati, Ray Avik. 2017. Dhaner Katha. In Nunete Bhatete 2: Harie jawa khabarer golpo. R.B. Sanyal & A.Tapas (Ed.).The Cafe Table. ISBN 978-81-934239-1-2.
Ray Avik and Bhattacharyya Rajasri. Medicinal weeds – a different story, MFP News, Vol. XIX, No 1: 9-11, January-March, 2009
Avik Ray, Debarati Chakraborty. March 2019. প্রাগৈগিতহািসক খাবার-দাবার [Prehistoric sumptuous meals]. চিরহরিৎ [Chiraharit – A science magazine] [in Bengali]
Technical Report
Avik Ray, Bindu Mohanty, Rajasri Ray. 2021. Changing Cropping patterns: insights from a snapshot study from two districts of northern West Bengal. Revitalizing Rainfed Agriculture Network (RRAN).
Abhra Chakraborty and Avik Ray (2019) Deep-water rice and indigenous fish co-cultivation to ensure rural livelihood, food security, and ecosystem health. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35847.65440
