Nanotechnology for Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Management in Crop Plants

Dr Ramesh Namdeo Pudake is an Assistant Professor in Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India. Dr Pudake received his PhD from China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, and after his PhD he engaged in research in a range of topics in biotechnology. He has also worked in the Department of Agronomy at Iowa State University Ames, IA, USA on functional genomics. Currently he is focusing on the research of different nanotechnology applications in agriculture. Dr Pudake has published several book chapters and articles in prominent Journals. Dr Ravi Mani Tripathi is an Associate Professor at Amity Institute of Nanotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. He received his Ph.D. in Nanobiotechnology from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India. He did his post-doctoral research at School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, and received the young scientist award in 2019 from the International Scientist award on Engineering, Science, and Medicine, Visakhapatnam, India. He has 15 years of teaching and research experience in Nanobiotechnology. He developed an innovative method for the biological synthesis of nanomaterials like particles, nanodots, flowers, rods, fibres, etc. and has vast expertise in the fields of antimicrobial nanomedicine, colorimetric detection, and catalytic/photocatalytic degradation of toxic pollutants. Dr. Sarvajeet Singh Gill is an Assistant Professor at Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. His research focus includes Agricultural Plant Biotechnology; Biotic & Abiotic stress biology, plant microbe interaction and in-silico understanding of plant genomes. In addition to his research and teaching responsibilities he has served as Associate Editor for the Brazilian Journal of Botany, and as Guest Editor of Plant Genes. He was Guest Editor of BioMed Research International’s Special Issue (Plant Stress & Biotechnology); Frontiers in Plant Science, Section-Environmental Toxicology (Topic Title: Phytotoxicity of high and low levels of plant-beneficial heavy metal ions); Frontiers in Plant Science, Section-Crop Science and Horticulture (Topic Title: The Brassicaceae - agri-horticultural and environmental perspectives); Frontiers in Plant Science, Section-Plant Physiology (Topic Title: Recent insights into the double role of hydrogen peroxide in plants); and Functional Genomics Approaches to Decipher Plant Resilience to Environmental Stresses (International Journal of Plant Genomics).