Advisory Board and Editors Plant Science
Shahryar F. Kianian
Research Leader, USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory. Previously, Professor of genetics and plant improvement, Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University. Faculty of Cellular & Molecular Biology and Genomics interdisciplinary programs. Recipient of 2002 Yaggie Excellence in Research Award, 1989 Withaker Prize, and 1984 Gerard Award.
Ravindra Kumar
Dr. Ravindra Kumar is a Senor Scientist (Plant Pathology) at Crop Protection Division, ICAR-Indian Wheat and Barley Research Institute, Karnal-132 001 (Haryana). He obtained his M.Sc. (Ag.) and Ph.D. (Ag.) from the Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He was selected as ARS Scientist in ICAR, New Delhi in ARS-2009 batch. His areas of research interest include Host-Pathogen Interaction, Fungal Pathology, Biological Control of Phytopathogens, Mycology, Seed Pathology, and Plant Disease Management. He has published more than 32 research papers and reviews in reputed national and international journals, and has more than 50 technical and popular articles to his credit. He has also written two text books on plant pathology.
Dr Ravindra Kumar has excellent scientific writing and editing skills. Recently he edited book entitled as "Seed-Borne Diseases of Agricultural Crops: Detection, Diagnosis & Management" published by Springer, Singapore. He has edited several technical bulletins and annual reports. He has been associated with several professional/research societies of national and international repute.
Ravinder Kumar
Ravinder Kumar is working as Sr. Scientist (Plant Pathology) at the Division of Plant Protection, ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, India. His present project is 'Diagnosis and management of viral diseases of potato'. He was Principal Investigator of Accredited lab for virus indexing under National Certification System for tissue culture raised plants funded by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. He has over 15 years of research experience in the management of biotic and abiotic stresses in plants, plant biotechnology, specifically the formulation of dsRNA for plant diseases, the development of transgenic lines against pathogen resistance, plant genetic resource management, molecular characterization, and genome sequencing of plant pathogens. He was associated in developing infectious clones of virus isolates for virus resistance testing. He was also involved in the first demonstration of RNAi-mediated resistance against bacteria, as well as the ability of siRNA to inhibit the Avr3a gene responsible for virulence in susceptible potato cultivars using an RNAi approach, and confirmed moderate resistance to late blight. For the past 12 years, he has been involved with potato research in molecular diagnostics of potato diseases, and he has developed several diagnostic tools for the detection of potato pathogens, such as uniplex/multiplex RT-PCR, real-time RT-PCR, LAMP, and RT-RPA protocols, which are being successfully used in healthy seed potato production systems, mother plants, germplasm, and post-entry. He has over 60 articles published in national/international peer-reviewed journals and have received awards such as the IPA-Kaushalya Sikka Memorial Award, the Chandra Prabha Singh Young Scientist Award, the Young Scientist Associate Award, and best oral/poster awards from various scientific professional societies/institutions. He is acting as reviewer for many internationally recognized and reputed scientific journals. He is a member of editorial board as an Academic editor of the "Life and Environment - PeerJ", Academic editor of PLOS ONE, Associate Editor of BMC Plant Biology, Associate Editor of Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, Associate Editor of Plant Growth Regulation, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology, Guest Associate editor of Frontiers in Plant Science and Frontiers in Agronomy.
Sushil Kumar
Dr. Sushil Sarswat is Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology at Anand Agricultural University, India. He undertook his Ph.D. research at the ICRISAT, India in the area of plant molecular breeding.
Dr. Sarswat's research interests include QTL mapping, GWAS, crop genetics and genomics, diversity genomics. He is also a member of the editorial board for 3Biotech (Springer).
Imren Kutlu
Dr. Imren Kutlu received her Ph.D. in quantitative genetics from Eskisehir Osmangazi University of Eskisehir- Turkey, in 2012. She worked as a research assistant in the Agricultural Faculty in Eskisehir Osmangazi University–Turkey between 2007-2019. Following this, Dr. Kutlu became Associate Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Agricultural Faculty, Field Crops Department.
During her Ph.D. she was skilled with quantitative genetics of cereals crops and applying in breeding of cereal yield and quality. In addition, she studied about agronomical techniques of cereals and legumes cultivation. In her postdoctoral studies, she focused on molecular genetics techniques, which helped her study molecular breeding of cereals crops, particularly for abiotic stress tolerance.
Since 2019. Dr. Kutlu has been researching plant molecular genetics, breeding for cereals crops under the different abiotic stress and supervising graduate/undergraduate researchers.
Generally, her research interests focus on the expression of abiotic stress-responsive genes and proteins, physiological and molecular mechanisms of the abiotic stress response, and tolerance. She also studies the effects of organic and inorganic molecules required for plants to coordinate stress responses under various abiotic stresses.
Blanca B. Landa
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Agricultural Engineer, Institute of Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC, and University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain. July, 1999.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Population biology and biogeography of soilborne pathogens and biocontrol angents in the rhizosphere. Integrated control of plant pathogens; Rhizosphere microbial ecology; Biocontrol; Molecular diagnosis; Metagenomic analysis of microbial populations.
Sapna Langyan
Sapna Langyan is a scientist at ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, India. She holds an experience of more than 11 years in agricultural research. She aims to contribute towards food and nutritional security of the world and alleviating malnutrition through research support. She has more than 30 research papers, book chapters, conference proceedings and many others in reputed national and international journals and also holds editorship of many reputed journals including Frontiers. She has also edited one book on ‘Maize: Nutrition dynamics and novel uses’, published by Springer https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788132216223. She has been awarded many prestigious awards, fellowship and grants throughout her research career by premier science academies and by the Govt. of India.
Gerard R. Lazo
Geneticist with the Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA, USA.
Marcello Salvatore Lenucci
Dr. Marcello Salvatore Lenucci graduated with honors in Biological Sciences at the University of Lecce in 1996. He obtained the qualification to the profession of biologist in 1998. In 2000 he specialized with honors in Biotechnological Applications at the University of Bari. In 2001, during his PhD, he spent a period of 18 months in the laboratory of Prof. SC Fry at the "Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology" , University of Edinburgh, UK. In 2003 he obtained the title of PhD in Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Lecce and received the "Italian Botanical Society Award" for the best doctoral thesis of the year 2003. From 2003 to 2008 he carried out activities as research fellow. Since 2008 he has been a researcher at the University of Salento. He is currently Associate Professor and holds various teaching positions in the study courses of Biology. He is part of the teaching staff for the PhD in Nanotechnology of the University of Salento. He has participated in several research projects; he is the author of numerous publications in national and international journals, mostly in JCR newspapers. He is a member of the Italian Botanical Society. he is the author of numerous publications in national and international journals, mostly in JCR journals. He is a member of the Italian Botanical Society. he is the author of numerous publications in national and international journals, mostly in JCR journals. He is a member of the Italian Botanical Society.
Efi Levizou
Associate Professor in Plant Physiology at the Department of Agriculture, Crop Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece. My research interests lie in the field of Plant Stress Physiology and I’m particularly interested in studying how plants cope with degraded irrigation water and soils. Focus is given on the effects of cyanotoxins-rich irrigation water on plant function as well as on how enhanced levels of potentially harmful trace elements in soil affect plant performance, in the phytoremediation context. Recent research projects include the study of crop function and the identification of possible stress factors in aquaponics production systems.
Xin Li
Professor of plant immunity with over twenty years of research experience in the field of molecular plant-microbe interactions.