Dr. Nitish Kumar is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India, for the last 12 years. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research–Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has a wide area of research experience in the field of crop improvement using plant biotechnology techniques. He has published more than 70 research articles in leading international and national journals, more than 20 book chapters, and 7 books with Springer and Taylor and Francis. Dr. Kumar is a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2014. He has received many awards/fellowships/projects from various prestigious Indian government organizations like CSIR, DBT, ICAR, SERB-DST, and BRNS-BARC, among others. He is a reviewer for various international journals and serves as an associate editor ofthe journal Gene (Elsevier).