Editorial Team

Dr. Ram Asrey

Editor-in-Chief

Principal Scientist & Professor
Food Science &Postharvest Technology Division
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute
New Delhi- 110 012 (India)

Mail ID: editorinchiefijh@gmail.com

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4133-2362

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=r8-j2TYAAAAJ&hl=en

^{Dr. Hare Krishna}

Section Editor-I

Principal Scientist, Division of Vegetable Production, ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi-221305, Uttar Pradesh, India.
kishun@rediffmail.com 

Research areas: Micro propagation, Nursery management, Crop production, Organic cultivation, Fruit trees, Protected Cultivation.

ID: Suresh.Paramasivam@icar.gov.in
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5072-366X

^{Dr. P. Suresh Kumar}

Section Editor-II

Principal Scientist
ICAR-NRC for Banana
Thogamalai Road,
Trichy - 620 102,
Tamil Nadu, India.

Research areas: Micro propagation, Nursery Management, Crop Production, Organic Cultivation, Fruit Trees, Protected Cultivation
Suresh.Paramasivam@icar.gov.in , Suresh.Paramasivam@icar.gov.in
psureshars@gmail.com
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Editorial Board

^{Dr. M. Sankaran}

Member, Editorial Board

Principal Scientist & Head, Division of Fruit Crops, ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru-560089, Karnataka, India

Research areas: Breeding and Biotechnology of Perennial Horticultural Crops

kmsankaran@gmail.com
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XfH2pMcAAAAJ& hl=en

^{Dr. D. Prasath}

Member, Editorial Board

^{Project Coordinator, AICRP Spices, and Principal Scientist (Horticulture), ICAR-Indian Institute of Spices Research, Kozhikode-673012, Kerala, India.}

Research areas: Genetic resources, breeding and applied genomics in horticultural crops.

Prasath.D@icar.gov.in
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=aCRvT14AAAAJ&hl=en

^{Dr. A.T. Sadashiva}

Member, Editorial Board

^{Director (R & D), Nethra Crop Sciences Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru-560091, Karnataka, India, Former Head, Division of Vegetable Crops, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hesaraghatta Lake Post, Bengaluru-560089, Karnataka, India.}

Research areas: Vegetable Breeding, Tomato crop Improvement, Multiple Disease resistance breeding, Breeding for processing

atsbrs@gmail.com
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=0T040ysAAAAJ&;hl=en

^{Dr. T. Damodaran}

Member, Editorial Board

Director, ICAR Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture, Rehmankela, Kakkori PO, Lucknow-226101, Uttar Pradesh, India.

 

Research areas: Banana and Mango breeding, Utilization of rhizosphere diversity for biotic and abiotic stress management in fruit crops - Metabolomics- Banana Fusarium wilt management - banana in-vitro mass multiplication using tissue culture.

damhort73@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2891-2960 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=2Kise9IAAAAJ

^{Dr. Bikash Das}

Member, Editorial Board

Director, ICAR-NRC on Litchi Mushahari, Ramna, Muzaffarpur- 842002, Bihar, India.

 

Research areas: Genetic resource management of fruit crops, fruit production systems under rain-fed conditions, High-density orcharding in fruit crops, and Canopy management in horticultural crops.

bikash41271@gmail.com
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=pGMGm4kAAAAJ&hl=en

^{Dr. Dinesh Kumar}

Member, Editorial Board

^{Head, Division of Food Science & Post-harvest Technology, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi-110012, Member of Codex committee, Scientific panel Fruits and vegetables and their products of FSSAI, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Technology expert of Ministry of Food Processing (MoFPI), Cluster development of oranges in Ministry of MSME.}

Research areas: Post harvest Management, Waste utilization, Boactive compounds, Antioxidants, Phytochemicals, Functional food.

dineshscn@gmail.com
https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=en&pli=1&user=vdWgNOsAAAAJ

^{Dr. Nripendra Vikram Singh}

Member, Editorial Board

^{Senior Scientist, Division of Fruits and Horticultural Technology, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi-110012, India.}

