Santosh Kumar Upadhyay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Panjab University, India, with over 16 years of experience in Plant Science. His research focuses on green synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, and key defense-related proteins, as well as long non-coding RNAs involved in stress responses. He has made significant contributions to plant defense and genome editing research. Dr. Upadhyay has received prestigious awards including the INSA Associate Fellowship and the INSA Medal for Young Scientist. Dr. Shumayla is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. She has been working in the area of plant molecular biology and plant biotechnology from past 5 years. She has identified and characterized various sub families of receptor-like kinase (RLK), such as lectin receptor kinases, leucine-rich receptor like kinases, Cysteine-rich receptor like kinases etc. in bread wheat. She has authored more than 10 publications including research articles in peer reviewed international journals and book chapters. She is also an editorial reviewer in the frontiers of bioinformatics and computational biology.

• 1. An overview of receptor like kinases in plants2. Origin, classification and evolutionary history of plant receptor-like kinases3. Receptor like kinases and plant innate immunity4. Role of receptor-like kinases in fungal/microbial resistance in plants5. Role of Receptor like-kinases in abiotic stress response in plants6. Role of receptor-like kinases in plant-pathogen interaction7. Role of SERK family receptor-like kinases in plants8. Analysis of lectin receptor-like kinases (LecRLKs) and their functions in higher plants9. Cysteine-rich receptor-like kinases and stress response in plants10. Structural and functional analysis of lysin motif receptor-like kinases in plants11. Thaumatin-domain containing receptor-like kinases in plants12. SnRK in plants: Roles in stress response and signaling13. Role of leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases in abiotic and biotic stress response in plants14. Functional role of Receptor-like kinases in mediating brassinosteroid signalling pathway15. Plant hormones mediated transcriptional regulation of receptor-like kinases16. Recent Advances in the Role of Protein Kinases during Plant-Herbivore Interaction17. Phosphorylation-dependent regulation of RLKs during Root-Nodule-Symbiosis (RNS)18. Receptor-like kinases induced by Abscisic acid in plants19. Role of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) in stress signalling in plants20. CLAVATA signaling pathway receptors modulate developmental traits and stress responses in crops