Jay Prakash Verma
Senior Assistant Professor
Banaras Hindu University
India
Biography
Dr. Jay Prakash Verma has done his M.Sc. (2006) and Ph.D. (2010) on plant-microbes’ interaction and PGPR from Department of Botany, BHU. Presently, he is working as a Senior Assistant Professor in IESD, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India since 26 Feb, 2011. He is presently a Visiting fellow at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia and his research work on the core microbiome of cotton plants at Western Sydney University since 1 Dec, 2017 to 31 July, 2018. He has more than 11-year research expertise on rhizosphere microbes and development of effective plant growth promoting microbial consortium as biofertilizer, bio stimulators for multiple crop production. His research expertise encompasses Biofertilizer, Phytomicobiome, Bio-pesticide, PGPR, PGPF, Sustainable Agriculture, Plant-Soil-Microbe Interaction, Soil Fertility and Soil Health Management, Pesticide Degrading Microbes for bioremediation, soil molecular biology and climate resilient agricultural production, Bioethanol Production. He has more than 70 articles that have been cited more than 1842 times (Google citations) and has a cumulative impact factor of more than 120. He has more than 8 research project related to plant-microbe interactions. He has visited Spain, Paris and Shanghai, China countries. He is serving as Technical Editor for several international Journals; Biotechnology, Journal of Applied Sciences, International Journal of Soil Science, Asian Journal of Biological Sciences and Bacteriology Journal. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the journals Agriculture for Sustainable Development published by Social and Farmers Welfare Society, Journal of Environmental and Social Sciences, International Journal of Research Studies in Microbiology and Biotechnology, International Journal of Research Studies in Agricultural Sciences, International Journal of Research in Environmental Science, Microbial Biosystems Journal (The Arab Society for Fungal Conservation). He acts as a reviewer for various peer reviewed national and international journals of publishers e.g. Nature publishing group, Elsevier, Springer, Willy, Taylor and Francis. We are also Project evaluator: Evaluator of The Czech Academy of Sciences, Science Support Division in Czech Republic, European Commission for expert as project evaluator.
Research Interest
Microbiology, Biotechnology