Dr. Anurag Kashyap is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, Assam Agricultural University (AAU), Jorhat, Assam. He obtained his B.Sc. (Agri.) and M.Sc. (Agri.) degree from Assam Agricultural University and obtained his Ph.D. degree from Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain in 2021. In the year 2016, he received the Netaji Subhas - Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) - International Fellowship for pursuing Ph.D. studies at Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Barcelona, Spain, where he worked on the topic “Ralstonia solanacearum - triggered defence responses at the tomato root xylem vasculature: Insights on the suberin pathway” under the supervision of Dr. Nuria Sanchez Coll. His Doctoral thesis was awarded with “Excellent cum laude” title by Autonomous University of Barcelona. Besides, he was also awarded with AAU Gold Medal for securing the highest CGPA in B.Sc. (Agri.) degree programme and also secured first position at M.Sc. (Agri) programme of AAU. Till date he has published a number of research and review articles on plant-pathogen interaction in international, peer reviewed, high impact factor journals.