Mukesh MeenaMukesh Meena is an assistant professor at the Department of Botany at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, in India. His areas of research and work expertise are; plant-microbial interactions, fungal biology, toxic metabolites, plnt-pathogen interaction, plant growth promoting microbes, fungal bio-molecules, induced resistance, programmed cell death, biological control, rhizobacteria, environment, heavy metal stress, and molecular markers. He has been honored with several fellowship awards in his career including Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship (RGNF), UGC Research Fellowship in Science. He has authored several research articles related to isolation and characterization of fungal toxins, applications of fungal glucose oxidase, fungal toxins, production and technological applications of enzymes from microbial sources, beneficial microbes for disease suppression and plant growth promotion. He has published more than 80 peer reviewed international publications and more than 45 book chapters. He has also published three books with international publishers. Read More Read Less