Dr. Ragunathan Devendran received his MSc from the Madurai Kamaraj University in 2010, and his Ph.D. from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2019. He was the Senior Project Officer at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (2019-2020). Currently, he is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Georgia, Tifton Campus and Charles Tanford Protein Canter, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. His research interests include plant molecular biology, biotechnology, plant virology, and plant–pathogen interaction.