Coconut-Based Nutrition and Nutraceutical Perspectives

S.V. Ramesh is presently serving ICAR-Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (ICARCPCRI), Kasaragod, Kerala, India, as a Senior Scientist (Biotechnology). His field of specialization is plant biochemistry and molecular biology having obtained his master's and doctorate degrees in plant biochemistry. His current research focus includes nutritional biochemistry and bioactives of nutraceutical potential in plantation crops. He is a recipient of DBT-CTEP, DST-ITS Travel Awards and AABSc-sponsored Young Plant Biotechnologist Award. His postdoctoral research in the field of plant and viral small non-coding RNAs at Washington State University, USA, was sponsored under DBT-CREST Fellowship. He has published many scholarly articles--spread over diverse fields, viz., plantation biology, nutrition biochemistry and plant-virus interactions--in journals of international and national repute and presented his research findings in several international scientific fora. He also features in the editorial boards of international journals PLOS ONE, Measurement: Food and Journal of Plantation Crops.

Shelly Praveen has an illustrious career in research, teaching, program management, and research policy development at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India. Dr. Praveen's contributions as a Head of the Division of Biochemistry at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, and Director of the Centre for Advanced Faculty Training are immense. She bolstered the industry-academia synergy and launched a portfolio of developing millet-based fortified foods. Earlier, Dr. Praveen led a multidisciplinary team in the development of virus-resistant transgenic tomato and collaborated with international academia including Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; King Saud University; Scottish Crop Research Institute; CIB, CSIC, Spain; and CREC, Florida, USA. Dr. Praveen has been honored with coveted Awards and Fellowships including Fellow of NASI, Fellow of NAAS, Associate of The World Academy of Sciences, and Panjabrao Deshmukh Outstanding Woman Scientist Award, ICAR. Currently, she is engaged in nutrition for health management through service in nutritionally important foods across globe.

S.V. Ramesh目前在印度喀拉拉邦卡薩拉戈德的ICAR-中央種植作物研究所（ICAR-CPCRI）擔任高級科學家（生物技術）。他的專業領域是植物生物化學和分子生物學，並獲得植物生物化學的碩士和博士學位。他目前的研究重點包括種植作物的營養生物化學和具有營養保健潛力的生物活性物質。他曾獲得DBT-CTEP、DST-ITS旅行獎和AABSc贊助的青年植物生物技術獎。他在美國華盛頓州立大學進行的植物和病毒小非編碼RNA的博士後研究是由DBT-CREST獎學金資助的。他在國際和國內知名期刊上發表了許多學術文章，涵蓋種植生物學、營養生物化學和植物-病毒相互作用等多個領域，並在多個國際科學論壇上展示了他的研究成果。他還擔任國際期刊PLOS ONE、Measurement: Food和Journal of Plantation Crops的編輯委員會成員。

Shelly Praveen在印度ICAR-印度農業研究所的研究、教學、項目管理和研究政策發展方面擁有卓越的職業生涯。Praveen博士作為ICAR-IARI新德里的生物化學部門負責人和高級教學培訓中心主任的貢獻巨大。她促進了產業與學術界的協同合作，並推出了一系列以小米為基礎的強化食品的開發項目。早期，Praveen博士領導了一個多學科團隊開發抗病毒轉基因番茄，並與包括西班牙馬德里理工大學、沙特阿拉伯國王沙特大學、蘇格蘭作物研究所、西班牙CIB、CSIC和美國佛羅里達州CREC等國際學術機構合作。Praveen博士曾獲得多項榮譽獎項和獎學金，包括NASI院士、NAAS院士、世界科學院副院士以及ICAR的Panjabrao Deshmukh傑出女性科學家獎。目前，她致力於通過全球營養重要食品的服務來促進健康管理。