Editors
Editors-in-Chief
Rana Pratap Singh, Department of Environmental Sciences
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University
Rae Bareli Road, Lucknow - 226 025, India
E-mail: pmbpeditor@gmail.com
Nandula Raghuram, School of Biotechnology,
GGS Indraprastha University, Dwarka,
New Delhi - 110 078, India
E-mail: pmbp@ipu.ac.in
Editors
Gabriella Szalai, Agri. Res. Instt., Hungary
P.K. Nagar, India
Iyyakannu Sivanesan, Gyeongsang University, Korea
Atul Grover, DIBER, Haldwani, India
Manoj Prasad, NIPGR, New Delhi
Umesh K. Reddy, West Virginia State University
Marian Bresticˇ, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia
K.V. Bhat, NBPGR, India
Albino Maggio, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Lean-Teik Ng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Associate Editors
Shaoliang Chen, Beijing Forestry Univ, China
Shiela Macfie, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada
R.D. Tripathi, NBRI, RP Marg, Lucknow, India
Madhusudhana Reddy Janga, Texas A&M University, USA
Edyta Paczos-Grzêda, University of Life sciences in Lublin, Poland
Yunpeng Cao, Anhui Agricultural University, China
Mohamed El-Soda, Cairo University, Egypt
Magda Pál, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre, Hungary
Lei Huang, Purdue University, USA
Priyanka Mishra, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Soumendra K. Naik, Ravenshaw University, India
Assistant Editors
M. Suhail Khan, USBT, GGSIPU Univ, Delhi
Sunila Lochab, Ram Lal Anand College, Delhi
Irum Rizvi, USBT, GGSIPU Univ, Delhi
Editorial Board
Reto J. Strasser, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
Andrew Rubin, IPP, Moscow, Russia
Huanming Yang, Beijing Genomics Instt., China
David Lightfoot, Univ. of Southern Illinois, USA
T. Yamaya, TU, Sendei, Japan
Gopinadhan Paliyath, Univ. of Guelph, Canada
N.P.A. Honner, UWO, London, Canada
Carlos Pimentel, UFRRJ, Seropedica, Brazil
Erwin Grill, Tech. Univ. of Munich, Germany
W.M. Kaiser, Würzburg, Germany
Nancy Roasens, LPGMP, Brussels, Belgium
Josè Botella, University of Queensland, Australia
Shivendra V. Sahi, Western Kentucky Univ, USA
Idah Sithole-Niang, Univ. of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
P.V. Sane, Lucknow, India
S.K. Sopory, JNU (Retd.), Faridabad, India
V. Sitaramam, Univ. of Pune (Retd.), Pune, India
B.C. Tripathy, JNU, New Delhi, India
J.P. Khurana, DUSC, New Delhi, India
P. Pardhasaradhi, DU, Delhi
K. Veluthambi, MKU (Retd.), Madurai, India
Probodh K. Trivedi, NBRI, Lucknow, India
P.K. Seth, Biotech Park, Lucknow, India
Pramod K. Tandon, CEO, Biotech Park, Lucknow, India
Lingaraj Sahoo, IIT, Guwahati, India
President
Prof. S. K. Barik
Vice Presidents
Prof. R. D. Tripathi
Prof. U.N. Dwivedi
Prof. N. K. Arora
General Secretary
Prof. Rana Pratap Singh
Joint Secretaries
Prof. Malvika Srivastava
Prof. C. Rajasekaran
Prof. Ranjan Das
Dr. Kuldeep Bauddh
Dr. Preeti Choudhari
Executive Members
Prof. P.V. Sane
Prof. R.S. Dwivedi
Prof. H. B. Singh
Prof. Anil Prakash
Dr. Renu Tripathi
Dr. Nandita Singh
Exe. Sec. (HQ) cum Treasurer
Mr. A.K. Jain