MicroRNA Advances and Application in Plant Biology Plant Biology, sustainability and climate change Series

1. Plant microRNAs: An overview: What are microRNAs, their origin, and their function in plants?
2. Genetic modification of plants using microRNAs
3. Plant Development: What Role Do MicroRNAs Play?
4. Root architecture and microRNAs: A key role for microRNAs
5. Tolerance-enhancing microRNA: a new target for plants:
6. Regulatory role of Micro RNA in plants during development with respect to Root and shoot architecture and secondary growth
7. Homeostasis in plant micro RNAs
8. microRNAs tools for gene silencing
9. microRNAs tools for horticulture crops
10. microRNAs in monocot plants like Rice, Wheat, and Sugarcane
11. microRNAs in Dicot plants like Arabidopsis
12. microRNAs in legumes and symbiotic association with rhizobacteria
13. Artificial microRNAs in Plants
14. microRNAs in unicellular organisms a comparative analysis
15. MicroRNA databases and bioinformatics analysis

Dr Rahul Datta is Asst. Professor in the field of Soil Science currently is working at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. His research has focused largely on increasing crop productivity using “green” and sustainable methods. Some of the most notable problems he has addressed through his research are drought stress, heavy metal toxicity in soil, and climate change greenhouse gas. His research has helped in increasing the quality and productivity of staple crops like wheat maize, barley, rice, and other crops like mangoes, spinach, and cotton. His work has been cited in excess of 2200 times. He has published extensively and is an editorial board member of the journals PlosOne, Sustainability (MDPI), BMC Plant Biology and Open Agriculture, in which he is overseeing a special issue on current trends in agriculture (MDPI). At present, He is also a member of the Soil Science Society of America.
Dr Meenakshi Sharma is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Life Sciences, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi. She obtained her M.Phil. degree in Microbiology and Biotechnology from Department of Botany, University of Delhi, and Ph.D. degree in Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnology from the Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE) University of Delhi. She has been working as Post-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory at Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR) Delhi. Her main areas of research are microbial biodiversity, Restoration Ecology, genomics, antimicrobial activity, Plant Growth Promoting Molecules, Siderophore and Telomerase inhibitors. She has published papers in scientific journals such as Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Plant and Soil, Journal of Basic Microbiology, Soil and Tillage Research, International Agrophysics etc. She has more than 11 years of teaching experience in plant Science, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology and life science.
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