Saurabh Badoni Editor

Dr. Deepesh Bhatt shows his responsibility as an Assistant Professor at Department of Biotechnology, Shree Ramkrishna Institute of Computer Education & Applied Sciences, Sarvajanik University, Surat, Gujarat, India. His area of research includes Plant-stress physiology, Molecular cloning and functional validation of stress induced genes & promoters and Nano biotechnology for enhancing secondary metabolites in plants. He has published more than 26 research articles as well as review articles and chapters in reputable international journals and books. He has edited one book published by Springer Nature. He is a lifetime member of Association of Microbiology of India and was awarded Young Scientist by Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology Dr. Manoj Nath obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. He did a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. He worked as Post-Doctoral Research Associate in National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (N.R.C.P.B.), New Delhi (July 2010-November 2013) and International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (I.C.G.E.B.), New Delhi (April 2014-March 2016). In addition, he has also worked as Assistant Professor in Amity University, Uttar Pradesh from April 2016 to June 2018. He has received Early Career Research Award (DST-SERB) in 2017. He joined ICAR-DMR, Chambaghat, Solan (H.P.) on 08.10.2018 as scientist in Agricultural Biotechnology Dr. Saurabh Badoni is working at the Postdoctoral Fellow - Molecular Genetics department at the-South Asia Regional Centre (IRRI-SARC), based at Varanasi, India. Before joining to IRRI, he was post-Doctoral research associate at National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), a premier institute on plant science based at New Delhi, India. Recently, he has been awarded with Ramalingaswami Re-Entry Fellowship, one of the prestigious fellowships of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India. He has published more than 25 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and books chapters of international repute and is serving as a reviewer for a number of eminent journals (Critical Reviews in Biotechnology). Saurabh holds a PhD in wheat grain quality from the GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, India, MSc in Biotechnology from Thapar University, India, and BSc in Biological Sciences from HNB Garhwal University, India. Dr. Rohit Joshi is currently working as Senior Scientist cum Assistant Professor (AcSIR), Biotechnology Division, at CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India. He did his post-doctoral research at various prestigious institutions such as Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India; International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India and School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. He has published over 46 research articles and 20 book chapters in journals and books of international and national repute. For his contribution in research, he is elected as member of “The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)”, 2021; member of Plant Tissue Culture Association of India, PTCA(I), 2020. He was also awarded as R.D. Asana Gold Medal Award by Indian Society for Plant Physiology, IARI, New Delhi in 2018