Multiple Abiotic Stress Tolerances in Higher Plants: Addressing the Growing Challenges - Hardcover

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Dr. N.K. Gupta obtained his PhD (1997) from prestigious Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. He was awarded Biotech Overseas Associateship (2006-2007) by Government of India and worked as Post Doc at University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. He also served as Visiting Professor at the University of Nebreska, Lincoln, USA (2013) and University of Tottori, Japan (2023). At present he is working as Professor (Plant Physiology) & Director, Education at SKN Agriculture University, Jobner. Dr. Gupta has teaching experience of more than 25 years and guided 15 PG students for dissertation. He is Fellow of many academic societies. Recently he has been awarded prestigious J. J. Chinoy Gold Medal award by ISPP, New Delhi (2019). He is recipient of first RS Paroda Best Scientist Award (2020). He has published more than 60 research papers in national and international journals including Plant Cell Environment, Photosynthetica, Plant Growth Regulation, Journal of Agronomy & Crop Science, Functional & Integrative Genomics etc. He has four authored books and ten book chapters published by Nova Publication, CRC Press etc. His H-Factor is 18.0.

Dr. Yuri Shavrukov received his PhD degree (1991) at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk. Russia, with following employment in the same Institute and combined his research with teaching at Novosibirsk State University.Hecompleted his STA Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1995-1996) at the Hokkaido National Agricultural Experiment Station (Japan); and was awarded JSPS Research Fellowship at the Hokkaido University (1998) and JSPS Senior Research Fellowship at Okayama University (2012). In 2001, Dr. Shavrukov was selected and employed by CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Adelaide, Australia. After CSIRO, he received a position at the University of Adelaide, Plant Genomics Centre (2005-2016), and since that he moved to Flinders University, Adelaide. Currently, Dr. Shavrukov is Adjunct Professor at the College of Science and Engineering (Biological Sciences), Flinders University. His H-factor is 22. He has more than 65 publications, and he is actively publishing especially in last years.

Dr. R.K. Singhal is currently working as a scientist in the Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi (U.P) India. He has published more than 40 research reviews and chapter paper in reputed journals such as Frontier in Plant Science (IF-5.753), Frontier in Agronomy, Physiologia Plantarum (If-4.5), Plant Breeding, Russian Journal of Plant Physiology and many others focused mainly on abiotic stresses. Currently, he is working on multiple abiotic stress tolerance in different crops.

Dr. Nikolai Borisjuk is a Professor at the School of Life Sciences of Huaiyin Normal University. He has graduated from the T. Shevchenko Kiev State University (Kiev, Ukraine), majoring in microbiology and received his PhD in molecular biology in 1988. In 1990 he moved to Tuebingen University in Germany as a fellow of A. von Humboldt foundation, and since then he continued working at various international research Institutions in Germany, USA and Australia. He has published more than 60 research papers devoted to plant genome structure and evolution, plant genetic engineering and stress resistance in prestigious scientific journals such as Nature Biotechnology, PNAS, Plant Physiology, New Phytologist etc. with a current H-factor of 27. He taught molecular biology and plant genetic engineering courses and supervised undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Kiev State University, Institute of Plant Genetics (Gatersleben, Germany), Rutgers University (New Brunswick, USA), Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, USA) and the University of Adelaide (Adelaide, Australia).