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Mahendra Rai, Ph.D. is a Senior Professor and UGC-Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow at the Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Maharashtra, India. He was Visiting Scientist in University of Geneva, Debrecen University, Hungary; University of Campinas, Brazil; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, and National University of Rosario, Argentina. He has published more than 400 research papers in national and international journals. In addition, he has edited/authored more than 48 books and 6 patents.





Kamel Abd-Elsalam, Ph.D. is a head researcher at Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt. Dr. Kamel's research interests include molecular plant pathology and developing eco-friendly hybrid nanomaterials for controlling plant diseases. He has published, 4 books, and more than 120 research articles.


Dr. Kamel served as visiting scholar in Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, Thailand, Institute of Microbiology, TUM, Germany, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands and Plant Protection Department, Sassari University, Italy.?





Dr. Avinash P. Ingle has completed his doctoral degree from Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra (India). He had worked as Research Scientist in the same department from 2013-2016. He has more than 65 research publications, 38 book chapters and 3 books to his credit. He has been awarded travel grants from different funding agencies to present his research work in international conferences held at Malaysia, China, Spain and France. Currently, Dr. Ingle is working as Post-Doctoral Fellow at Department of Biotechnology, Engineering School of Lorena -University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and area of his research interest include plant pathology, nanobiotechnology and biofuel production.