Biosynthesis of Natural Products in Plants

1. Bioengineering for production of biological active compounds in Plants.- 2. Molecular alterations for the enhancement of natural products in plants.- 3. Enhancement of Natural products in plant in the Post-Genomics Era: The new era of natural drug discovery.- 4. Biotechnology Towards improvement of Plants for Enhancement of natural products.- 5. CRISPR-based plants improvements for boosting the natural products.- 6. RNAi interference mechanism and application in plants for enhancement of natural products.- 7. In Silico Characterization of Natural Products in Plants.- 8. Integrated high throughput omics approaches in production of Natural Products in Plant.- 9. Production of Plant Derived Natural Compounds through Hairy Root Culture.- 10. Synthetic biology of plants derived medicinal natural products.- 11. Plant Cell and Tissue Culture: Propagation, Improvement, and Conservation of Medicinal Plants.- 12. Advanced Systems and Bioreactors for Large-scale Secondary Metabolite Production in Medicinal Plants Using Suspension Cultured Cells.- 13. Exploring molecular diversity of plants for enhancement of natural products.- 14. Conventional approaches towards improvement of Plants for Enhancement of natural products Production.- 15.Bioengineering Strategy for production of plant based high valued natural products.- 16. Biosynthesis and Synthetic Biology of Fluorinated Products in Plants.- 17. Progress in the Secondary Metabolite Production in Medicinal Plants - An Overview.

Dr. Nitish Kumar is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Bihar, India. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has a wide area of research experience in the field of agriculture and medicinal plants improvement and possesses a strong publication record. Dr. Kumar is a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2014. He has also received many awards/fellowships/projects from various prestigious government organizations like CSIR, DBT, ICAR and SERB-DST, BRNS-BARC, among others.