Elucidating Diversity of Transcription Factors to Develop Stress- Tolerant Crops: An Overview

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With more than 21 years of experience in research and teaching, Professor Dinesh Yadav holds s p e c i a l i z a t i o n i n m o l e c u l a r b i o l o g y , bioinformatics, plant biotechnology, and enzyme technology. Presently he is working on Plant specic transcription factor-DOF (DNA binding with one nger) and Nuclear Factor-Y (NF-Y) for developing biotic and abiotic stress tolerance crops and pectinases group of enzymes with potential applications in different industries. He has served as Head, Department of Biotechnology, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University and as Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering at G.B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. He has availed DST-BOYSCAST Fellowship at Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG), University of Adelaide, South Australia. He is also recipient of Dr. Pushpendra Kumar Gupta Vishisht Krishi Vaigyanik Puraskar-2015 in the eld of Agricultural Sciences by Uttar Pradesh Academy of Agricultural Sciences (UPAAS), Lucknow, and Young Scientist Award-2008 by Uttarakhand State Council of Science & Technology in the discipline Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Microbiology. With more than 130 research publications to his credit and more than 230 GenBank accession numbers, he has guided 12 doctorate students and mentored DST and SERB fellows. Currently, he is the Coordinator of Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics and Nodal ofcer IPR cell, DDU Gorakhpur University. His areas of specialization include Molecular biology,