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Ajit Kumar Passari
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Dr. Ajit Kumar Passari is working as a Senior Scientist at Scotland’s Rural College, Edinburgh, UK. His primary area of research interests include Plant and soil microbiome interaction; Bioactive compounds and enzyme production from microorganisms and plants; Crop improvement; Plant Growth Promoting Microorganisms, Biocontrol agents; Stress tolerance; Lignocellulosic biomass-based by-products; Bioremediation & Phytoremediation; Genomics, and Metabolomics approach.
Dr. Passari has published more than 50 research articles in well-reputed journals (h-index 24 and i10-index 41, total google scholar citations 2064) and published six patents in India. He has also edited five books published by Elsevier, Springer, and Intech Open publisher.
Dr. Passari has received several international and national Young Scientist Awards in different parts of the world. He has been included on the editorial board of several highly impacted international journals. He is an active life member of various scientific bodies/societies such as the American Society of Microbiology, Microbiology Society, Asian PGPR Society of Sustainable Agriculture, and Association of Microbiology India, etc.
Agricultural Science Biodiversity Bioengineering Bioinformatics Biomaterials Biomolecules Biotechnology Computational Biology Environmental Contamination & Remediation Food Science & Technology Genomics Microbiology Molecular Biology Mycology Natural Products Pathology Plant Science Soil Science