Sustainable Agriculture in the Era of the OMICs Revolution

Dr. Channa S. Prakash is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tuskegee University, USA and also professor of crop genetics. Dr. Prakash's research expertise is on genetic improvement research on food crops of importance to developing countries. His lab was among the first to develop transgenic sweet potato and peanut plants and conduct pioneering genomic studies on the peanut.  Dr. Prakash has been a global leader in enhancing the societal awareness of crop and food biotechnology issues, and was recognized for his outstanding work on agricultural biotechnology outreach with 2015 Borlaug CAST Communication Award, by the Council of Agricultural Science and Technology, which credited him as "arguably done more than anyone else in academia or industry to promote agricultural technologies that can help feed the world's growing population." He also serves as the Editor in Chief of the journal 'GM Crops & Food.

Dr. Sajid Fiaz, PhD, is an Assistant Professor working at Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, The University of Haripur, Pakistan. Dr. Fiaz received his PhD in Crop Genetics and Breeding from Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Dr. Fiaz's research interests include marker assisted selection for agronomic traits, mutation breeding for biotic and abiotic stress resistance, QTL mapping and genome editing for yield and quality traits in cereals. Dr. Fiaz is actively supervising under-graduate and post-graduate students. He has been awarded with a Start-Up Research Grant Project from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan worth 1.0 Million PKR. He has published more than 95 research, 10 review articles and 10 book chapters with prestigious scientific magazines like International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Frontiers in Plant Sciences, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry and Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. He is working as academic editor for PLOS ONE, guest associate editor for Frontiers in Plant Sciences, review editor for Frontiers in Genetics and editorial board member for GM Crops and Food. He has recently edited a book, "Principle and Practices of OMICS and Genome Editing for Crop Improvement" with Springer publisher. Currently, his lab group is working to identify genetic factors controlling drought stress tolerance in exotic and local landraces of rice.

Dr. Muhammad Azhar Nadeem is working as an Assistant Professor at Sivas University of Science and Technology, Sivas, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. with a dissertation on 'Identification of Genomic Regions for Various Agronomic Traits in Turkish Common Bean Germplasm with Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)' from Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Science, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu-Turkey. Currently, he is leading and participating in many projects funded by national and international organizations. Moreover, he has supervisied one PhD and two master students. He have great skills and expertise in crop science, plant genomics, use of next generation sequencing, DNA molecular markers for germplasm characterization, identification of genomic regions for traits of agricultural interest, development and validation molecular markers for marker assisted selection particularly in cereals and legumes. Currently, he is actively engaging in research activities involving genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for the identification of genomic regions, and their validation through KASP assay for marker-assisted breeding. He have a good number of research, review articles and book chapters and have more than 1000 citations as per google scholar. He has been serving as an Editorial board member of PLOS ONE, BMC Plant biology, BMC Genomic data, BMC Research Notes, Frontiers in genetics, Molecular Biology reports, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution and Pakistan Journal of Botany.  Moreover, he is serving as a lead editor of upcoming springer book e

Chapter. 1. The utilization of speed breeding and genome editing to achieve zero hunger.- Chapter. 2. Multiomics approach for crop improvement under climate change.- Chapter. 3. The intervention of multi-omics approaches for developing abiotic stress resistance in cotton crops under climate change.- Chapter. 4. Big data revolution and machine learning to solve genetic mysteries in crop breeding.- Chapter. 5. Applications of multi-omics approaches for food and nutritional security.- Chapter. 6. Applications of high throughput phenotypic phenomics.- Chapter. 7. Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) : Botany, Genetic resource, Cultivation, Conservation, and Stress factors.- Chapter. 8. Multi-Omics Approaches for Breeding in Medicinal Plants.- Chapter. 9. Applications of some nanoparticles and responses of medicinal and aromatic plants under stress conditions.- Chapter. 10. Sustainable agriculture through technological innovations.- Chapter. 11. Sustainable Rice Production under Biotic and Abiotic Stress Challenges.- Chapter. 12. Emerging Techniques to Develop Biotic Stress Resistance in Fruits and Vegetables.- Chapter. 13. Genome editing in crops to control insect pests.- Chapter. 14. CRISPR revolution in gene editing, targeting plant stress tolerance and physiology.- Chapter. 15. Genomics for Abiotic Stress Resistance in Legumes.- Chapter. 16. Genetic and molecular factors modulating phosphorous use efficiency in plants.- Chapter. 17. Recent Trends in Genome Editing Technologies for Agricultural Crops Improvement.- Chapter. 18. Recent trends and applications of omics based knowledge to end global food hunger.- Chapter. 19. Nutritional enhancement in horticultural crops by CRISPR/ Cas9: status and future prospects.- Chapter. 20. Physiological interventions of antioxidants in crop plants under multiple abiotic stresses.- Chapter. 21. Proteomics and its scope to study salt stress tolerance in quinoa.- Chapter. 22. Sustainable Cotton Production in Punjab: Failure and its Mitigating Strategies.- Chapter. 23. Biosafety and biosecurity in genetically modified crops.