Arpan ModiArpan Modi is a founder of Axenic Agritech Private Limited, Gujarat, India, working in the field of plant tissue culture, molecular biology, and genome editing. He has worked on different plant species Stevia, Sandalwood, Date palm, Papaya, Fi, Indian Laurel, Apples, Pear, and Potato through various research position including five years of post-doctoral fellowship at Agricultural Research Organization, Israel. He has been actively engaged in the tissue culture protocol development of Stevia, Indian laurel, and Sandalwood. He has more than 15 years of experience in plant tissue culture. Clonal fidelity testing, gender identification in dioecious plants and molecular marker-based characteristics of the field crops are some of his expertise in the field of molecular biology. He has conducted a few genome editing experiments in Fig, Indian laurel, Apple, and Pear. He has published 14 research papers; 5 review papers; 3 papers in conference proceedings; and 28 book chapters, as first, corresponding or co-author. Read More Read Less