Dr. N. K. Gupta has obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi in 1997. Presently, he is working as Associate Professor of Plant Physiology at SK Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner. He has also worked as visiting scientist at University of Adelaide, Australia. Dr. Gupta is actively pursuing research on genomics of drought, salinity and high temperature tolerance in plants. He has guided many master's and doctoral students for their dissertation. Till date, one text book on plant physiology, three book chapters, five review articles and thirty five research papers are in his credit.