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Dr. Mahaveer P Sharma is currently working in Agricultural Research Service as Principal Scientist (Agricultural Microbiology) at Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Indore (Under ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research)-DARE, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Govt. of India). Dr Sharma earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees in Agriculture from Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner and his Ph.D. from Gwalior. He has received gold medal award during his master’s programme. Dr Sharma has started his career in mycorrhizal research at University of Delhi and TERI New Delhi and after serving TERI for 11 years he moved to ICAR and joined in ARS as Senior Microbiologist. He has specialised in soil microbiological research involving the uses of plant growth promoting microbes particularly arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in improved plant growth, soil carbon sequestration, drought tolerance and overall productivity of crops. He has been awarded many awards like best paper presentation, travel grant awards for visiting abroad in various scientific meetings/conferences and has won several external research grants (DBT, DST, ICAR) for his research on applied aspects of plant-AMF-microbe interaction. He has also been awarded the prestigious DBT-CREST Award-2013 by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India to work abroad on signature fatty acid biomarkers to assess live biomass of AMF and soil microbial community changes in long-term farming system trials. There are about 80 important research articles published in refereed journals, magazines and reviews articles in books of international repute and has many microbial accessions with NCBI database and cultures deposited in International Microbial Repository Authorities to his credit.
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