Omics Approaches for Sugarcane Crop Improvement

ISBN-13: 9781032273686 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Opis

This book explores both the theoretical and practical aspects of sugarcane crops focusing on the innovation processes. This book argues in favor of developing an integrated research and development system which will strengthen the research and development capabilities of all the areas of sugarcane.

O autorze

Prof (Dr.) Rajarshi Kumar Gaur earned PhD in 2005, now Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. His Ph.D was on molecular characterization of sugarcane viruses, viz., mosaic, streak mosaic and yellow luteovirus. He received MASHAV fellowship of Israel government for his post-doctoral studies and joined The Volcani Centre, Israel and BenGurion University, Negev, Israel. In 2007 he received the Visiting Scientist Fellowship from Swedish Institute Fellowship, Sweden to work in the Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. Received Post-Doc. Fellowship from ICGEB, Italy in 2008. He has made significant contributions on plant viruses and published 130 national/international papers, authored 18 edited books and presented near about 50 papers in the national and international conferences.
He has honoured as Fellow of Linnean Society, Fellow of Royal society of Biology, Fellow of Society of Plant Research. Fellow of Society of Applied Biology (FSAB), Fellow of International Society of Biotechnology (FISBT). He has bagged many other awards like, Prof. B.M. Johri memorial Award, Society of Plant Research (SPR), Excellent Teaching Award by Astha Foundation, Meerut, UGC-Research Teacher Award, Young Scientist Award-2012 in Biotechnology by Society of Plant Research (SPR), Meerut, Scientific & Applied Research Centre Gold Medal Award-2011 for outstanding contribution in the field of Biotechnology. He has visited several laboratories of USA, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Thailand, Sweden, Italy. He is also associated with several international journals as an academic editors and reviewers like Frontiers in Microbiology, Plose One, Scientific Reports, 3Biotech, J. of Plant Growth Regulators, Molecular Biology Report, Plant Disease, Current Genomic, Scientific African, Indian Phytopathology, VirusDisease etc. Currently, he is involved in many national & international grants and international collaborative projects on plant viruses and disease management.