Dr. M. G. Mallikarjuna is currently working at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He used advanced genomics and systems biology approaches to understand the functional and genomic basis of stress resilience in crop plants. Mallikarjuna has made significant contributions to crop genetics, genomics, and breeding, particularly in elucidating the functional basis of tolerance to low-iron, low-zinc, drought, heat, and waterlogging stress, as well as the evolutionary genomics of stress-responsive gene families. He has significantly contributed to the development of more than 20 maize hybrids and several genetic stocks. Dr. Mallikarjuna has also received various awards of national and international repute, including the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for his outstanding work on deciphering the genetics and genomics of iron and zinc interactions, an Early Career Research Grant from the Department of Science and Technology, an elected associateship from KSTA, Govt. of Karnataka, and the Fellowship from the Linnean Society of London. He has published over 40 research articles, 15 book chapters, and four books with reputed international publishers. He also served as an editorial member for Frontiers and Springer Nature journals and a reviewer for more than twenty high-impact journals in genetics, genomics, and plant breeding. He is actively engaged in post-graduation teaching and research guidance at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.

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