Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 57

Preface.- 1. Impact of sex steroids on the stress response and welfare in female farm ruminants (Aline Freitas-de-Melo and Rodolfo Ungerfeld).- 2. Insights from proteomics in kidney disease diagnosis and various in vitro and in vivo experimental models (Vikram Patial, Garima Dadhich, and Rajiv Kumar).- 3. Generation of gene edited pigs (S. Navarro-Serna, C. Piñeiro-Silva, R Romar, J. Parrington, and J Gadea).- 4. Dietary anti-nutritional factors and their roles in livestock nutrition (Salma H. Abu Hafsa, Ayman A. Hassan, Mona M.MY. Elghandour, Alberto Barbabosa-Pliego, Miguel Mellado, and Abdelfattah Z.M. Salem).- 5. Genetic engineering tools and techniques in livestock production (Ranjitha H.B., Madhu Ramesh, Subhasmita Behera, Dhanesh ValiyaValappil, Suresh H. Basagoudanavar, and Anjum Sherasiya).- 6. Mineral Ions in Regulation of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Ovarian Axis (Mustafa Hassan Jan, Harpreet Singh, and Shikha Kapil).- 7. Molecular Insights ofCompromised Female Reproduction in Ruminants under Metabolic and Nutritional Stress (S. Nandi, S. K Tripathi, PSP Gupta, and S. Mondal).- Index.

Dr. Vinod Kumar Yata is an interdisciplinary researcher working at National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India. Previously, he worked as an Assistant professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He specializes in interdisciplinary research which includes Nanotechnology, Microfluidics, Animal Biotechnology, Cancer biology and Bioinformatics. He has developed a microfluidic device for the separation of live and motile spermatozoa form cattle semen samples. His research interests have been focused on the development of nanocarriers, understanding prodrug enzyme therapy, and targeted drug delivery. He elucidated the structural features and binding interactions of several biomolecules by in silico methods. He has published four books as an editor and one book as an author with Springer Nature publisher. He has publishedseveral research papers in peer reviewed international journals and presented papers in several international conferences.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Mohanty is an eminent scientist in Animal Biotechnology and is currently serving as Joint Director, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar, Uttarakhand, India.  His group is involved in various basic and applied research related to animal production systems. His research group has made pioneering contributions in the field of Animal Biotechnology, with emphasis on Gene cloning, Expression and Functional characterization of Animal Proteins, Proteomics in Animal Production, Cell and Molecular Biology and Structural Biology of Proteins. His group has developed a Buffalo Mammary Epithelial cell line for the first time which can be used as a model system to understand lactation biology in animal as well as human. His team has also developed a pregnancy diagnostic kit for the early detection of pregnancy cattle and buffalo. His