Plant Cell and Tissue Culture - A Tool in Biotechnology (PDF)

FACT. He attended large number of national and international conferences as invited speaker, and served as chair or co-chair in International Botanical Conference, Berlin and EU Biomass conferences. He has published 220 research papers in national and international journals and 23 books, of which 10 books are authored and 13 edited from reputed publishers such as Springer and IK etc. He is member of editorial board of Current Trends in Biotechnology and Pharmacy. He has guided 39 research students to Ph.D. at University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. He is an elected Fellow of Botanical Society, Fellow of Phytopathological Society, Fellow of Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Fellow of Mendelian Association, Fellow of Association of Biotechnology and Pharmacology and Fellow of Indian Fern Society. Received V. Puri Medal as Botanist and Teacher's Excellence award of CEE in 2015. He has been a consultant in World Bank Project sanctioned to SPRI-HPPI, President Commonwealth Human Ecology Council (India chapter) and presently President Indian Botanical Society.



Dr. Jafargholi Imani (born 1955 in Aliabad-Gorgan, Iran) works as a scientific group leader at Institute for Phytopathology (Justus-Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, Germany). He has graduated in Agricultural Science and completed his Ph.D under supervision of Professor Dr. Karl-Hermann Neumann at JLU. He worked as Post-doctoral fellow in the group of "Plant Tissue Culture and Transformation" at the institute of Plant Nutrition JLU Giessen. Currently he is administrative head of field station and group leader in Plant Tissue Culture & Transformation at Institute of Phytopathology, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany. He is continuing scientific works on the Plant Tissue Culture and Genetic Transformation of several plant species. His area of research include optimization of genome editing procedures in plant especially in cereal and RNA-based technologies for pest control in plant production. He also is specialized in mutualistic interaction between many crop plants and soil borne and plant root colonizing fungal endophytes that confers resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses and promotes growth in crop plants. He attended large number of national and international conferences. He has published 108 research papers in national and international journals and author of eight books. He is member of Working Group "German in Vitro Cultures e.V." (ADIVK), International Association for Plant Tissue Culture and & Biotechnology (IAPTC&B), Society for Plant Biotechnology e.V., and Consultant at the EU Marie Curie Chair, Universidade de Évora, Portugal. In addition to teaching and supervising several Bachelor and Master Students in Agrobiotechnology, he has guided 17 Ph.D students at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany.