Dr. G. Dhandapani, presently working as an Assistant Professor, in the Botany Dept. Kongunadu Arts and Science College (Autonomous), Coimbatore. He has done the postdoctoral program in the Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA in the area of "Mechanism of RNA interference in insects and pests." In more on that, he has received the “Best Scientist Award - 2023 & 2024" from GRABS Educational Charitable Trust on April, 2023 and the “Asian PGPR Society for Sustainable Agriculture” on July, 2024, respectively. He was also awarded the “Young Scientist Leadership Award 2024 for his significant contribution in the field of “Plant Biotechnology” by Prosper Foundation & Agri. Amigos Private Limited – Academia & Industry Leadership Awards 2024.” And also, he has received the “Tamil Nadu Endowment Scholarship Award” for his academic excellence in his UG and PG programme. He has vast experience in the fields of plant tissue culture & genetic transformation, plant molecular biology, rDNA technology, and functional genomics for biotic and abiotic stresses. He has received more than 15 NCBI accessions for the submission of various DNA and mRNA sequences and many microarray data. He has been granted one Indian patent on “Promoter from Gossypium hirsutum L. for enhanced expression of foreign genes in late boll developmental stages of cotton.” He has published more than 35 highly reputed international research journal.