Neglected and Underutilized Crops - Towards Nutritional Security and Sustainability (PDF)

Department of Plant Biology, University of California at Berkeley (1994-95) in the field of plant molecular biology, plant physiology and biochemistry. Recipient of a Fulbright grant for research in plant proteomics (2004) at Cornell University, Ithaca-NY. Visiting professor at Tribhuvan University (2010) in Kathmandu and Pokhara, Nepal, within the European programme "Sutrofor" - Sustainable Tropical Forestry. His research activity has mainly focussed on oxidative stress and antioxidants in plants; plant abiotic stress in crops, plant sulphur metabolism and plant thiols; functions of gamma-glutamyl transferase in glutathione transport and degradation; biological effects of humic substances and biostimulants; comparative plant proteomics and application of proteomics in agricultural and food science; factors affecting the uptake and distribution of persistent organic pollutants in plants.

Romesh Kumar Salgotra, Ph.D, is a Professor and Coordinator, at the School of Biotechnology at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu (SKUAST-Jammu) in India. Dr. Salgotra received his Ph.D. in Plant Breeding & Genetics in 1999 from CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Palampur, India. He was previously an Endeavour Executive Fellow of Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has worked in different capacities as Junior Scientist and Senior Scientist at SKUAST-Jammu under All India Co-ordinated Rice Improvement Project, National Rice Research Institute (NRRI), Hyderabad and Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad, India. He has also worked as Agriculture Extension Officer in Govt. of Jammu & Kashmir, India. Dr. Salgotra is recipient of BOYSCAST Fellowship, Tennessee University, USA. He was awarded with prestigious Norman E. Borlaug Fellowship by United State Agriculture Development (USDA) during 2015. He has participated in Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights Programme (GRIP) under Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Sweden and Followup programme at Pretoria, South Africa. He has received several awards for his work and research. He was the member and representative of Global Forum for Innovative Agriculture (GFIA), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dr. Salgotra was also one of the member of delegation in Joint Committee on Science and Technology, Govt. of India held at Belgrade, Serbia in 2017. He has chaired a session in International Association of Science & Technology Development for Computational Bioscience held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He has more than 50 peer reviewed publications and has delivered numerous oral and poster presentations in national and international meetings/conferences. He has been affiliated with several internationally reputed journals and is also reviewer of reputed journals Scientific Reports, Plos One, Plant Cell Reports, BMC Genetics, Rice Science, Journal of Integrative Agriculture, Australian Journal of Crop Science, SABRAO and many others.