Bacterial Endophytes for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Management (PDF)

Bioinformatics, University of Allahabad, India. During his doctoral thesis work, he was also awarded a MUIR fellowship and visited the University of Cagliari, Italy. He has published more than 40 research and review papers in reputed National and International journals, 09 book chapters, and edited 02 books. He has received the Early Career Research grant from SERB, Government of India, and Co-PI of GlobalStar-DBT, India sponsored project.







Awadhesh Kumar Shukla







Dr. Awadhesh Kumar Shukla is currently working as Assistant Professor (Botany) at K.S. Saket P.G. College, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India. He obtained his doctoral degree in Botany while working on Biodegradation of trichloroethylene using bacterial community from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Then after, he has been awarded CSIR- Research Associate, New Delhi and worked as postdoctoral research from Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. After completion further, he has been also awarded Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral fellowship (higher fellowship category) by UGC. In the span of more than 10 years he has been actively engaged in on various aspects of plant-microbe interactions, exploitation of microbial community for removal of xenobiotics and published more than dozens of research and review articles in journals of international repute to his credit. His basic research interest includes rhizosphere associated microbial community and their potential utilization in environmental cleanup and sustainable agriculture. During his research career he has published more than twelve research articles, more than six book chapters and his research work gained recognition at international level. He has been felicitated with several academic fellowships and awards like Young Scientist Award, CSIR-RA, UGC-Dr. D.S. Kothari postdoctoral fellowship, UGC-NET-JRF, CSIR- NET JRF, CSIR SRF, Dr. Shukla is life time member of the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI) and Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI).



Dr. Pradeep Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry, NERIST, Nirjuli, India. He served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, South Korea. He was awarded PBC Outstanding Post-Doctoral Fellowship and work for more than three years at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Dr. Kumar research interests are biocontrol and PGPR, nanotechnology, phytochemistry, bioremediation, food microbiology, phytopathology and gene expression studies. He has published more than 70 research and review articles in peer-reviewed journals, 16 book chapters and 06 edited books (Springer-Nature; Taylor & Francis Group) with total 2485 citations and h-index 24 and i10-index-35. He has been awarded Early Career Research Award from the SERB, Government of India and currently handling four projects as PI and Co-PI funded by DBT, DST-SERB and GBPNIHESD. He was awarded with Narasimhan Award from the Indian Phyto pathological Society, Emerging Scientist Award, Research Excellence award, Young Scientist Award by various societies. Dr. Kumar served as Guest editor, associate and academic editor and editorial board member of several peer reviewed journals.