Plant Stress Biology

Arindam Kuila, PhD, is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India. Previously, he worked as a research associate at Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Centre, Bangalore, India. He earned his PhD at the Agricultural & Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 2013, in the area of lignocellulosic biofuel production. He was awarded a Petrotech Research Fellowship. He has an Indo-Brazil collaborative project funded by DBT, India, and has co-authored peer-reviewed research papers, review papers, edited books, and book chapters, and he has filed five patents.

1. Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metal in Plants: Morphological and Physiological Changes 2. Different Environmental Stress for Enhanced Biofuel Production from Plant Biomass 3. Application of Plant Stress for Enhanced Biofuel Production 4. Improving Plant Adaptation/Tolerance Under Stress Conditions: Future Prospects 5. MicroRNAs as a Potential Tool to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants 6. Molecular Approaches for Engineering Plants Resistant to Viruses 7. Plant Responses to Weeds, Pests, Pathogens, and Agrichemical Stress Conditions 8. Stomatal Adaptive Response in Plants under Drought Stress 9. Understanding the Epigenetic Regulation of Plants under Stress and Potential Application in Agriculture 10. Understanding the Mechanism of Drought Tolerance in Pearl Millet 11. Biotic Stress on Wheat: An Overview 12. Effect of Water Scarcity and High Temperature on Wheat Productivity 13. Insect Pest Management of Agricultural Crops 14. Impact of Stress Factors on Plants for Enhancing Biomass Generations Towards Biofuels