Non-Coding RNAs: Molecular Tools for Crop Improvement

Dr. Penna Suprasanna is a Professor & Director, Amity Centre for Nuclear Biotechnology, Amity University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He is the Former-Head of the Nuclear Agriculture & Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. His research interests are agricultural biotechnology, climate-smart agriculture, molecular plant stress physiology, and nuclear agriculture. He has served as an expert with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna (Austria) and Member, Food Security Committee, Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, DAE. He has more than 360 research publications to his credit and has edited books on Plant Nutrition and Food Security, Plant metal interactions, Stress tolerance and mutation breeding.

Dr. Vinay Kumar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, P.E.S. Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind, Pune, India. His research interests are plant-environment interactions, environmental stress biology, crop biotechnology, environmental biotechnology, antimicrobial resistance, nanotechnology, and natural products. He has published more than 75 research articles and 7 published books to his credit.

Dr. Ashish Kumar Srivastava is a Scientific Officer ‘G’ at the Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. He completed his Ph.D. from Homi Bhabha National Institute, Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai, India. His research work is focused on understanding the molecular mechanism of abiotic stress tolerance in crops. So far, he has published 65 research articles and edited 2 books.