Microbial Interventions in Agriculture and Environment

Dhananjaya P. Singh is presently Principal Scientist in Biotechnology at ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan, India. He did his Masters' degree from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar and Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His research interests include plant-microbe interactions, bioprospecting of metabolites of microbial and plant origin, microbe-mediated stress management in plants, metabolomics-driven search for small molecules and bioinformatics in microbial research. He has been working on the societal implications of microbial biotechnology pertaining to microbe-mediated crop production practices and rapid composting of residual agricultural wastes at farm and farmers levels. Such practices are now reaching among the farming communities for their adoption at field scale. He has been associated with the development of supercomputating infrastructure for agricultural bioinformatics in microbial domain at ICAR-NBAIM under National Agricultural Bioinformatics Grid (NABG) program of ICAR, India. He is an Associate of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), India and has been awarded with several prestigious awards including Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Award for Scientific Excellence. With more than 150 publications in the journals of National and International repute Dr. Singh has also edited five books on microbial research with Springer Nature and other publishers. Dr. Vijai Kumar Gupta is the Senior Scientist, ERA Chair of Green Chemistry, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. His area of research interests are- Bioactive Natural Products, Microbial Biotechnology and Applied Mycology, Bioprocess Technology, Biofuel & Biorefinery Research, Glycobiotechnology of Plant-Microbial Interactions.  He is the Secretary of European Mycological Association, Country Ambassador of American Society of Microbiology. He is the Fellow of- Linnaean Society; Mycological Society of India; Associate Fellow of National Academy of Biological Sciences India; Indian Mycological Association. He has published several papers in internationally well reputed journals and edited many many books for international publishers inclusing Springar Nature.  Ratna Prabha is currently working as DST Women Scientist at ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, India.  With Doctorate in Biotechnology and Masters in Bioinformatics, she is actively involved in different research activities. Her research interest lies in microbe-mediated stress management in plants, database development, comparative microbial analysis, phylogenomics and pangenome analysis, metagenomics data analysis and microbe-mediated composting technology development and dissemination. She has been engaged in developing various digital databases on plants and microbesand has various edited and authored books, many book chapters, and different research papers and review articles in journals of international repute.

1.50 Years of Development of Beneficial Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture and Society: Progress and Challenges Still to be Met: Part of the Solution To Global Warming and 'Hothouse Earth.-   2.Metabolomics Approaches in Microbial Research: Current Knowledge and Perspective towards the Understanding of Microbe Plasticity.-  3.Is PGPR an Alternative for NPK Fertilizers in Sustainable Agriculture.- 4.Soil: Microbial Cell Factory for Assortment with Beneficial Role in Agriculture.-  5.Insights Into the Unidentified Microbiome: Current Approaches and Implications.- 6.Interactions in Soil-Microbe-Plant System: Adaptation to Stressed Agriculture.- 7. Microbe-mediated Tolerance in Plants against Biotic and Abiotic Stresses.- 8.Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Colonization and Activation of Plant Defence Responses against Phytopathogens.- 9.Microbes as Resource of Biomass, Bioenergy and Biofuel.- 10.Microbe-Mediated Reclamation of Contaminated Soils: Current Status and Future Perspectives.- 11.Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) and Fungi (PGPF): Potential Biological Control Agents of Diseases and Pests.- 12.Biofortification: A Promising Approach Towards Eradication of Hidden Hunger.- 13.Microbes in Foods and Feed Sector.- 14.New Edge Agricultural Bioinputs.- 15.Microbial Bio-production of Proteins and Valuable Metabolites.- 16. 2, 4-diacetylphloroglucinol: A Novel Biotech Bioactive Compound for Sgriculture.- 17.Coral Reef Microbiota and Its Role in Marine Ecosystem Sustainability.- 18.Diversity and Ecology of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in the Western Ghats.- 19.Halotolerant PGPR Bacteria: Amelioration for Salinity Stress.- 20.Microbial Degradation of Nitro-Aromatic Pesticide: Pendimethalin.- 21.Nisin Production with Aspects on Its Practical Quantification.