Ruchi Tripathi did her MSc. from Banaras Hindu University and her PhD from Govind Ballabh Pant university of Agriculture and Technology. She is a recipient of the P R Verma award and M. J. Narasimhan recommendation award for her PhD thesis. She earlier worked as a ResearchAssociate and is presently working as Project Scientist I at Govind Ballabh Pant university of Agriculture and Technology. Within the period she has published 15 research papers, 5 book chapters, 1 book, 10 popular articles, and severalabstracts and has won several prizes in the national and international seminars and symposium.