Purohit was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India, by the President of India in 1997 for his valuable scientific contribution in Indian mountains.[4]
After joining HNB Garhwal University, Purohit initiated work on high-altitude plants. He established an institute with its alpine field station at 13000-ft elevation at Tungnath, which is the first Alpine Center in India. The work conducted at this centre has revealed that high altitude species are less sensitive than the low altitude species to the environmental stresses. The germination studies of alpine plants made by Purohit and his associates have helped in germinating many endangered species and establishing them in nature in the alpine field station at Tungnath. He and his associates have come up with the cultivation technology for Aconites, alpine and sub-alpine plants of very high medicinal value, where yield is increased 10 to 12 fold. He has made valuable scientific contribution on mountain plants and the mountain ecosystem. After retiring from H.N.B. Garhwal University in 2002, he was offered the special chair by Government of Uttarakhand to advice on conservation, development and cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants in the State. He has established a Centre for Aromatic Plants for the State.[5]
Books edited
Views on Physiology of Flowering,[6] 1978 (with R. Gurumurti)
Conservation and Management of Biological Resources in Himalaya, 1996[7] (with P.S. Ramakrishnan, K.G. Saxena, K.S. Rao and R.K. Maikhuri)
Harvesting the Herbs -2000, 1997 (with A.R. Nautiyal and M.C. Nautiyal)
^ ab"Prof". Adityapurohit.com. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
^Gurumurti, K., Purohit, A. N., Nanda, K. K. (1978). Views on physiology of flowering: Professor K. K. Nanda commemoration volume. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh.