Plant-derived Bioactives: Production, Properties and Therapeutic Applications

Dr. Mallappa Kumara Swamy is a Professor at the Department of Biotechnology at East West First Grade College (Affiliated to Bangalore University), Bengaluru, India. He pursued his postdoctoral research at the Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Malaysia from 2014 to 2018. Before that, he worked as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology at Padmashree Institute of Management and Sciences, Bangalore University, Bengaluru, India. He obtained his PhD (Biotechnology) from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India, in 2013. He has more than 16 years of teaching and research experience in the fields of plant biotechnology, secondary metabolites production, phytochemistry and bioactive studies, and he has published more than 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and 25 book chapters. He has edited 10 books with Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), USA, andStudium Press, India. He is also an editorial board member and reviewer for various high-impact international journals. He currently works in the area of natural product research, plant cell and tissue culture technology for bioactive compounds production and evaluation of their bioactivities. His research also focuses on nanobiotechnology for medical applications.