Plant Small RNA

Praveen Guleria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at DAV University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. She has worked in the areas of Plant Biotechnology, Plant Metabolic Engineering and Plant Stress Biology at CSIR- Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, H.P. India.Her research interests include plant stress biology, plant small RNA Biology, plant epigenomics and nanotoxicity. She has published several research articles in various peer-reviewed journals. She is also serving as the editorial board member and reviewer for certain international peer reviewed journals. She has been awarded the SERB- Start Up Grant by DST, GOI. She has also been awarded the prestigious “Bharat Gaurav Award” by the India International Friendship Society, New Delhi. She has also received various awards like CSIR/ ICMR- Junior research Fellowship, CSIR- Senior research fellowship, State level merit scholarship awards. Vineet Kumar is presently working as a National Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences at Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India. He earned his Ph.D. (2018) in Environmental Microbiology from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (A Central) University, Lucknow, India. His research interests include waste management, bioremediation, phytoremediation, metagenomics, wastewater treatment, environmental monitoring, bioplastic, and biofuel production. He has published more than 45 articles in peer-reviewed international journals of repute, 54 book chapters, and 4 scientific magazine articles, with more than citations of 2100, and h-index of 26. In addition, he has published 2 authored and 22 edited books on various aspects of science and engineering by Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press, RSC, and Wiley. He has been serving as a guest editor and reviewer in more than 50 International Journals for his research area. He is an active member of numerous scientific societies including the Microbiology Society (UK), the Indian Science Congress Association (India), the Association of Microbiologists of India (India), etc.

• Section 1 Basics1. Introduction to plant small RNAs2. Diversity and types of small RNA3.Biogenesis of small RNA: Molecular pathways and regulatory mechanisms4. Transcriptome-based identification of small RNA in plants: The need for robust prediction algorithmsSECTION 2 Expression and regulation mechanism of small RNA5. Role of RNA interference in seed germination6. Importance of small RNA in plant seed      germination7. Importance of small RNA in plant metabolism8. Small RNA in tolerating various biotic stresses9. Role of small RNA in regulating plant viral pathogenesis 10. Salt stress tolerance and small RNA11. Small RNAs and cold stress tolerance12. Toward elucidating the functions of miRNAs in drought stress tolerance13. Regulation of photosynthesis and vegetative growth of plants by small RNAs14. Heat stress tolerance through small RNA15. Role of small RNA in plant interaction with microbes16. Plant growth regulation by small RNA-mediated plant-biotic interactions17. Small RNA and DNA methylation in plantsSECTION 3 Application of small RNA18. Small RNA manipulation in plants:Techniques and recent developments19. MicroRNA-mediated regularity functions under salinity stress in plants20. Biotic stress-tolerant plants through small RNA technology21. Application of miRNA in fruit quality improvement22. Physiological modification of plants through small RNA23. Small RNA technology for plant abiotic stress toleranceSECTION 4 Future scope24. Challenges of small RNA technology25. Future scope of small RNA technology in crop science Index