New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Prof. H. B. Singh works as Distinguished Professor, Department of Biotechnology, GLA University, Mathura from August 1, 2020 to date. He is a Visiting Professor at Cornell University and University of Illinois, USA, Sau Paulo State University, Sorocaba, Brazil. He is honoured with 22 National and International prestigious awards including the CSIR Award for S&;T Innovation and Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences Successfully completed 21 research projects funded by various funding agencies. Established fruitful research collaborations with academic and industry researchers and published jointly with national and international collaborators in high impact journals and obtained 19 patents Dr. Anukool Vaishnav is working as a Postdoctoral Scientist (Swiss excellence fellow) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is also associated with the Department of Biotechnology, GLA University, India, as an Assistant Professor. He has operated the SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellowship as Principal Investigator at the Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. As an active researcher, he has published more than 45 publications and 6 books. He has also received several fellowships and young scientist awards from different agencies.

• 1. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria - Advances and Future Prospect2. Prospects of beneficial microbes as a natural resource for sustainable legumes production under changing climate3. Trichoderma as biostimulant - a plausible approach to alleviate abiotic stress for intensive production practices4. Mode of Action of Different Microbial Products in Plant Growth Promotion5. Role of AM fungi in growth promotion of high-value crops6. Pseudomonas and Bacillus: A biological tool for crop protection7. Underlying forces of plant microbiome and its effect on the plant development8. Plant Viruses as Biopesticides9. Microalgal based biostimulants as alleviators of biotic and abiotic stress in crop plants10. Utilization of omics approaches for underpinning plant-microbe interaction11. Extremophiles for Sustainable Agriculture12. Seed biopriming with biopesticide: A key to sustainability of agriculture13. Insights into novel cell immobilized microbial inoculants14. Role of Mycorrhizosphere as a biostimulant and its impact on plant growth, nutrient uptake and stress management15. Trichoderma spp. as Bio-stimulants: Molecular Advances16. Enhancing the growth and disease suppression ability of Pseudomonas fluorescens17. Synthetic Biology Tools: Engineering Microbes for Biotechnological Applications18. Role of Microbial Consortia in remediation of soil, water and environmental pollution caused by indiscriminate use of chemicals in agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges19. Sustainable agriculture and viral diseases of plants: An overview20. Enhancement of plant nutrient uptake by bacterial biostimulants