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on basic and applied research which has paved way for the conceptual and practical developments in plant biotechnology mainly focused on micropropagation, secondary metabolites, transgenic plants and phytoremediation. He has published more than 250 research papers including several book chapters. He is a fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, India, Indian National Science Academy, India and National Academy of Sciences, India.



Dr. Mallappa Kumara Swamy is working as a Professor, Department of Biotechnology at East West First Grade College (Affiliated to Bangalore University), India. He has completed his Postdoctoral Research at the Department of Crop Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia from 2014-2018. Before that, he had worked as an Associate Professor and Head, Department of Biotechnology at Padmashree Institute of Management and Sciences, Bengaluru, India. He obtained his PhD (Biotechnology) from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India. He is having more than 17 years of teaching and research experience in the fields of plant biotechnology, microbiology, secondary metabolites production, phytochemistry, and biomedicine. To his credit, he has published more than 120 research publications in peer- reviewed journals and 32 book chapters in reputed book publishers. So far, he has edited 13 books with Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., CRC Press, and Studium Press India Pvt Ltd. He is also serving as the Editorial board member and reviewer for few high impact journals.



Dr. V Damodara Reddy working as Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, REVA University, Bangalore, India. Dr Reddy received Ph.D. from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, India. Dr Reddy worked as a postdoc in University of Louisville and University of Chicago, USA. His main area of research is ROS mediated liver pathogenesis under hypoxic conditions. Dr. Reddy's research work has been published in highly ranked peer-reviewed scientific journals, including PNAS (USA). He also served as a member for Institute for integrative Physiology, in University of Chicago. Dr. Reddy is a recipient of prestigious awards like Ramanujan fellowship and Young scientist from DST-SERB, India.



Dr. K. Sri Rama Murthy is working as Principal Scientist in the department of Research and Development, Shivashakti Biotechnologies Ltd, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He received M.Sc. degree from Acharya Nagarjuna University and PhD from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur. He was awarded DST - SERC Young Scientist and also worked as Professor and Head, Department of Botany, Andhra Loyola College and Department of Biotechnology in Montessori Mahila Kalasala, Vijayawada. He was the Principal Investigator for 5 Major projects and completed successfully. Under his guidance 6 students were awarded PhD., and 7 M.Phil. Degrees. He has published more than 115 research papers including book chapters, 4 books and also filed 5 Indian patents.