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Swarnendu Roy works as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India. He has more than 14 years of teaching experience. He has received the University Gold Medal for securing the first position at B.Sc. and the University Silver medal for securing the second position at M.Sc. level. He received the Post-Graduate Merit Scholarship for University Rank Holder, which was awarded by the Ministry of HRD and UGC (2006-2008), Government of India. He also received the CSIR Junior Research Fellowship, which was awarded by CSIR-UGC (2008). He is actively engaged in research topics encompassing plant stress management by engineered nanoparticles and the synthesis of starch-based biofilms and edible coatings. He has published more than 50 articles with high-impact factors in reputed journals, such as Water Research and Scientific Reports, among many others. He has recently edited two books and has also published several book chapters in edited volumes to date. He is a life member of prestigious societies like "The Indian Science Congress Association"; "Association of Food Scientists and Technologists (India)" and "Society of Plant Research (India)".

Khalid Rehman Hakeem is presently working as a Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completing his PhD (Botany; specialization in Plant Ecophysiology and Molecular Biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India in 2011, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar for a short period. Later he joined Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia and worked there as a Post Doctorate Fellow in 2012 and Fellow Researcher (Associate Prof.) from 2013-2016 respectively. He joined King Abdulaziz University in August 2016 and was promoted to professorship recently. He has more than ten years of teaching and research experience in Plant Eco-Physiology, Biotechnology & Molecular biology, Medicinal plant research, Plant-Microbe-soil interactions as well as in Environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels, also he has served as a Visiting Scientist at Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey as well as at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he is involved with a number of international research projects with different government organizations. So far, he has authored and edited more than 75 books with international publishers and has to his credit 160 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 65 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. At present, he is serving as the Editorial board member and reviewer of several high impact international scientific journals.

Piyush Mathur is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has been teaching for the past 6 years and has taught both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has done his PhD.in Botany with a specialization in Mycology and Plant Pathology from Delhi University. Presently, he is supervising four PhD research scholars who are working on microbial diversity, bioprospecting, and plant disease management. He has published several articles and papers in well-known international journals of good repute. He has also contributed articles as book chapters in International and National books. He is serving as a member of the editorial board of BMC Plant Biology. Dr. Mathur is an active member of the Society of Rapeseed Mustard Research (SRMR), Bharatpur, and Delhi University Botanical Society (DUBS) Delhi, India and Indian Phytopathological Society, New Delhi, India.