Sustainable Utilisation and Bioengineering of Halophytes

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Dr. Jaya Arora Assistant Professor Department of Botany Mohanlal Sukhadia University Udaipur India has been teaching Botany since 2012. She did her M.Sc and Ph.D. in Botany with a specialization in plant tissue culture and secondary metabolite production from Mohanlal Sukhadia University. She had qualified CSIR-NET-SRF and was awarded the Maharana Fateh Singh Award in 2000 for meritorious performance during her matriculation and the Gargi Award and Scholarship for matriculation by Govt. of Rajasthan India 2000. She has 14 years of research experience with one UGC start-up completed project (2013-2015) and mentored one Women Scientists Scheme-A project (2016-2019) funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology Department of Science and Technology Govt. of India. Currently she is Co-PI in two different projects funded by MHRD RUSA 2.0 India. Her research group has published research papers in various international repute journals with high impact factors such as Acta Physiologiae Plantarum In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology Plant Bioengineered Frontiers in Plant Science Nanomaterials Biofuels Biologia Futura Horticulturae Plants etc. dealing with plant biotechnology proteomics (bioactive peptides) natural products secondary metabolite production seed biology studies and conservation of medicinal plants. Dr. Arora has edited and authored 6 books including publications with prestigious publishing houses mainly Springer Cham. This work was funded by various funding agencies like U.G.C. C.S.I.R and D.S.T. Currently she is supervising 4 Ph.D. Students and 2 students have been awarded Ph.D. degree. Dr. Marius-Nicusor Grigore is an editor PhD at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press and adjunct professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and Doctoral School of Biology from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iai. He received his BSc and PhD in Biology and M.Sc in Educational Sciences from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iai Romania. He was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow in the field of halophytes ecophysiology at the same university as well as an invited researcher at the Polytechnic University of Valencia Spain. His primary research interests are in the ecology anatomy and physiology of halophytes and plant responses to abiotic (salt drought) stress as well as in Didactics of Biology. He has published 11 books 9 book chapters and over 80 peer-reviewed papers on halophytes. In 2016 he was awarded the Romanian Academys `Emil Racovi` prize for the book - Halophytes: An Integrative Anatomical Study published with Springer in 2014; Handbook of Halophytes: From Molecules to Ecosystems towards Biosaline Agriculture Springer was awarded the scientific merit `Nicolae Giosan` by The Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences Gheorghe Ionescu-ieti Bucureti Romania in November 2022. He coordinated national projects and conducted many scientific missions abroad at Polytechnic University of Valencia Spain in the field of biochemistry and ecophysiology of halophytes and plant responses to salt stress. Dr. Abhishek Joshi is currently associated with research and teaching at the Department of Botany Mohanlal Sukhadia University Udaipur India. He did his M.Sc and Ph.D. in Botany with a specialization in plant tissue culture and secondary metabolite production from Department of Botany Mohanlal Sukhadia University. Joshi's doctoral research was focused on unravelling the biochemical and molecular mechanisms that enable halophytes to thrive in saline conditions. He has 10 years of research experience on halophytes occurring in Southern Rajasthan of Indian subcontinent with 1 e-book and 34 publications in international repute journals and books with one edited book published with a prestigious publishing house.