Pradeep Kumar Rai is a Microbiologist at the IFFCO-Nano Fertilizer Plant, Phulpur, Prayagraj, UP, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and did his postdoctoral training from the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi. He has their expertise in soil microbial ecology, agriculture and environment sustainability. With more than eight years of research experience, till date, he has 33 research articles to his credits. Dr. Rai is active member of Asian PGPR society of sustainable agriculture, Alabama, USA and International society of root research, ISRR, Jülich, Germany.

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3847-9101