Handbook of Plum Fruit (PDF)

Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, Royal Society of Chemistry etc.

Dr. Sajad Mohd Wani is presently working as Associate Professor-cum-Senior Scientist in the Division of Food Science and Technology, SKUAST-Kashmir, J&K, India. He has served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Kashmir for more than a decade. He completed his B. Sc. Agriculture and M. Sc. Postharvest Technology from SKUAST- Kashmir and Ph. D. Food Technology from University of Kashmir. He has qualified CSIR-NET in Life Sciences and ICAR-ASRB NET in Horticulture and Food Science & Technology. He has acted as the Principal Investigator of four projects and Co-Principal Investigator of ten major research projects. Two Ph. D. scholars have received ICMR Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) under his mentorship. He has guided 40 M.Sc students and 07 PhD scholars are currently working under his supervision. He has been awarded International Travel Grant by SERB-DST to present a paper in EFFoST held in Greece in 2015. He has presented 15 papers in several national and international conferences. He organized one national level conference on "Recent advances in understanding the role of phytochemicals in human heath" in 2018. He has published more than eighty (80) research and review articles in the journals of national and international repute with some papers having NAAS rating of more than 17. He has more than 1800 citations to his credit with an H-Index of 25. He has published one book and ten book chapters. He has received best paper award by AFST(I) in 2016.

Prof. Vikas Nanda completed his Master's Degree and PhD Degree in Food Technology from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is currently working Professor in Department of Food Engineering & Technology, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Sangrur, Punjab, India. Prof. Nanda has published over 80 peer-reviewed research and review papers, many book chapters, authored two books and has delivered number of presentations at various national and international conferences, seminars, workshops, and webinars. Prof. Nanda has supervised 5 PhD Scholars and 24 M.Tech Students. Prof. Nanda has visited Israel, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Argentina, Netherlands, Thailand and UAE for attending international conferences. Prof. Nanda is also working as Co-Chairman, International Honey Commission and Co-chairman/Mentor council formed by Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India