Non-Coding RNAs

Dr. Penna Suprasanna is a Professor & Director, Amity Centre for Nuclear Biotechnology, Amity University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He is the Former-Head of the Nuclear Agriculture & Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. His research interests are agricultural biotechnology, climate-smart agriculture, molecular plant stress physiology, and nuclear agriculture. He has served as an expert with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna (Austria) and Member, Food Security Committee, Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, DAE. He has more than 360 research publications to his credit and has edited books on Plant Nutrition and Food Security, Plant metal interactions, Stress tolerance and mutation breeding.Dr. Vinay Kumar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, P.E.S. Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind, Pune, India. His research interests are plant-environment interactions, environmental stress biology, crop biotechnology, environmental biotechnology, antimicrobial resistance, nanotechnology, and natural products. He has published more than 75 research articles and 7 published books to his credit.Dr. Ashish Kumar Srivastava is a Scientific Officer ‘G’ at the Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. He completed his Ph.D. from Homi Bhabha National Institute, Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai, India. His research work is focused on understanding the molecular mechanism of abiotic stress tolerance in crops. So far, he has published 65 research articles and edited 2 books.

• Chapter 1: Small RNAs in Plants: Are These Magic Bullets for Imparting Climate Resilience in Crops?Chapter 2: Regulatory role(s) of plant small non-coding RNAs in relation to trait improvement in cropsChapter 3: Plant Non-Coding miRNA and Their Importance in Plants PhysiologyChapter 4: miRNA regulated transcription factor networks in response to osmotic stressChapter 5: MicroRNA-mediated strategies for conferring biotic stress tolerance in plantsChapter 6: Identification and Characterization of Plant ncRNA Responsive to Climate ChangeChapter 7: Plant Non-Coding RNAs and their Regulation in Salinity and Heavy Metal Stress Chapter 8: Ionizing Radiation Induced Non-coding RNA in plants and their Implication in Mutation BreedingChapter 9: Role of Noncoding RNAs in Abiotic Stress Response & Adaptation in ChickpeaChapter 10: Plant Functional Long Non-Coding RNAs: Yesterday’s dark matter, today’s regulatory component for abiotic stress response Chapter 11: Machine learning approaches for long non-coding RNA identification in plantsIndex