Omics and System Biology Approaches for Delivering Better Cereals

Provides a comprehensive coverage of various omics approaches used to improve cereals in terms of yield, quality, and stress resilience. It offers insights into the promises and challenges of multi-omics data integration, guiding future advancements in cereal research with recent breakthroughs in systems and integrative biology.

Dr. Dinesh Kumar Saini, a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Plant and Soil Science at Texas Tech University, Texas, USA, has significant research expertise in Plant Breeding, Genomics, Physiology, Crop Modeling, and Crop Biotechnology. He earned his Bachelor of Science (Agriculture) and Master of Science (Genetics and Plant Breeding) degrees from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh (India). He has qualified for several national level exams (in India), including ICAR-SRF and ASRB-NET in Plant Breeding and Genetics, as well as GATE in Life Science. During his Ph.D. program at Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana, Punjab, he was also awarded prestigious fellowships such as DST-INSPIRE and ICAR-SRF. He has received a number of medals, including the Chancellor Silver Medal, Vice-Chancellor Gold Medal (twice), Dr. M.S. Randhawa Medal, Best Research Scholar Award(s), Student of the Year Award, Best Poster Presentation Award, etc. He has also contributed to the development of a comprehensive wheat QTL database (http: //wheatqtldb.net/) as a core member. He has co-authored more than 30 articles published in international journals of repute such as Theoretical and Applied Genetics, The Plant Genome, Frontiers in Plant Science, Scientific Reports (Nature), Planta, Frontiers in Genetics, Molecular Breeding, Plos One, BMC Genomics, Agronomy, Scientia Horticulturae, Plants, Plant Phenomics, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, Cereal Research Communications, etc. Further, he has co-authored 13 book chapters, 8 popular articles, and 10 abstracts and contributed to two international annual wheat newsletters. He is also continuously involved in reviewing the articles for reputed journals including Theoretical and Applied Genetics, The Plant Genome, BMC Genomics, BMC Plant Biology, Molecular Breeding, Molecular Biology Reports, Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Genetics, Plos One, etc. He is a member of several professional societies including Crop Science Society of America (CSSA; https: //www.crops.org/), American Society of Agronomy (ASA; https: //www.agronomy.org/), Society for Advancement of Wheat and Barley Research (SAWBAR; https: //sawbar.in/), Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding (ISGPB; https: //www.isgpb.org), Bioinformatics Club for Experimenting Scientists (Bioclues; http: //bioclues.org/), Agricultural & Environmental Technology Development Society (AETDS; https: //www.agetds.com/), and All India Agricultural Students Association (AIASA; www.aiasa.org.in).

Prof. Chittaranjan Kole is an internationally reputed scientist with an illustrious professional career of spanning over thirty-eight years and original contributions in the fields of plant genomics, biotechnology and molecular breeding leading to the publication of more than 160 quality research articles and reviews. He has edited over 170 books for the leading publishers of the world including Springer, Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor and Francis Group. His scientific contributions and editing acumen have been appreciated by seven Nobel Laureates including Profs. Norman Borlaug, Arthur Kornberg, Werner Arber, Phillip Sharp, Günter Blobel, Lee Hartwell and Roger Kornberg. He has been honored with a number of Fellowships, Honorary Fellowships, and national and international awards including the Outstanding Crop Scientist award conferred by the International Crop Science Society. He has served at all prestigious positions in academia including as Vice-Chancellor BC Agricultural university, Project Coordinator of Indo-Russian Center of Biotechnology in India, and Director of Research of Institute of Nutraceutical Research of Clemson University, in USA. He worked also in the Pennsylvania State University and Clemson University as Visiting Professor in USA. He was awarded with the Raja Ramanna Fellow by the Department of Energy, Government of India. He is also heading the International Climate-Resilient Crop Genomics Consortium and International consortium for Phytomedomics and Nutriomics as their founding Principal Coordinator and presently as President.