Plant Endophytes and Secondary Metabolites

Dilfuza Egamberdieva is a research associate at the Centre of Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany and head of Joint Uzbek-China Key Lab of Ecobiomes of Arid Lands, National University of Uzbekistan. Her research interests include microbial ecology and diversity, plant-microbe interaction, plant nutrition and stress tolerance, and plant biological disease control. She has been awarded the SCOPUS-2019 Award “Top Scientist of the Year”, TWAS (The World Academy of Science) Award in Agricultural Sciences (2013), and TWAS-TWOWS-SCOPUS Young Women Research Award (2009), as well as several Fellowships such as President’s International Fellowship for Visiting Professors (PIFI), The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the Georg Forster Research Fellowships, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is a member of several journals’ editorial board, authored seven books published by Elsevier and Springer, and co-authored over 200 publications in per reviewed journals. Javid A Parray is currently teaching at the Department of Environmental Science, GDCEidgah, affiliated with Cluster University, Srinagar. His research interests include ecological and agricultural microbiology, climate change, microbial biotechnology, and environmental microbiomes. He has also done his Post Doctorate Research from the University of Kashmir. Dr Parray was also awarded a Fast Track Young Scientist Project by SERB – DST, GoI New Delhi. Dr Javid was also awarded “Emerging scientist year Gold Medal” for the year 2018 by the Indian Academy of Environmental Science. Dr Parray is the course coordinator for the UG- Programmes for CeC-MOOCS Swayam in Environmental Science. Dr Parray is an expert review member in the field of environmental science in the CSTT, Ministry of Education, GoI New Delhi. Prof. Kakhramon Davranov is a Director of Institute of Microbiology, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. He is an expert on microbial physiology and biochemistry, and Lead a research laboratory on Microbial Biotechnology. He is also President of Uzbekistan Society of Microbiology. He authored or co-authored over 200 publications in national and International journals. He also authored several books related to Microbiology and Biotechnology, published by National Publisher in Uzbekistan.

• 1. Plant endophytes: diversity, and ecology2. Role of Soil Metagenomics in Plant-Microbe Interaction3. Nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium-legume symbiosis in agroecosystems4. Fungal endophytes and their role in sustainable agriculture5. Plant associated Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: their role in plant nutrition6. Mycorrhizal symbiosis response under pathogen attack in plants7. Medicinal plant associated endophytic fungi and their metabolites8. Endophytic actinomycetes: their role in plant and soil health9. Production of secondary metabolites from endophytic actinomycetes isolated from marine mangrove plants10. Influence of endophytes over plant growth and abiotic stress11. Potential application of endophytes in bioremediation of heavy metals12. Endophytic microbes: Secondary metabolite modulation pathway and stress management 13. Diversity of endophytes associated with Halophytes14. Current Perspectives of Green Synthesis of Nanoparticles using endophytes15. Phyllosphere endophytic bacteria: Diversity, and Biotechnological Potential16. Crosstalk among metabolites and phytohormones from planta and endophytes17. Natural therapeutics: Unexploited potential from Endophytes associated with medicinal plants18. Technological intervention and research progress of fungal endophytes for mitigating the effect of droughts on plant growth19. Biological control of plant pathogens by endophytes