Auteur: Chandrama Prakash Upadhyaya

Dr. Ram Prasad is presently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India. His research interests include applied microbiology, plant-microbe interactions, sustainable agriculture, and nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has more than 150 publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles & book chapters, has five patents issued or pending, and has edited or authored several books. Previously, Dr. Prasad served as an Assistant Professor at Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India; Visiting Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, USA; and Research Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China. Dr. Vivek Kumar is an Associate Professor working at the Himalayan School of Biosciences, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Jolly Grant, Dehradun, India. He has authored more than 100 publications, including research papers, review articles, and book chapters, and also edited several Springer books. His research interests include plant-microbe interactions, environmental microbiology, and bioremediation. Dr. Joginder Singh is presently working as a Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. He has authored more than 60 research and review articles in peer-reviewed journals; authored/co-authored 20 book chapters; and edited four books: “Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi” and “Microbes: In Action, ” both published by Agro Bios, India; and “Microbial Bioprospecting for Sustainable Development” and “Fungi and their Role in Sustainable Development: Current Perspectives, ” with Springer International Publishing. Dr. Chandrama Prakash Upadhyaya is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, India. He previously served as an Assistant Professor of Biotechnology at Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea for three years. He has been awarded several national and international fellowships, e.g. an Indo-Swiss Fellowship at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and an INSA Visiting Scientist Fellowship in India. His research interests include plant genetic engineering, plant stress physiology & molecular biology, plant-nanoparticle interactions, and epigenetic research.