Dr. M. Senthilkumar, is currently employed as an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Tali Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. He has been teaching and conducting research in plant-microbe interactions and agricultural microbiology for 17 years. He graduated from TNAU and done postdoctoral programme in Dong-A University, Republic of Korea. His study focuses on plant-microbe interactions, plant stress tolerance caused by biofertilizer innovation. He published more than 30 research articles inmicrobes, and reputed journals