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. Role of Microorganism as new generation plant bio-stimulants: An assessment2. Exploiting biostimulant properties of Trichoderma for sustainable plant production3. Bacilli Rhizobacteria: A versatile biostimulant for sustainable Agriculture4. Arbuscular Mycorrhizae, a Treasured Symbiont to Agriculture5. Micro and Macroalgae: A Potential Biostimulant for Abiotic Stress Management and Crop Production6. Fluorescent Pseudomonads: A Multifaceted Biocontrol Agent for Sustainable Agriculture7. Role of Piriformospora indica in inducing soil microbial communities and drought stress tolerance in plants8. Microbes-based bio-stimulants towards sustainable oilseeds production: Nutrients recycling and genetics involved9. Role of soil microbes in micronutrient solubilization10. Sustainable induction of systemic resistance in response to potential biological control agents in crops11. Psychrophilic Microbes: Biodiversity, Beneficial Role and Improvement of Cold Stress in Crop Plants12. Role of plant-associated bacteria as bio-stimulants in alleviation of chromium toxicity in plants13. Microbe-based plant biostimulants and their formulations for growth promotion and stress tolerance in plants14. Microbial consortia for Augmentation of Plant Growth–Revisiting the promising approach toward sustainable agriculture15. Phosphate solubilization by microorganisms16. Fungal endophytes as biostimulants of secondary metabolism in plants: a sustainable agricultural practice for medicinal crops17. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria from the Perspectives of Tea Plantations and Diseases18. Microbiome-based approaches to enhance soil health in arable land19. Deciphering microbial consortium from termite gut for biofertilizer consortium formulation20. Revivification of rhizobacteria-promoting plant growth for sustainable agricultural development