The Chemical Dialogue Between Plants and Beneficial Microorganisms

Dr. Vivek Sharma is currently an Assistant Professor at the University Centre for Research and Development at Chandigarh University, Mohali (PB). He has more than 12 years of research experience exploring molecular attributes of Trichoderma. His research also involves examining the molecular aspects of microbes beneficial to plants such as Streptomyces, and Bacillus. He has published several research papers in international journals, serves as an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE, the review editor for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, an Associate Editor of Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, and is a member of the editorial board of Current Proteomics. He is also a recognized reviewer for journals such as the Journal of Advanced Research, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Environmental Research, the Journal of Proteomics, BMC Genomics, BMC Plant Biology, AMB Express, Molecular Biotechnology, MDPI Pathogens, Folia Microbiology, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology and Archives of Microbiology. Dr. Salwan is currently an Assistant Professor (Microbiology) at the College of Horticulture and Forestry (Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry), Neri, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. Dr. Salwan’s research interests and contributions are on the diversity of psychrotrophic bacteria from the Western Himalayas and their utilization for industrial applications. She has also worked on the exploration of extremophiles for industrially relevant enzymes and plant beneficial microbes for agricultural benefits. She has published two books and numerous research papers in several international journals. Dr. Salwan serves as an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE and is also a recognized reviewer for several journals including MDPI Genes, MDPI Diversity, MDPI Foods, BMC Microbiology, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, and Microbial Ecology. Dr Moliszewska is a plant pathologist primarily works on soil fungi, plant pathogens, plant diseases, biological and biotechnological methods used in the control of phytopathogens, mutual relations between communities of soil microorganisms, plant extracts as biopreparations, herbal plants and the use of herbs, Rhizoctonia solani, Aphanomyces cochlioides, Cercospora beticola, molecular beetroot diseases and biochemical methods of fungi differentiation, the course of the disease process in plants. Currently working as associate professor at Opole university Poland, she has published over 40 research articles. David Ruano Rosa is a researcher at the Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León, ITACyL where he earned a postdoctoral contract in the program DOC-INIA. His research focus is in the implementation of biological (by using biological control agents alone or in combination) and integrated control (combining biological control agents and chemical products) of plant pathogens principally in woody plants such as avocado or olive. He has participated in national and international conferences and acts as reviewer in several research journals including Plant Disease, Microbial Ecology, FEMS Microbiology, Phytopathology, PLOS one, Crop Protection, European Journal of Plant Pathology and Frontiers in Microbiology in which he is review editor for plant microbe interaction. Dr. Jedryczka is head and full professor of the Dept of Pathogen Genetics and Plant Resistance, Institute of Plant Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences where she was the Founder and first Head of the International Doctoral Study Program. She has received multiple international awards in recognition of her work and her over 200 scientific contributions have been published in reputed international journals. She developed the System for Forecasting Disease Epidemics (SPEC) which has been implemented at the country level, thanks to a collaboration with DuPont (currently: Corteva). It is the largest in Europe and the third largest decision support system for plant protection in the world, based on aerobiological and molecular methods. In cooperation with the companies Bayer, Dalgety and Syngenta, she modified and popularized the petal test for predicting the infection of oilseed rape by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (stem rot)