Plant Small RNA in Food Crops

Praveen Guleria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at DAV University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. She has worked in the areas of Plant Biotechnology, Plant Metabolic Engineering and Plant Stress Biology at CSIR- Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, H.P. India. Her research interests include plant stress biology, plant small RNA Biology, plant epigenomics and nanotoxicity. She has published several research articles in various peer-reviewed journals. She is also serving as the editorial board member and reviewer for certain international peer reviewed journals. She has been awarded the SERB- Start Up Grant by DST, GOI. She has also been awarded the prestigious “Bharat Gaurav Award” by the India International Friendship Society, New Delhi. She has also received various awards like CSIR/ ICMR- Junior research Fellowship, CSIR- Senior research fellowship, State level merit scholarship awards. Vineet Kumar is presently working as a National Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences at Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India. He earned his Ph.D. (2018) in Environmental Microbiology from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (A Central) University, Lucknow, India. His research interests include waste management, bioremediation, phytoremediation, metagenomics, wastewater treatment, environmental monitoring, bioplastic, and biofuel production. He has published more than 45 articles in peer-reviewed international journals of repute, 54 book chapters, and 4 scientific magazine articles, with more than citations of 2100, and h-index of 26. In addition, he has published 2 authored and 22 edited books on various aspects of science and engineering by Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press, RSC, and Wiley. He has been serving as a guest editor and reviewer in more than 50 International Journals for his research area. He is an active member of numerous scientific societies including the Microbiology Society (UK), the Indian Science Congress Association (India), the Association of Microbiologists of India (India), etc. Beixin Mo is a “Distinguished Professor of Guangdong Province Talent Special Support Plan”.??She received her Bachelor’s degree in Plant Developmental and Molecular Biology from Peking University, China, and received her Ph.D. degree from Guelph University, Canada. Her research area includes elucidation of molecular mechanisms involved in the biogenesis, degradation and movement of plant small RNAs. She has received extensive research funding and published over 50 papers in distinguished journals, such as?Nature Communications, Nature Plants, the Plant Cell and Genome Biology

Section 1: Basics
1. Introduction: Small RNA Biogenesis and Food crops
2. Small RNA identification and characterization: Techniques & Approaches
3. Small RNA identification from various food crops

Section 2: Recent advancements in small RNA mediated regulation of food crops
4. Small RNA mediated regulation of food crop germination
5. Small RNA regulates vegetative growth of food crops
6. Small RNA mediated regulation of food crops productivity 
7. Importance of small RNA in secondary metabolism of food crops
8. Food crops grain development and reproductive stress tolerance: Role of Small RNA
9. Salt Stress and Small RNA
10. Small RNA and temperature stress tolerance
11. Drought tolerance in food crops: Role of small RNA
12. Regulation of biotic stress mediated pathogenesis in food crops by Small RNA
13. Beneficial food crop-microbial interaction: Role of small RNA

Section 3: Applications and Future scope
14. Food Crops Improvement: Comparative Biotechnological Approaches
15. Abiotic stress tolerant food crops through small RNA technology
16. Biotic stress tolerant food crops through small RNA technology
17. Scope and Future prospective of small RNA technology in food crop improvement and sustainability