Dr. Nagendra Kumar Singh is an accomplished agricultural scientist from India. He is a National Professor (Dr. B.P.Pal Chair) under ICAR at the National Research Centre for Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. Dr. Singh has been recognized for his academic achievements with gold medals from BHU for his performance in both B.Sc. (Ag.) and M.Sc. (Ag.) programs. After completing his post-graduate studies in BHU, he received a University of Adelaide Post Graduate Scholarship to pursue his doctoral studies, which he eventually earned from Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide, in 1985. Dr. Singh is renowned for his research in the field of plant genomics and biotechnology. He has made notable contributions to the decoding of rice, tomato, and pigeon pea genomes and to the understanding of wheat seed storage proteins and their impact on wheat quality. Dr. Singh has also made significant advances in the comparative analysis of rice and wheat genomes as well as the mapping of genes for salt tolerance and basmati quality traits in rice. His areas of research interests include genomics, gene discovery, marker development, and molecular plant breeding.