Dr. Soumya Mukherjee is a faculty member in the Department of Botany, Jangipur College, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India. He has worked as a CSIR- research fellow in the area of abiotic stress physiology of plants, and has published in SCOPUS and SCI indexed international journals. He has authored chapters on plant physiology and abiotic stress signaling, and authored an e-learning module in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry published as an effort of National Mission on Education through ICT. He has developed course content for Master of Science in Botany (distance education) for the subjects of Plant physiology from Lalit Narayan Mithila University and Alagappa University, and is currently focused on undergraduate teaching to Botany (Hons.) and Life Science students in fundamental aspects areas of Plant Physiology. His research interests are in salt-stress physiology associated with the aspects of hormone signaling, soil-root interaction and other biomolecular crosstalk in plants.