Biographical note

Dr Rahul Datta is Asst. Professor in the field of Soil Science currently is working at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. His research has focused largely on increasing crop productivity using “green” and sustainable methods. Some of the most notable problems he has addressed through his research are drought stress, heavy metal toxicity in soil, and climate change greenhouse gas. His research has helped in increasing the quality and productivity of staple crops like wheat maize, barley, rice, and other crops like mangoes, spinach, and cotton. His work has been cited in excess of 2200 times. He has published extensively and is an editorial board member of the journals PlosOne, Sustainability (MDPI), BMC Plant Biology and Open Agriculture, in which he is overseeing a special issue on current trends in agriculture (MDPI). At present, He is also a member of the Soil Science Society of America. Dr Meenakshi Sharma is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Life Sciences, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi. She obtained her M.Phil. degree in Microbiology and Biotechnology from Department of Botany, University of Delhi, and Ph.D. degree in Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnology from the Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE) University of Delhi. She has been working as Post-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory at Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR) Delhi. Her main areas of research are microbial biodiversity, Restoration Ecology, genomics, antimicrobial activity, Plant Growth Promoting Molecules, Siderophore and Telomerase inhibitors. She has published papers in scientific journals such as Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Plant and Soil, Journal of Basic Microbiology, Soil and Tillage Research, International Agrophysics etc. She has more than 11 years of teaching experience in plant Science, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology and life science. Dr. Sachidanand Singh, B.Tech Biotechnology, M.Tech Bioinformatics and PhD in Bioinformatics. He has a postdoctoral research experience from college of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, USA. His specialization area includes Plant Biotechnology, Systems Biology and Drug design. He has more than 12 years of research and academic experience. He has published extensively, including on plant-based studies in association to Soil microbiome, herbal drug formulation, drug design and microbe-microbe interactions and their expression-based studies. He has served for a decade in School of Biotechnology and Health Sciences, Karunya University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. He also worked as consultant for college of pharmacy, Ohio State University as a Statistical Genetics during the year 2018. He has published in peer reviewed journals.