Agricultural Bioinformatics

Dr. P. B. Kavi Kishor is currently working as Emeritus Professor at the Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He has 38 years of teaching, research and administrative experience. Published 160 papers including book chapters, produced 25 Ph.D.s and authored 5 books. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and also National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Recipient of several gold medals, winner of Prof. Hiralal Chakravarthy Award from the ISCA, and the best teacher award from the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Received Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship from USA, Visiting Scientist Fellowship from Emory University, Atlanta, USA, Visiting Scientist Fellowship from Linkoping University, Sweden, and from Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany. Dr. Rajib Bandopadhyay is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India for thelast eight years. He did his PhD in Botany (Plant Molecular Biology) in 2004 from the University of Calcutta. He did his post-doctoral research work in Crop Biotechnology in India as well as in South Korea and USA. He has teaching experiences at the undergraduate and post graduate level in the field of Agriculture Biotechnology and also in Bioinformatics. Dr Bandopadhyay is BOYSCAST fellowship recipient from DST, Government of India in 2007. He also participated in Southern Ocean Expedition in 2011. He has published more than 47 research papers in journals of international repute and authored a number of reviews, book chapters and manuals. Dr. Prashanth Suravajhala is a Post-Doctoral Scientist and a virtual entrepreneur who founded Bioclues.org in 2005. He is also serving as an Associate Director of Bioinformatics.org, and has wide interests in lieu of Functional Genomics and Systems Biology of Hypothetical Proteins in Human, specifically targeted to mitochondria. He loves mentoring undergraduates who want to pursue Bioinformatics. Dr. Suravajhala has completed his PhD from Aalborg Universitet, Denmark. He has published 20 papers in international peer reviewed journals.

1. Preface.- 2. Foreword.- 3.Association Mapping A new Paradigm for Dissection of Complex traits in crops.- 4. The silent Assassins Informatics of plant Viral Silencing Suppressors.5. Tackling the Heat Stress Tolerance in crop Plants: a Bioinformatics Approach.- 6. Comparative Genomics of Cereal Crops: Status and Future Prospects.- 7. A Comprehensive Overview on Application of Bioinformatics and Computational Statistics in Rice Genomics Towards an Amalgamated Approach for Improving Acquaintance Base.- 8. Contribution of Bioinformatics to Gene Discovery in Salt Stress Responses in Plants.- 9. Peanut Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications for Developing more Effective Immunotherapies for Peanut Allergy and Improving Food Safety.- 10. Plant MicroRNAs - An Overview.- 11. ESTs in plants: Where are we heading?.- 12. Bioinformatics Strategies Associated with Important Ethnic Medicinal Plants.- 13. Mining Knowledge from Omics Data.- 14. Cloud Computing in Agriculture.- 15. BioinformaticTools in the Analysis of Determinants of Pathogenicity and Ecology of Entomopathogenic Fungi used as Microbial Insecticides in Crop Protection.- 16. Exploring the Genomes of Symbiotic Diazotrophs with Relevance to Biological Nitrogen Fixation.- 17. Plant-Microbial Interaction: A Dialogue between two Dynamic Bioentities.- 18. Machine Learning with Special Emphasis on Support Vector Machines (SVMs) in Systems Biology: A Plant Perspective.- 19. Xanthine Derivatives: A molecular Modeling perspective.