Rhizomicrobiome in Sustainable Agriculture and Environment

Prof. Joginder Singh is a Professor at the Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Lumami, Nagaland, India. Previously, he worked as a Professor in the School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University and also as a Young Scientist at Microbial Biotechnology and Biofertilizer Laboratory, Department of Botany, Jai Narain Vyas University on a research project funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is an active member of various scientific societies and organizations, including the Association of Microbiologists of India, the Indian Society of Salinity Research Scientists, the Indian Society for Radiation Biology, and the European Federation of Biotechnology. He has published extensively with Elsevier and Springer both in journals and books. He serves as a reviewer for many prestigious journals, including Current Research in Engineering, Science and Technology; Journal of Cleaner Production; Science of the Total Environment; Environmental Monitoring and Assessment; Pedosphere; Soil and Sediment Contamination; Symbiosis; International Journal of Phytoremediation; Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety; Annals of Agricultural Sciences; and Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Vikas Sharma is currently working as Associate Professor in School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara-Jalandhar. He has published research, review articles and book chapters in leading International and National journals or books. He has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Plant-Microbe Interactions, in vitro plant propagation and assay development for screening of beneficial plant microbe interactions related with the medicinal plants. Dr Sharma also serves as a member of editorial board of Plant cell biotechnology & molecular Biology. Dr. Sharma has attended several International and National Seminars, Symposia, Conferences and chaired technical sessions and presented papers in them. He has also organised funded National level conferences and workshops.

1. Rhizomicrobiome: diversity and functional importance 2. Rhizomicrobiome interactions fluxes and its various significance 3. Rhizomicrobiome, characterization and potential applications 4. Tools and technique to explore rhizomicrobiomes 5. Rhizomicrobiome interactions: fundamentals and recent advances 6. Biodiversity and biotechnological applications of rhizomicrobiome for sustainable agriculture and allied sectors 7. Sustainable use of rhizomicrobiome in abiotic stress management 8. Rhizomicrobiome in salinity stress management 9. Rhizomicrobiome: Managing drought stress in plants and its future prospective 10. Impact of pesticides and control measures on rhizomicrobiome 11. Biological control of weeds and their impact on rhizomicrobiome 12. Rhizomicrobiome: Potential applicability on the productivity of food crops 13. Role of rhizomicrobiome in in situ & ex situ conservation of plant community 14. Role and impact of Rhizomicrobiome in plant disease management 15. Rhizomicrobiome as a potential reservoir of heavy metal resistant microorganisms 16. Rhizomicrobiome: Role in management of heavy metal stress in plants 17. Applications of rhizomicrobiome in bioremediation and assisted phytoremediation 18. Rhizomicrobiome as a potential source of microbial inoculants for use in in vitro biotization mediated acclimatization of micro-propagated plants 19. Rhizomicrobiome: Role in biosynthesis of secondary metabolite/bioactive of industrial importance 20. Computational approaches to understand Rhizomicrobiome community and its future implications 21. Role of modern techniques for revealing chemical signatures of rhizomicrobiome 22. Application and Importance of metagenomic studies for exploring rhizomicrobiome dynamics