Biotechnological Advances in Bamboo

Dr. Zishan Ahmad has over 7 years (including Ph.D. duration) of research experience in plant biotechnology and currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Bamboo Research Institute of Nanjing Forestry University in Nanjing, China. He obtained his Ph.D. from Aligarh Muslim University in India, in the year 2019. He received financial assistance from Department of Science and Technology (DST), India during his Ph.D. work. He also qualified different national level talent test conducted by The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India and Agricultural scientific recruitment board (ASRB), India. He published over 11 research articles and 05 book chapters in various journals/books of great repute. He attended several national/international conferences, workshop/research training and received prestigious awards from various scientific societies. He also represented Faculty of Life sciences, Aligarh Muslim University in zonal and national level competitions conducted by University Grant Commission (UGC), India. Dr. Yulong Ding has over 35 years of research experience in bamboo. He is a professor at Bamboo Research Institute of Nanjing Forestry University in China and recently appointed as the Director of Bamboo Resource Cultivation Engineering Technology Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Bureau in China. He was a visiting scholar at the University Hamburg, Institute of Wood Biology, Germany, for 2 years. He chaired over 10 projects funded by the Jiangsu provincial government, or Ministry of Science and Technology, or the Ministry of education, China. He holds membership of several academic bodies/societies Chinese bamboo association, the National standard committee of bamboo products and the director of the association committee of bamboo resources and ecology. He published over 200 research articles and 6 book chapters, also edited one book. He has been serving as an editorial board member for several journals. Dr. Anwar Shahzad has over 25 years of research experience in plant biotechnology and is currently working as a professor in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University in India. He owns several awards like the Bharat Vikas Award, 2018 by Institute of self-reliance, India; excellence in research by 5th academic brilliance awards-17, India, and Marie Curie award 2015. He has successfully guided 11 Ph.D. and completed several research projects funded by the government of India. He holds membership of several academic bodies/societies including the Indian Botanical Society (IBS), the Directorate of Plant Biotechnology (DPB), IASR, Indian Science Congress Associations, and Ibna Sina academy of medieval medicine and Science. He published over 98 research articles, 27 book chapters and edited 3 books. His articles have been cited over 1849 times with a Google h-index of 24. He has been part of several editorial boards of journals.

• Bamboo: origin, habitat, distributions and global prospective.- Molecular markers in bamboos: understanding reproductive biology, genetic structure, interspecies diversity and clonal fidelity for conservation and breeding.- Standard protocols for in vitro propagation of bamboo with emphasis on axillary shoot proliferation.- Somatic embryogenesis in bamboos: advances and prospects.- Initiation and establishment of cell suspension culture in bamboo.- Micro-morpho-anatomical alterations in micropropagated plants of endrocalamus strictus.- Micropropagation of bamboos and clonal fidelity assessment using molecular markers.- Standardization of laboratory to land transfer strategies of micropropagated plantlets of bamboo.- Management of bamboo genetic resources and clonal production systems.- Polymorphism and phylogenetic relationships in bamboo.- Transgenics approaches in Bamboo.- Advances in Conservation of Bamboo Genetic Resources through Whole Seeds Cryopreservation.- Application of Biotechnological Tool in Bamboo Improvement.- Ethnobamboology: traditional uses of bamboos and opportunities to exploit genomic resources for better exploitation.- Bamboo flowering in South America: what the past tells about the future.- Molecular Markers in Bamboo Genotyping: Prospects for Conservation and Breeding.- Application of bamboo in the food and pharmaceutical industry.- Functional pasta: a comparative study of the use of bamboo shoot fiber and white fibers.- Bamboo fiber as a substitute for fat and/or sugar in cookies.- Practical application of bamboo as a building material: trends and challenges.