Natural Metabolites as Biopesticides for Sustainable Agriculture

Author Biography

Dr. Sushil Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Botany at Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has published more than 35 research articles and chapters with publishers of international repute. He has special interests in plant secondary metabolites research and their applications in the field of biopesticide and drug discovery method. Dr. Kumar and collaborators compiled the information related to various plant groups and made available to the researchers through Food Drugs & Pharmacology platform which currently hosts four metabolite databases, and several are in progress. Dr. Kumar is a regular reviewer for several journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and Bentham Science. He is a life member of the Indian Botanical Society. He earned his higher education from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. Dr. Gourav Choudhir is a Postdoctoral Research Trainee at Institute for Bioelectronic Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, New York, USA. He is a researcher in structural biology and computational biophysics with expertise in biomolecular interactions, molecular dynamics simulations, and protein structure analysis. He completed his PhD studying protein conformational dynamics, enzyme mechanisms, and structure–function relationships using computational and bioinformatics approaches. His research interests include protein phase separation, disease-associated mutations, computational drug discovery, and AI-driven structural biology. Dr. Choudhir has international postdoctoral research experience and strong expertise in GROMACS, PyMOL, Python, Linux, and high-performance computing. His work integrates computational modeling with mechanistic insights to understand biomolecular regulation and support translational biomedical and therapeutic research. Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani, Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) Genetics and Plant Breeding Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar J&K, India. He has published more than 200 papers/chapters in journals and books of international and national repute. Presently he is also serving as Associate Editor for PCTOC, Springer and reviews editor for Frontiers in Plant Science, section Abiotic Stress in Plants. He has also edited several books published by Springer Nature and CRC press USA. He was elected as Fellow of Linnaean Society of London 2017. Recently he was felicitated with Award for Excellence in Research 2020 from Novel Research Academy, Puducherry, India. Recently Dr. Wani was selected as member of Expert Working Group (EWG) Wheat Initiative for Adaptation of Wheat to Abiotic Stress (AWAS), and Wheat Breeding Methods and Strategies (WBMS), Berlin, Germany. He has been judged as Fellow of International Society for development and Sustainability ISDS, Japan. He was also selected as member, The Royal Society of Biology, London, UK and Member NASI, India. Recently in the year 2024, he has been awarded the Fellow of the Society by Society of Wheat and Barley ICAR IIWBR Karnal. Currently, he is working as Scientist in the All India Coordinated Research Project on Seed (Crops) at SKUAST K, Shalimar.