Shri Mohan Jain is a plant biotechnologist, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. He received the M. Phil in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1978 from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Israel, and the USA; a visiting Professor in Japan and Italy; and a Technical Officer, Plant Breeding and Genetics, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria, in 1999-2005. He is an editorial board member of Euphytica, In Vitro, Propagation of Ornamental Plants, Emirates J. Food and Agriculture; a reviewer in Plant Cell Reports, Mutation Research, and Plant Cell Tissue Organ Culture. He has 130 publications in peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings and has edited 41books. He has been an invited speaker and acted as a chair person for several international conferences worldwide. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in commemoration for the award to the IAEA of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005; he is also a consultant to the IAEA, the European Union, and the Egyptian Government.
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