Amit YadavAmit Yadav, Ph. D. is a Scientist at National Centre for Cell Science at Pune, India. He carried out his doctoral studies on ‘Sugarcane Grassy Shoot’ (SCGS) phytoplasma from University of Pune, Pune. Currently, his research group is involved in perusng research on ‘Candidatus phytoplasma’ involving the functional genomics, epidemiology, detection and diagnosis, plant-insect-phytoplasma interactions, and taxonomy. ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma’ is a ‘not-yet-cultured’ plant pathogenic bacteria involved in devastating diseases in economically important plants across the globe. Dr Yadav is currently working on epidemiology of Sandalwood Spike Disease related to ‘Ca. P. asteris’ and genome characterisation of Peanut Witches’ Broom (PWB) phytoplasma associated with Glycine max and Parthenium hysteroporous. He has published 58 peer-reviewed research articles which includes the reports on phytoplasma diseases on different plant species, phytoplasma genome sequencing and genome characterizations. He is review editor of specialty section in Frontiers in Microbiology: Microbe and Virus Interactions with Plants and Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology (specialty section of ‘Frontiers in

Microbiology’, ‘Frontiers in Genetics’ and ‘Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution). Also, he is editorial member of ‘Phytopathogenic Mollicutes’, a journal dedicated to phytoplasma studies. Dr Yadav is a member of Bergey's International Society for Microbial Systematics (BISMiS), Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), Indian Association of Mycoplasmologists (IAM), International Organization of Mycoplasmology (IOM) and a member of board of studies in Botany at Sir Parashurambhau College, Pune. Read More Read Less