uses of plant growth promoting microbes particularly arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
in improved plant growth, soil carbon sequestration, drought tolerance, and overall
productivity of crops. He has been awarded many awards like gold medal award
during his master’s course, best paper presentation, and travel grant awards for
participating abroad in various scientific meetings/conferences. He owned several
external research grants (DBT, DST, ICAR) for his research on applied aspects of
plant–AMF–microbe interactions. He has also been awarded the prestigious DBTpostdoctoral CREST Award-2013 under which he worked in ARS-USDA, MD USA
during 2013–2014 on signature fatty acid biomarkers in soil. He is life member of
several professional societies, member of scientific bodies, reviewer of many
journals related to agri-life sciences (Frontiers, Elsevier, Springer, Scientific Reports,
etc.,) and deputed abroad to Iran, Australia, Portugal, Switzerland, USA at various
occasions to participate in meetings and conferences. There are about 80 important
research articles published in refereed journals, magazines, and review articles in
books of international repute and has many microbial accessions with NCBI database and cultures deposited in International Microbial Repository Authorities to his
credit.
Contributors
Sumit Kumar Aggarwal ICAR-Indian Institute of Maize Research, Ludhiana,
Punjab, India
Imtiaz Ahmad Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA, USA
Mamta Arya ICAR-NBPGR Regional Station, Bhowali, Nainital, India
Sonia Balyan National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Delhi, India
Chandni Bansal National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Delhi, India
Mary E. Barbercheck Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Pooja Baweja Department of Botany, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi,
New Delhi, India
Karima Bencherif Université de Djelfa, Djelfa, Algeria
Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Unité de Chimie Environnementale et
Interactions sur le Vivant (UCEIV), Calais Cedex, France
Ekta Bhardwaj Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
J. K. Bisht Crop Production Division, ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi
Anusandhan Sansthan, Almora, Uttarakhand, India
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in improved plant growth, soil carbon sequestration, drought tolerance, and overall
productivity of crops. He has been awarded many awards like gold medal award
during his master’s course, best paper presentation, and travel grant awards for
participating abroad in various scientific meetings/conferences. He owned several
external research grants (DBT, DST, ICAR) for his research on applied aspects of
plant–AMF–microbe interactions. He has also been awarded the prestigious DBTpostdoctoral CREST Award-2013 under which he worked in ARS-USDA, MD USA
during 2013–2014 on signature fatty acid biomarkers in soil. He is life member of
several professional societies, member of scientific bodies, reviewer of many
journals related to agri-life sciences (Frontiers, Elsevier, Springer, Scientific Reports,
etc.,) and deputed abroad to Iran, Australia, Portugal, Switzerland, USA at various
occasions to participate in meetings and conferences. There are about 80 important
research articles published in refereed journals, magazines, and review articles in
books of international repute and has many microbial accessions with NCBI database and cultures deposited in International Microbial Repository Authorities to his
credit.
Contributors
Sumit Kumar Aggarwal ICAR-Indian Institute of Maize Research, Ludhiana,
Punjab, India
Imtiaz Ahmad Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA, USA
Mamta Arya ICAR-NBPGR Regional Station, Bhowali, Nainital, India
Sonia Balyan National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Delhi, India
Chandni Bansal National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Delhi, India
Mary E. Barbercheck Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Pooja Baweja Department of Botany, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi,
New Delhi, India
Karima Bencherif Université de Djelfa, Djelfa, Algeria
Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Unité de Chimie Environnementale et
Interactions sur le Vivant (UCEIV), Calais Cedex, France
Ekta Bhardwaj Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
J. K. Bisht Crop Production Division, ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi
Anusandhan Sansthan, Almora, Uttarakhand, India
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