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Dr. R.S. Mehrotra is a Ph.D. from the University of Saugor (now Dr. Hari Singh Gour University). He retired as Professor of Botany, Kurukshetra University in the year 1997. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada (1968-1970) and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of California, Riverside, USA (1979). He has vast teaching and research experience of more than 35 years. Dr. Mehrotra and his research associates have done work on various aspects of Soil Microbiology (including root diseases), post-harvest diseases, toxins and enzymes involved in host pathogenesis and biological control of plant pathogens. He has published around 200 research papers in Indian and Foreign journals. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, Fellow of the Indian Botanical Society, Fellow of the Indian Phytopathological Society and Fellow of the Indian Mycological Society. He was the President of Indian Phytopathological Society (1990), President of the Indian Society of Plant Pathologists (1992), President of the Mycological Society of India (1996), President of Botany Section of the Indian Science Congress (1997), and was the recipient of the Birbal Sahni Gold Medal of the Indian Botanical Society in the year 1998.

Dr. Mehrotra has authored 4 books—An Introduction to Mycology with Prof. K.R. Aneja, published by Wiley Eastern, New Delhi;  Plant Pathology  co-authored with Prof. Ashok Aggarwal, published by Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited and a monograph entitled Phytophthora Diseases in India published by Bishen Singh and Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun; Principles of Microbiology co-authored with Prof. Geeta Sumbali, published by Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, New Delhi.