Research areas: Pomegranate Propagation, Plant Tissue Culture, Biopriming, Pomegranate production, Germplasm characterization

nripendras72@gmail.com
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HBkbUcUAAAAJ&;hl=en

^{Dr. H.P. Maheswarappa}

Member, Editorial Board

^{Principal Scientist, ICAR-Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kudlu (Post), Kasaragod-671124, Kerala, India.}

Research areas: Plantation Crops Management, Cropping/Farming System Research, Nutrient Management, Organic Farming, Natural Farming, Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration

maheshcpcri@gmail.com
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=YKRvAysAAAAJ&hl=en

^{Dr. Tsering Stobdan}

Member, Editorial Board

^{Scientist 'F' & Head, Horticulture Division, DRDO-Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Leh, Ladakh-194101, Union Territory of Ladakh.}

Research areas: Temperate Fruits, Protected Cultivation, Tribal Farming System, Hill Agriculture

tstobdan@gmail.com
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WcfjCocAAAAJ&hl=en

^{Dr. Shrawan Singh Sirowa}

Member, Editorial Board

^{Principal Scientist, Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012, India.}

Research areas: Genetic Improvement of Cole Crops

singhshrawan@rediffmail.com
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^{Dr. Reeta Bhatia Dey}

Member, Editorial Board

^{Principal Scientist, Division of Floriculture and Landscaping, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012, India.}

Research areas: Genetic Improvement of Flowers

reetaiari@yahoo.com
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=g6aQkQEAAAAJ&hl=en

International Advisory Board

^{Prof. (Dr.) Avtar Krishan Handa}

Member

^{Professor, Center for Plant Biology, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, 134 Whistler Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010, USA.}

Research areas: Biology and Technology of Horticultural Crops

ahanda@purdue.edu
Purdue Profile
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6127-7562

^{Dr. Sukhvinder Pal (SP) Singh}

Member

^{Institute Director}

New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
Central Coast Primary Industries Centre
Locked Bag 26, Gosford NSW 2250, Australia

Research areas: Postharvest Horticulture, Produce Safety and Traceability

sp.singh@dpi.nsw.gov.au
Google Scholar
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3277-0566

^{Dr. Muhamed Salim Bin Mohd Ali}

Member

^{CEO, International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet), P.O. Box 334, UPM Post Office, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.}

salim@itfnet.org

^{Dr. Balakrishnan Prithiviraj}

Member

^{Professor & Vice President (International Relations), Dalhousie University, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.}

Research areas: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction, Marine Bioproducts, Functional Foods

bprithiviraj@dal.ca
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3732-516X
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^{Dr. Zora Singh}

Member

^{Foundation Professor of Horticultural Science}

School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia

Research areas: Production and Postharvest Horticulture

z.singh@ecu.edu.au
Google Scholar
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2946-172X

^{Prof. (Dr.) Ryutaro Tao}

Member

^Professor

Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-oiwake, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

Research areas: Fruit and Fruit Tree Science

tao.ryutaro.8c@kyoto-u.ac.jp
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7811-5789

^{Prof. (Dr.) Rajasekaran R. Lada}

Member

^{Emeritus Professor}

Former Department Chair, Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences, Founding Director, Christmas Tree Research Centre

Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University, P.O. Box 550, Truro, Nova Scotia, B2N 5E3, Canada

Research areas: Seed, Plant, Stress and Eco Physiology, Disruptive Innovations and Product Development

raj.lada@dal.ca
Dalhousie Profile

^{Prof. (Dr.) Bhimanagouda (Bhimu) S. Patil}

Member

^{Director, Vegetable & Fruit Improvement Center; Director, USDA National Center of Excellence-Melons; Regent Professor and Leonard Pike University Inaugural Professor}

Texas A&M University, 1500 Research Blvd, Suite A120, College Station, TX 77843, Texas, USA

Research areas: Horticulture, Postharvest, Chemometrics, Foods for Health

Bhimanagouda.Patil@ag.tamu.edu
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7189-0432
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