Microbial Mitigation of Stress Response of Food Legumes (ePub)

Dr. Krishna Kumar presently working as a Dean, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay College of Horticulture & Forestry Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India. He worked as a Research Associate at IARI, New Delhi, Assistant Professor at SKUAST, Jammu and then served as a Senior Scientist and Principal Scientist at Central Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair. He served as a Principal Scientist at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. He has also worked as a Head, Division of Crop Protection in Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, India. He has over 20 years of research, teaching and extension experience in mushroom production, bio-control, microbial diversity, integrated disease management, diagnosis of unknown plant diseases and suitable bio-control agents. He is a recipient of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Award for Outstanding Research in Tribal Farming Systems-2010 by Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India, SPPS Meritorious Scientist Award-2011 by Society of Plant Protection Sciences, New Delhi, India and Distinguished Service Award-2010 for his contribution in Plant Pathology by BIOVED Research Society, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is a fellow of three prestigious professional societies and life member of 12 scientific societies. He also deposited 42 microorganisms at National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (NCBI) and submitted 400 sequences of them to NCBI. He delivered several radio talks and TV shows on different topics for the benefit of farming community.

Dr. Sankaranarayanan is associated with C.G. Bhakta Institute of Biotechnology, Uka Tarsadia University, Surat of Gujarat state of India from 2015 onwards. He has experience in the fields of Antimicrobial activity of herbal and nano particles against MDR pathogens and fermented food products. His current research focus is on microbes in fermented food products, removal of bacteria from food by Dielectrophoresis. He has published 15 chapters in books, 50 research articles in International and National journals of repute and he authored 5 books which published by International publishers, guided 5 Ph.Ds and 16 M.Phil., scholars and operated 5 external funded minor projects and two Institute funded projects. From 2002 -2015, he worked as an Assistant Professor & Head, Department of Microbiology, K.S.R. College of Arts & Science, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu. He has awarded with Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and The National Academy of Sciences (TNAS) sponsored summer research fellowship for young teachers consecutively for three years. His name is included as a Mentor in DST-Mentors/Resource persons for summer/winter camps and other INSPIRE initiatives, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi. He is a Grant reviewer in British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC), UK. He has involved himself in the organization of various National / International seminars / Symposia. He is actively involved as an Editor / Editorial board members in journals and reviewers in various International / National reputed journals and acted as an external examiners to adjudicate the Ph.D., thesis of various Universities in India.