Plant-Microbe Interaction: An Approach to Sustainable Agriculture (PDF)

2013, sponsored by the Association of Microbiologists of India. Besides, several other achievements has been credited in his account.

Prof. Dr. Narendra Tuteja

Dr. Narendra Tuteja, presently acting as Director, Amity Institute of Microbial Technology (AIMT), Amity University Uttar Pradesh (AUUP), Noida. Before joining AIMT he spent years as Group Leader & Senior Scientist, International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi. Sp: Plant molecular biology/biotechnology/stress tolerance/plant-microbes interactions. Academically Dr. Tuteja completed his M.Sc. (1977), Ph.D (1982) & D.Sc. (2008) in subject Biochemistry from University of Lucknow. Professionally he served as Group Leader & Senior Scientist (2012-2015), Plant Molecular Biology Group (PMB), International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi; Senior Scientist (2008-11) PMB Group, ICGEB, New Delhi; Associate Scientist (1997-2007) PMB Group, ICGEB, New Delhi; Group Leader & Associate Scientist (1995-1997) PMB Group, ICGEB, New Delhi; Assistant Research Scientist (1988-1995) Molecular Biol. Group, ICGEB, Trieste, Italy; Postdoctoral Fellow (1986-1988) UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; Visiting Scientist (1983-1986) NIH (NCI and NICHHD), Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Research Assistant (1977-1983) K.G. Medical College, Lucknow, UP, India. Based on his contribution to science & society he has been elected as Fellow for various science academies India/abroad; Fellow of "Third Word Academy of Sciences", Trieste, Italy (FTWAS), Fellow of "National Academy of Agricultural Sciences", New Delhi (FNAAS), Fellow of "National Environmental Science Academy", New Delhi (FNESA), Fellow of "Indian Academy of Sciences", Bangalore (FASc.), Fellow of "Indian National Science Academy", Fellow of "National Academy of Sciences", Allahabad (FNASc.). Besides he has served as an expert member for various advisory committees and Task Force constituted by GOI; Advisory Committee of "Bejo Sheetal Bioscience Foundation", Jalna, MR, India, Task Force Expert Member of the Plant Sciences Research Committee of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, Expert Member of the Academic Committee meeting of Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), CSIR, Lucknow, Task Force Expert Member of Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, New Delhi and Expert Member of Advisory Board, Agricultural Scientist Recruitment Board, New Delhi. Dr. Tuteja has become as associate Editor for Plant Signaling & Behavior (PSB) (Landes Bioscience, Austin, USA), Editor-in-Chief for Plant Signaling & Behavior (PSB) Vol. 6, Issue 2, Feb. 2011; Special issue on Plant abiotic stress. (Landes Bioscience, Austin, USA). In addition his name was included in the list of Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for The Open Plant Science Journal, Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. Oak Park, IL, USA, Arch. Biochem. Biophys (ABB), Elsevier, New Your, USA, and Plant Physiol. Biochem. (PPB), Elsevier, New Your, USA.

Prof. Dr. Ajit Varma



Dr. Varma completed his M.Sc. (1959) & Ph.D. (1964) degrees at Allahabad University, Allahabad, India. In the course of his professional career, he has also served as a Microbiologist (Assistant Professor), IARI, New Delhi (1963-1971), Senior Microbiologist (Associate Professor), IARI, New Delhi (1971-1974), Associate Professor, JNU, New Delhi (1975-1984), and Professor, JNU, New Delhi (1985-2004). He has been a visiting professor & visiting research scientist at the Technical University, Graz (Austria), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen (Germany), Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Germany), Philipps University, Marburg (Germany), Technical University, Munich (Germany), Kingston (Jamaica), Max Planck Visiting Professorship (Germany), Helmholtz Zentrum, Muenchen (Germany), Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany), CSIC, Madrid (Spain), University of Dundee (Scotland), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and ICGEB (Italy). His international awards/fellowships include the Commonwealth Fellowship (Australia), National Research Council (Canada), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), National Science Foundation (USA), Indo-Czechoslovakia Exchange Programme (Prague), DAAD Fellowship (Germany), and the Deutsches BMFT Programme, George-August University, Gottingen (Germany), RAISA. He was awarded a fellowship for Innovative Research in Biotechnology (Italy), Swiss Federal Research Fellowship (Switzerland), the BP Koirala award (Nepal) and DFG-INSA Fellowship (Indo- Germany), as well as the FAMI Award-Association of Microbiologists of India and Honorary Diploma, UMF, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Dr. Varma has successfully completed major projects as PI sponsored by DBT, DST, DRDO & ICAR. Besides, he has supervised more than 60 PhD students and published over 300 research articles for national and international journals of repute, as well as several major review articles and chapters in books. He has published 50 books in the area of Microbial Technology, published by Academic Press, London, CRC Press, Florida, USA, IDRC, Canada and Springer-Verlag, Germany. Dr. Varma has been the series editor for Springer-Verlag's Series on Soil Biology, and has edited fifty volumes on Soil Biology. He was also nominated as Editor-in-Chief by IK Internationals to make series of books on Microbial and Biotechnological Research. Dr. Varma has been a member of the National Academy of Agriculture Sciences (FNAAS), International Society of Symbiosis, Boston, USA, Indian Science Congress Association, Executive Council, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, University Research Council, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Academic Council, Amity University Rajasthan, ASSOCHAM Knowledge Millennium Council, ASSOCHAM Expert Committee on Agriculture and Food Processing, and ASSOCHAM Expert Committee on S&T and Innovation. He has vast experience in organizing national and international training workshops/symposia and congresses.