Srinath Rao Author

Prof. Srinath Rao is retired professor from Department of Botany, Gulbarga University, Kalburgi, Karnataka, India. He is having 34 years of teaching Post graduate students of Botany and Biotechnology in the field of in vitro propagation of medicinal plants and in vitro enhancement of secondary metabolites. He has successfully guided 25 M.Phil and 27 Ph.D students. He has made significant contributions on in vitro propagation and enhancement of secondary metabolites in some important medicinal plants. He has presented papers in several international conferences held in USA, UK, Germany, France and Sri Lanka. Apart from this, he has given 50 invited lectures in national conferences and International conferences. He published more than 100 research papers in national and International Journals. He has completed 7 major research projects funded by UGC, CSIR and DST.

Dr. Ramakrishna Akula is currently a scientist at Bayer Crop Science, Bangalore, India. Dr. Ramakrishna holds a master's degree from Sri Krishna Devaraya University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from University of Mysore, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysuru. He is a Senior Research Fellow of CSIR, New Delhi. He is involved in various research fields such as Plant Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Plant secondary metabolites, Food Science and Technology and Vegetable quality analytics. He has published several research papers in the leading international journals, published books, reviews and book chapters. He is also serving as editorial board member, and reviewer for reputed international journals. Presented over 20 research papers in symposia in India and abroad, as well as few invited lectures in India. He attended the Fifth International Symposium on Plant Neurobiology held in 2009 in Florence, Italy. He also attended the Technical Community of Monsanto (TCM) held in 2016, in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a member of the Indian science congress association and society for biotechnologists (India). He is a fellow of the Society for Applied Biotechnology, India (2012), and recipient of Global Vegetable Research Excellence Award (2017), Global technology recognition, Rapid Recognition Award, and Special recognition from the Monsanto company