Fungi Bio-prospects in Sustainable Agriculture, Environment and Nano-technology

Dr.V.K. Sharma has a Ph.D. in Botany from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P., India. He has more than eleven years of research experience, particularly in the area of endophytes. His research interest is in the bio-potential applications of endophytes and their mechanism. He also has a keen interest in emerging environmental issues and mitigation. He is currently working on the role of fungal endophytes in heavy metal stress tolerance of host plants, and mechanism. Dr. Sharma has more than thirty research articles and book chapters in journals of national and international repute to his credit. He is lifetime member of Mycological Society of India (MSI). He is also the recipient of MJ Thirumalachar Young Scientist Award Lectures by MSI in 2016. He also received Yunnan provincial government funding-II. He has also actively participated in many national and international conferences, symposia and workshops related to his research field Maulin Shah is an active researcher and scientific writer for over 20 years. He received a B.Sc. degree in 1999 in Microbiology from Gujarat University in Godhra, Gujarat, India. He also earned his Ph.D. degree in 2005 in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University in Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India. His research interests include biological wastewater treatment, environmental microbiology, biodegradation, bioremediation, & phytoremediation of environmental pollutants from industrial wastewaters. He has published more than 250 research papers in national and international journals of repute on various aspects of microbial biodegradation and bioremediation of environmental pollutants. He is the editor of 55 books of international repute. Dr. Parmar has a Ph.D. in Environment Science from from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India. She has more than eight years of research experience, particularly in the area of toxic metal pollution of water bodies and soil, their phytoremediation, bio-prospects of endophytes in host plant growth enhancement and stress tolerance, and the mechanism. She has about 12 publications in journals and edited book of international repute such as Microbial Biotechnology and Elsevier. Recently she was awarded by the Yunnan provincial government, funding-II in China. Dr. Ajay Kumar is a visiting scientist at the Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani center, Rishon Leziyon, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development Israel. He has published extensively in leading International and National journals or books. He has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Microbial biocontrol, and Endophytes related with the medicinal plants, Postharvest management of fruits. Dr. Kumar has published more than 165 research articles including review papers/book chapters/ books in the leading international journals. He is serving as special issue editors in some journals like "Frontiers in ...

1. Endophytic fungi: A review of survival strategies
that influence the biodiversity studies associated
with biopotential products
2. Evaluation of phylloplane fungal flora and host
plants in the Southern Western Ghats
3. Fungal endophytes from seaweeds and bio-potential
applications in agriculture
4. Fungal endophytes: Entry, establishment,
diversity, future prospects in agriculture
5. Fungal endophytes, biodiversity and biopotential
applications
6. The role of fungi in abiotic stress tolerance of plants
7. Phytopathogenic fungi and their biocontrol applications
8. Impact of fungal inoculants on sustainable agriculture
9. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi: Potential
role in sustainable agriculture
10. Endophytic fungal diversity of selected medicinal
plants and their bio-potential applications
11. Prospect of biofuel production by fungus
12. Fungal endophytes and their applications
as growth promoters and biological
control agents
13. Rhizosphere fungi and their plant association:
Current and future prospects
14. Mycotoxins associated food safety concerns
of agricultural crops, prevention and control
15. Bioprospection of endophytic fungi associated with
ethnoveterinary plants for novel metabolites
16. Sustainable crop production and improvement
through bio-prospecting of fungi
17. Yeast as plant growth promoter and biocontrol agent
18. Phytostimulation and ISR responses of fungi
19. Bio-management of Fusarium spp. associated
with fruit crops