Dr. Kanchan Vishwakarma has expertise in plant-nanoparticle and plant-microbe interactions. She has experience in assessing the whole microbial diversity of plant by high throughput metagenomic approach under external stimuli. She has worked on optimization, synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles and tested their impact on plants with emphasis on regulatory detoxification pathways. She has explored the utilization of beneficial microbes, phytohormones and nanoparticles with respect to plant growth and published number of research and review articles in journals of repute such as Journal of Hazardous Materials, Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Microbiology and numerous book chapters.