Dr. Vikas K. Bhalerao received Best Paper presentation award (Oral Session) for the paper entitled “A comparative study of growth behaviour and yield potential of wild type Pleurotus spp. collected from the Western Ghat of Maharashtra” authored by V. K. Bhalerao, A. C. Jadhav and D. B. Shinde in ISMPP, International Conference on “Plant Health for Human Welfare” held at Deptt. of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur during 01-04th November, 2017.