Sonika PandeySonika Pandey is currently a visiting scientist in the Department of Fruit Trees Sciences, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agriculture Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, Israel. She completed her BSc. in botany in 2005 from St. Anrews College, Gorakhpur/D.D.U Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India and obtained her M.Sc. in biotechnology in 2009 from Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, India. She completed her doctoral degree in biological Science in 2015 from CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat/Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India. She worked as Research Associate I at the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Belgaum, India. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi India from May 2016 to March 2019. Her current research focuses on the role of nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species in signalling in plant response to abiotic stress. In addition to this, she is actively involved in elucidating the mechanism of dormancy releases in bud. She has published 15 articles in peer-reviewed journals that contain 9 research articles, 3 reviews and 3 book chapters. Her main area of research interest includes plant stress biology and metabolomics. Read More Read Less