Plant Mutagenesis and Crop Improvement (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032492629)

Nitish Kumar has been Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India, for the last 12 years. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)--Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has research experience in a wide variety of areas in the field of crop improvement using plant biotechnology and mutation breeding techniques. He has published more than 70 research articles in leading international and national journals, more than 20 book chapters, and 7 books with Springer and Taylor & Francis. Dr. Kumar received the Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2014 He has received many awards/fellowships/projects from various prestigious Indian government organizations such as CSIR, DBT, ICAR, SERB-DST, and BRNS-BARC. He is a reviewer for various international journals and serves as an associate editor of the journal Gene (Elsevier).