Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 51

Dr. Praveen Guleria is presently working as 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. Presently, she is editing four books with CRC Taylor & Francis and Springer Nature.Dr. Vineet Kumar is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He has worked in different area of biotechnology and nanotechnology in various institutes and universities in India namely, Panjab University Chandigarh, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology and Himachal Pradesh University. He has published many articles in these areas featuring in peer-reviewed journals. He is also serving as editorial board member and reviewer for international peer reviewed journals. He has received various awards like Dr DSK-postdoctoral fellowship, senior research fellowship and best poster awards. He has published 2 books for CRC, Taylor & Francis. Currently in final phase of editing 2 books each for CRC, Taylor & Francis and Springer.Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is a biogeochemist at Aix Marseille University who has invented carbon-13 dating, a molecular-level method allowing to study the dynamics of organic compounds in temporal pools of complex environmental media. He is Chief Editor of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews and Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World. He is the author of the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals, which includes an innovative writing tool: the Micro-Article.

• Preface.- Chapter 1 Nutraceutical Legumes: Nutritional and Medicinal Values of Legumes.- Chapter 2 Horse gram an underutilized legume: A Potential Source of Nutraceuticals.- Chapter 3 Grain legumes and their By-products: As a nutrient rich feed supplement for sustainable intensification of commercial poultry industry.- Chapter 4 Potential impact of annual forage legumes on sustainable cropping systems in Turkey.- Chapter 5 Alternative RNA splicing and editing: A functional molecular tool directed to successful protein synthesis in plants.- Chapter 6 Abiotic Stress Tolerance Including Salt, Drought and Other Stresses.- Chapter 7 Biotic stress to legumes: Fungal diseases as major biotic stress factor.- Chapter 8 Molecular mechanism underlying Chickpea - Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri Interaction.- Chapter 9 Biotechnological Approaches for Enhancing Stress Tolerance in Legumes.- Chapter 10 Deciphering the molecular mechanisms of biotic stress tolerance unravels the mystery of plant-pathogen interaction.