Chetan Keswani

About

Dr. Chetan Keswani is a Group Leader in the Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. He has keen interest in regulatory, commercialization and intellectual property aspects of agriculturally important microorganisms in Asia. He is an elected Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London, UK and received Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Uttar Pradesh Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India in 2015. He is an editorial board member of several reputed agricultural microbiology journals and has edited ten books on the subject. For his editorial endeavors he was awarded the Publons Top Peer Review Award in Agricultural Sciences (2018), Outstanding Editor Award (2019) by Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection, Taylor and Francis, and Springer-Society Award (2020) for Excellent contribution to the journal Environmental Sustainability, Springer-Nature. In addition, he has been listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists for the single year 2022 (Sub-fields: Plant Biology & Botany and Biotechnology).

Employment

• Southern Federal University Principal Investigator/ Lab Head
  2021 - Present
• Banaras Hindu University Post-Doctoral Fellow
  2016 - 2021

Education

• Banaras Hindu University Ph.D.
  2011 - 2015
• Jamia Hamdard M.Sc.
  2008 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (110)

• A Global Meta-Analysis on Microbially-Assisted Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals in Contaminated Soils
  Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s11270-025-08852-9
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• Deciphering optimal boron management impact on crop productivity, physiology, calcium-boron ratio, mobility and nutrient dynamics in a vegetable cropping sequence under acidic soil
  Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2025.110219
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• Multifunctional Role of Brassinosteroids in Plant Growth, Development, and Defense
  Nilanjan Chakraborty, Retwika Ganguly, Anik Sarkar

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  • Disha Dasgupta
  • Jit Sarkar
  • Krishnendu Acharya
  • Marina Burachevskaya
  • Tatiana Minkina
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  Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s00344-024-11593-4
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• An Insight into the Role of Phenolics in Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants: Current Perspective for Sustainable Environment
  Anuprita Ray, Somashree Kundu, Shuvendu Shekhar Mohapatra +4 more
  Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 2024 DOI: 10.22207/JPAM.18.1.09
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• Impact of the sustainable agricultural practices for governing soil health from the perspective of a rising agri-based circular bioeconomy
  Applied Soil Ecology 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2023.105199
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• Unraveling lipid peroxidation-mediated regulation of redox homeostasis for sustaining plant health
  Nilanjan Chakraborty, Rusha Mitra, Disha Dasgupta +6 more
  Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2023.108272
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• Intellectual Property Issues in Life Sciences
  CRC Press 2024
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• New Aspects of the Effects of Climate Change on Interactions Between Plants and Microbiomes: A Review
  Journal of Basic Microbiology 2024 DOI: 10.1002/JOBM.202400345
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• Unraveling the role of antimicrobial peptides in plant resistance against phytopathogens
  Sumit Kumar, Lopamudra Behera, Rajesh Kumari +14 more
  Discover Sustainability 2024 DOI: 10.1007/S43621-024-00456-3
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• Biological Control of the Plant Pathogens
  Microorganisms 2023 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11122930
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• Comparative analysis of isonicotinic acid, l-ascorbic acid and calcium chloride on the induction of innate immunity and secondary metabolite production in Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don for management of biotic and oxidative stress
  Anamika Paul, Aritrika Sinha, Krishnendu Acharya +3 more
  Plant Stress 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.stress.2023.100272
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• Microbial consortium mediated acceleration of the defense response in potato against Alternaria solani through prodigious inflation in phenylpropanoid derivatives and redox homeostasis
  Sumit Kumar, Ram Chandra, Lopamudra Behera

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  • Ichini Sudhir
  • Mukesh Meena
  • Shailendra Singh
  • Chetan Keswani
  Heliyon 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e22148
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• Unraveling the Plant Growth-Promoting Mechanisms of Stenotrophomonas sp. CV83 for Drought Stress Tolerance and Growth Enhancement in Chickpea
  Anjney Sharma, Anukool Vaishnav, Hena Jamali +5 more
  Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s00344-023-11010-2
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• Nano-Inputs: A Next-Generation Solution for Sustainable Crop Production
  Satyendra Pratap Singh, Chetan Keswani, Tatiana Minkina +2 more
  Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s00344-023-10943-y
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• Bacillus spp. as Bio-factories for Antifungal Secondary Metabolites: Innovation Beyond Whole Organism Formulations
  B.C. Nájera Salazar, Aurelio Ortíz, Chetan Keswani +8 more
  Microbial Ecology 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-022-02044-2
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• Correlation of the Effect of Native Bioagents on Soil Properties and Their Influence on Stem Rot Disease of Rice
  Sowmya Vanama, Maruthi Pesari, Gobinath Rajendran +9 more
  Sustainability 2023 DOI: 10.3390/su151511768
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• Role of plant secondary metabolites in defence and transcriptional regulation in response to biotic stress
  Anjali, Sumit Kumar, Tulasi Korra +7 more
  Plant Stress 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.stress.2023.100154
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• Trichoderma viride—Mediated Modulation of Oxidative Stress Network in Potato Challenged with Alternaria solani
  Sumit Kumar, Ram Chandra, Chetan Keswani +4 more
  Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s00344-022-10669-3
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• Biopesticide Consumption in India: Insights into the Current Trends
  Nilanjan Chakraborty, Rusha Mitra, Somrhita Pal +5 more
  Agriculture 2023 DOI: 10.3390/agriculture13030557
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• Unravelling the Recent Developments in the Production Technology and Efficient Applications of Biochar for Agro-Ecosystems
  Khushbu Kumari, Raushan Kumar, Nirmali Bordoloi +3 more
  Agriculture 2023 DOI: 10.3390/agriculture13030512
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