Impact of High Night Temperature on Plant Biology: Toward Sustainable Plant Adaptation to Climate Change

Author Biography

Rajesh Kumar Singhal, PhD, vis a Scientist in the Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi (U.P), India. He has eight years of experience in different areas of plant physiology aspects, such as drought stress tolerance in rice and wheat crop, seed priming, artificial night light pollution, root physiology, multiple abiotic stresses, and metabolism related to different crops. Currently, he is working on fodder oat improvement, oat modeling for climate change, and abiotic stress in forage crops. He has published more than 40 research and review papers in highly reputed journals. He also published more than 25 chapters with Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. In addition, he has also published an MCQ book, A Quick Approach to Plant Physiology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology (1st edition 2018; 2nd edition 2020). Dr. Singhal has received NTS, JRF and SRF during his degree program, awarded by the Indian Council of Agriculture Research. His work has been cited more than 565 times (14 h-index and 21 i10 index). Raju Bheemanahalli, PhD, is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at Mississippi State University, USA. He leads multidisciplinary research to understand how crops respond to stressors (drought, heat, cold, nutrients, and others) at different growth stages. His work has resulted in improved basic and applied knowledge of monocot and dicot crops in response to stressors and management. His research provided researchers with stress-tolerant donor lines and phenotyping tools required to breed climate-ready crops. The uniqueness of the information generated from the research program assisted in sustaining food and fiber production under stressful environments across the globe. He has been actively serving on editorial boards and a reviewer of numerous journals international journals. He has published more than 55 peer-reviewed journal articles in multiple highly reputed international journals. Saurabh Pandey, PhD, is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Agriculture at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India. He has eight years of experience in different areas of plant biotechnology aspects, such as plant stress biology, plant virus interactions, abiotic stresses, bio-fortification, molecular marker studies, and metabolism related to tomato and rice crop. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals. Currently, he is working on introduction and biotic stress management of unconventional crops, like banana and apple, in the Punjab region for screening and analysis of banana germplasms for banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) tolerance and establishing screening methods and biomarkers for microbiological resources towards improved crop phosphorous (P) uptake under highly P-deficient soils in the Punjab region. Pratibha M. D., PhD, is currently working as a Scientist in the Division of Basic Sciences at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. She has 10 years of experience in different areas of plant physiology, plant pathology, nematology, and molecular breeding in rice and vegetables. Her areas of specialization include genomics, metabolomics, root physiology, carbon isotope discrimination, and epicuticle wax under multiple biotic and abiotic stress conditions. Currently, she is working on identifying molecular mechanisms conferring combinatorial stress tolerance in brinjal (eggplant). She has also worked at Monsanto Holding Pvt. Ltd. as vegetable backcross breeder, contributing to the development of more than 15 hybrids in tomato and hot pepper.