Jeyabalan Sangeetha, PhD, is Assistant Professor at Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, South India. She has edited/coedited 20 books in her research areas related to environmental and microbiology. She is the recipient of a Tamil Nadu Government Scholarship and a Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship of the University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of India for her doctoral studies. She served as Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow and UGC Postdoctoral Fellow at Karnatak University, Dharwad, South India.

Devarajan Thangadurai, PhD, is Professor at Karnatak University in South India. He has authored/edited over 30 books has visited 24 countries for academic visits, scientific meetings, and international collaborations. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Madeira, Portugal; University of Delhi, India; and ICAR National Research Centre for Banana, India. He is the series editor for the AAP book series Innovations in Biotechnology.

Saher Islam, PhD, is a Postdoctoral researcher at the university of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA. She worked at Cornell University, New York, and West Virginia State University, as a visiting scholar. She has keen research interests in genetics, molecular biology, biotechnology, and bioinformatics with hands-on experience in molecular analysis, whole genome sequencing (WGS), and RNA sequencing. She is a recipient of a 2016 Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Travel Grant from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany. She is an author/coauthor of more than 60 publications.

Ravichandra Hospet, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CSIR-CFTRI), Mysore, India. He has research interests in fermentation technology, agrobiotechnology, agronanotechnology, and biofumigation technology. His research expertise includes improvement of agriculturally and industrially important microbial strains, development of novel strategies for fruit wine production, and scaling up biofumigation technology for the protection of stored food commodities. He is also the recipient of DBT-KUD IPLS Fellowship. He has authored/co-authored more than 30 publications in high-impact journals.