Vishnu D. Rajput, PhD, is Associate Professor and Leading Researcher at Southern Federal University. His ongoing research is based on advanced topics in soil contamination. He has published many peer-reviewed articles, books, book chapters, and conference articles.

Abhishek Singh, PhD, is a Research Scholar at Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has published book chapters, review papers, abstracts, and Hindi English popular articles and has presented his work at professional conferences.

Tatiana Minkina, PhD, is Head of the Soil Science and Land Evaluation Department of Southern Federal University. She is also head of the internationally accredited master's degree program "Management and Estimation of Land Resources." A prolific author, she has published numerous scientific publications and has been an invited editor of the MDPI Journal Water.

Krishan K. Verma, PhD, is a Visiting Scientist at the Sugarcane Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangxi, China. He has 10 years of research experience in the field of biotic and abiotic stresses, and has published over 50 scientific research articles, including five books.

Awani Kumar Singh, PhD, is a Principal Scientist of Horticulture-Vegetable Science at the ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, India. He has developed several high-yielding varieties of different vegetable crops and has published many research papers, abstracts, book chapters, training manuals, and other publications, as well as three books. He has delivered many TV and radio talks on the topic of protected cultivation.