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. Fungal metabolites: a source of bioactive natural products
2. Endophytic and marine fungi are potential source of antioxidants
3. Bioactive compounds from marine-derived fungi and their potential applications
4. Marine endophytic fungi isolated from Gulf of Mannar-A source for new generation of pharmaceutical drugs and biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles and its antibacterial efficacy
5. Pullulan: a bioactive fungal exopolysaccharide with broad spectrum of applications for human welfare
6. Applications of biomolecules of endophytic fungal origin and its future prospect
7. Microbial metabolites: as sources of green dye
8. Fungal endophytes as a potential source of therapeutically important metabolites
9. Prevention and control of mycotoxins for food safety and security of human and animal feed
10. Food safety concern related to aflatoxins and control
11. Role of the endogenous fungal metabolites in the plant growth improvement and stress tolerance
12. Recent trends in fungal biosynthesis of nanoparticles
13. Role of fungi in bio-production of nanomaterials at megascale
14. Mycogenic fabrication of nanoparticles and their applications in modern agricultural practices & food industries
15. Role of fungal endophytes in the green synthesis of nanoparticles and the mechanism
16. Fungal infections: advances in diagnosis and treatment
17. CRISPR-Cas9 system for functional genomics of filamentous fungi: applications and challenges