Penulis: Mala Trivedi

Rachana Singh is working as Assistant Professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow. She did her Ph. D in Plant Virology from National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow and University of Lucknow in 2006 and M.Sc in Microbiology from Dr. RML Avadh University, Faizabad. She has published 20 research papers 5 book chapters and many articles to her credit. She is member of Indian Science Congress, Indian Virological Society, Uttar Pradesh Academy of Science. She has two Indian patents to her credit. Working as fellow at NBRI, she has successfully transformed transgenic tomato resistant to tomato leaf curl virus. Currently she is working on the identification characterization of Soyabean viruses in India. Mala Trivedi, Professor, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow. She is recipient of double Gold Medal from University of Allahabad during her M. Sc 1993. She did her Ph D in Plant Genetics and Breeding from Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, (CIMAP) (CSIR), Lucknow. She was Research Associate at Institute of Cell Biology, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, P.R. China. She has good experience in plant transgenics. She has published several book chapters and research papers in indexed journals. She has 5 Indian and 2 US patents to her credit. She is member of many prestigious societies. She was also visiting faculty to University of Lanzhou, Lanzhou PR China. Currently she is involved in the Agrobacterium mediated transformation of Indian Medicinal Plants as well as some plants of horticultural importance.