Prof. (Dr.) G. S. Shekhawat completed his M.Sc. and PhD from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur and since then continuously engaged in research; initially started as a CSIR Post Doctoral fellow and after completion of this project, he received BOYSCAST fellowship and worked at University of South Florida Tampa, USA. Dr Shekhawat has also been awarded by INSA International Exchange Fellowship wherein he worked on stress biology and received Young Research Award from the Academy of Innovative Research and Professor YS Murthy Gold medal award by Indian Botanical society for his contribution in plant Biotechnology in 2016 Prof. Shekhawat has also completed several research projects funded by different agencies like UGC, SERB-DST Delhi, CSIR, and DST-Raj. Prof. Shekhawat has published: 2 books, 11 Book chapters and 75 research papers in journals of international repute including; Nature Scientific Reports, Plant Cell and Environment, Journal of Experimental Botany (JXB), J. of Biotechnology, BMC Biology, Plant Cell Reports, Protoplasma, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Nitric Oxide, Industrial Crops and Products, Biometals, Fitoterapia, Turkish J. of Biology, Advance Material Research, Fitoterapia, Biologia plantarum, Stress Physiology and Biochemistry and in plant growth regulation etc. Presently Prof. Shekhawat is working on Heme oxygenase-1 and Nitric oxide signalling