Kalyan Barman

Kalyan Barman, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Horticulture, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Formerly, he served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Postharvest Technology, K.R.C. College of Horticulture, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Karnataka, and Department of Horticulture (Fruit), Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bihar, India. He is the author or co-author of 19 peer-reviewed...See more

Kalyan Barman, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Horticulture, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Formerly, he served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Postharvest Technology, K.R.C. College of Horticulture, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Karnataka, and Department of Horticulture (Fruit), Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bihar, India. He is the author or co-author of 19 peer-reviewed research articles published in various international and national journals, 12 popular articles, and 10 book chapters. He is an active reviewer of several international journals, such as Postharvest Biology and Technology (Elsevier ), Scientia Horticulturae (Elsevier), Food Chemistry (Elsevier), Acta Physiologia Plantarum (Springer), Food Science and Nutrition (Wiley), Journal of Plant Growth Regulation (Springer), International Journal of Food Properties (Taylor & Francis Online), and many more. He has been invited as a guest editor for special issue of Journal of Food Quality (Wiley Hindawi). He is guiding or has guided about 17 students for MSc and PhD programs. Many of his students have excelled academically and have qualified ICAR JRF and SRF examinations and went on to get admission into prestigious universities. He is a dynamic teacher, researcher, and guide in the area of postharvest technology of horticultural crops. He acquired his BSc degree (Horticulture) from Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India. He qualified ICAR JRF and completed both his MSc and PhD from I.A.R.I, New Delhi, India, specializing in postharvest technology of horticultural crops. He was awarded INSPIRE fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for pursuing his PhD. He has worked on alleviating chilling injury of mango and pomegranate during their low-temperature storage, reducing pericarp browning of litchi and reducing sapburn in mango. Swati Sharma, PhD, is currently working as a Scientist at the ICAR-National Research Centre on Litchi, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India. Her research work has been published in various international and national journals, and she has been author or co-author of more than 17 peer-reviewed research articles, 12 popular articles, 20 conference papers, a technical manual, and five book chapters. She is also an active reviewer for several national and international research journals. She has worked on maintaining the fruit quality and enhancing marketability of plums using new treatments, such as 1-methylcyclopropene, salicylic acid and nitric oxide. She has also worked on modified atmosphere packaging and ethylene absorbents packaging of plum. She is currently working on physiological and biochemical understanding of alternate bearing in litchi and the effects of various preharvest treatments on postharvest quality of litchis. Dr. Sharma completed her BSc (Agriculture) degree at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. She completed both her MSc and PhD degrees at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, specializing in postharvest technology of horticultural crops. She has been recipient of an ICAR Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and INSPIRE Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. She has also qualified for the ICAR Senior Research Fellowship (SRF), acquiring first rank in the horticulture discipline and got send All-India rank in the ICAR Agricultural Research Scientist (ARS) Examination in Fruit Science discipline. See less