P.B. Kavi KishorP.B. Kavi Kishor earned a PhD in Botany in 1981 from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and joined Osmania University’s Department of Genetics the same year, where he served until 2011. He was a CSIR Emeritus Scientist through 2019 and no mentors startup projects under the DBT-BIRAC program. He spent 1992–1994 at The Ohio State University’s Biotechnology Center under a Rockefeller Foundation program and has held Visiting Professorships at Emory University, Linköping University, and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research. An award-winning author/editor, he is ranked among the world’s top 2% of scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier. Prof. Kishor is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Indian Botanical Society, the Andhra Pradesh Akademy of Sciences, and the Telangana Academy of Sciences, and an elected member of the Plant Tissue Culture Association of India. His research spans ontogeny and abiotic stress responses, with pioneering results informing cancer biology and therapeutics. He has also sequenced groundnut and chickpea genomes, advancing understanding of salt, drought, and heat stress mechanisms to improve crops in saline and water-deficit soils. Read More Read Less