List of Contributors

Sipla Aggarwal
Department of Biotechnology
National Institute of Plant Genome Research
Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus
New Delhi, India

Sibtain Ahmad
University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Sub-Campus Depalpur
Okara
Punjab, Pakistan
Animal Breeding and Genetics
Faculty of Animal husbandry
University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Punjab, Pakistan

Habib Ali
Department of Agricultural Engineering
Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology
Rahim Yar Khan
Punjab, Pakistan

Kazim Ali
National Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology
National Agricultural Research Centre
Park Road, Islamabad 45500
Pakistan

Mohsin Ali
University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Sub-Campus Depalpur
Okara
Punjab, Pakistan

Imran Amin
Agricultural Biotechnology Division
National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE)
Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Faisalabad, Pakistan

Galal Bakr Anis
Rice Research and Training Center (RRTC)
Rice Research Department
Field Crops Research Institute
Agricultural Research Center
Sakha
Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt

Naveed Anjum
Agricultural Biotechnology Division
National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE)
Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Faisalabad, Pakistan
Department of Biotechnology
University of Sialkot
Sialkot
Punjab, Pakistan

Bilal Ahmad Asad
University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Sub-Campus Depalpur
Okara
Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Qasim Aslam
Agricultural Biotechnology Division
National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE)
Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Faisalabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Jawad Akbar Awan
Agricultural Biotechnology Division
National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE)
Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Faisalabad, Pakistan

Uzma Badar
Cell and Systems Biology
University of Toronto
Toronto
Ontario, Canada

Poorwa Kamal Badola
CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-NBRI)
Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh, India
Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR)
Ghaziabad,
Uttar Pradesh, India

Deepak Singh Bagri
Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology
Department of Biotechnology
Dr Harisingh Gour Central University
Sagar
Madhya Pradesh, India
Department of Botany
Government Degree College
Amanganj, Panna
Madhya Pradesh, India

Kaushal Kumar Bhati
Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science
Catholic University of Louvain
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Siddhant Chaturvedi
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI)
Department of Biotechnology
Ministry of Science and Technology (Government of India)
Mohali
Punjab, India
Department of Biotechnology
Panjab University
Chandigarh, India

Roni Chaudhary
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI)
Department of Biotechnology
Ministry of Science and Technology (Government of India)
Mohali
Punjab, India

Sameer Dixit
Department of Biology
University of Western Ontario
London
Ontario, Canada

Conrado Dueñas, Jr.
Trait and Genome Engineering Cluster
Strategic Innovation Platform
International Rice Research Institute
Manila, Philippines

Sajid Fiaz
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics
The University of Haripur 22620
Haripur
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Mahmoud Mohamed Gaballah
Rice Research and Training Center (RRTC)
Rice Research Department
Field Crops Research Institute
Agricultural Research Center
Sakha
Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt

Vikrant Gautam
ICAR-NBPGR
New Delhi, 110012, India

Ghyda Murad Hashim
Cell and Systems Biology
University of Toronto
Toronto
Ontario, Canada

Kathleen Hefferon
Cell and Systems Biology
University of Toronto
Toronto
Ontario, Canada

Bostjan Jencic
Jozef Stefan Institute
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ajinder Kaur
School of Agricultural Biotechnology
Punjab Agricultural University
Ludhiana
Punjab, India

Gurminder Kaur
Institute of Bioscience and Technology
Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University
Barabanki
Uttar Pradesh, India

Sher Aslam Khan
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics
The University of Haripur 22620
Haripur
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Muhammad Zuhaib Khan
Agricultural Biotechnology Division
National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE)
Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Faisalabad, Pakistan

Ivan Kreft
Nutrition Institute
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ajay Kumar
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR-NBRI)
Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh, India

Anil Kumar
Department of Biotechnology
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute
Mohali
Punjab, India

Pankaj Kumar
ICAR-CPRI
Shimla, 171001, India

Peter Kump
Jozef Stefan Institute
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Nirbhay Kumar Kushwaha
Department of Plant Biology
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Uppsala, Sweden

Shahid Mansoor
Agricultural Biotechnology Division
National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE)
Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Faisalabad, Pakistan

Varsha Meena
Department of Biotechnology
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute
Mohali
Punjab, India

Gela Myan B. Mota
Trait and Genome Engineering Cluster
Strategic Innovation Platform
International Rice Research Institute
Manila, Philippines

Mehmood Ali Noor
Institute of Crop Sciences
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecology
Ministry of Agriculture
Beijing 100081, China

Azka Noureen
Agricultural Biotechnology Division
National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE)
Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Faisalabad, Pakistan
University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology (UIBB)
Pir Mehar Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University
Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Norman Oliva
Trait and Genome Engineering Cluster
Strategic Innovation Platform
International Rice Research Institute
Manila, Philippines

Ajay K. Pandey
Department of Biotechnology
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute
Mohali
Punjab, India

Ashish Kumar Pathak
Department of Botany
Charles University
Praha 2
Czech Republic

Primoz Pelicon
Jozef Stefan Institute
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Paula Pongrac
Biotechnical Faculty
University of Ljubljana
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jozef Stefan Institute
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Pravin Prakash
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR-NBRI)
Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh, India

Krishan Mohan Rai
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of Minnesota
Saint Paul
MN, USA

Hasthi Ram
Department of Agri-Biotechnology
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute
Mohali
Punjab, India

Gurwinder Singh Rana
AFC
New Delhi, India

Marjana Regvar
Biotechnical Faculty
University of Ljubljana
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Riyazuddin Riyazuddin
Department of Plant Biology and Doctoral School in Biology
Faculty of Science and Informatics
University of Szeged
Szeged, Hungary

Joy K. Roy
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI)
Mohali
Punjab, India

Shweta Roy
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden

Suchismita Roy
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of California
San Diego
CA, USA

Ashish Sharma
CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-NBRI)
Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh, India
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