Millets in Sustainable Agriculture Genetic Improvement, Nutritional Quality, Cultivation, and Integrated Pest-Disease Management

Roshni Vijayan, PhD, is Assistant Professor at Kerala Agricultural University, India, and an accomplished plant breeder whose research integrates conventional and molecular breeding with computational biology. She has authored numerous scientific publications, contributed book chapters, and edited multiple scholarly volumes.

A. John Joel, PhD, is Professor at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India, with more than three decades of experience in plant breeding, genetics, biotechnology, and genetic resources. An internationally recognized researcher and mentor, he has received prestigious fellowships and has contributed extensively to the improvement of major food crops.

R. Ambika Rajendran, PhD, is Senior Scientist at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. She has published widely, contributed numerous book chapters, and edited several books covering cereals, pulses, soybeans, and plant stress biology.

Adithya P. Balakrishnan, PhD, is an INSPIRE Fellow and doctoral researcher at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. Her research interests include molecular breeding, grain quality improvement, and crop genetics. She has published research on genetic analysis and quality enhancement in economically important crops.