About

Dr KC Bansal is a board director at Global Plant Council and former Director of the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi and is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the National Academy of Science, India. He pursued advanced research from Harvard University, Cambridge, USA under the guidance of Professor Lawrence Bogorad. He is on the Editorial Board of Plant Biotechnology Journal (UK). Prof. Bansal has supervised over 25 doctoral students, and imparted training to over 500 scientists and scholars in the area of molecular biology and genetic engineering. His research interests include,. among other, functional genomics and transgenic development for abiotic stress tolerance in plants.