Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singhal is currently working as a scientist in the Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi (U.P) India. He has received his PhD from IAS, BHU India. He has eight year experience in different area of Plant Physiology aspects such as drought stress tolerance in rice and wheat crop, seed priming, artificial night light pollution, root physiology, multiple abiotic stresses and metabolism related to different crops. Currently he is working on the Fodder oat improvement, oat modeling for climate change, and development of heat tolerance lines in oat. He has published more than 20 research and review paper in reputed journals such as Frontier in Plant Science (IF-4.4), Frontier in Agronomy, Physiologia Plantarum (If-4.1), plant breeding, Russian Journal of Plant Physiology and many others. He also published more than 15 chapters with the Elsevier, Springer and Taylor& Francis. Also, Dr. Singhal has received National Talent Scholarship (NTS), Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Senior Research Fellowship during under-graduation, post-graduation and Ph.D Programme awarded by Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) India.