| 1 | Foreword | Ajit Kumar Mohanty |  | 
			  
                | 2 | Foreword | Vivek Bhasin |  | 
              
                | 3 | Preface | Santosh K. Sandur and Tapan K. Ghanty |  | 
              
                | 4 | About the Editors |  |  | 
              
              5 | Biological effects of high background natural radiations in humans | Rashmi Priya, Vinay Jain, Divyalakshmi Saini, PR Vivek Kumar, Deepak Sharma and Tapan Kumar Ghanty |  | 
                | 6 | Biological dosimetry methods for excess exposure management and dose assessment | Nagesh Bhat, Rajesh K.. Chaurasia and Usha Yadav |  | 
              
                | 7 | Biological mechanisms underlying cancer radio-resistance | Rahul Checker, Sundarraj Jayakumar, Deepak Sharma and Santosh K Sandur |  | 
              
                | 8 | Overcoming chemo-resistance using genetic and phytochemical approaches: Beacon of hope | Nitish Chauhan, Ananda Guba Majumdar, Ganesh Pai B., Krupa Thankam Philip, Pooja Gupta, Saikat Chakraborty, Mrityunjaya Tyagi and Birija Sankar Patro |  | 
              
                | 9 | Interplay between immune and tumor cells in the outcome of radiotherapy | Vipul K. Pandey, Poonam Yadav, Prayag J. Amin, Kavitha Premkumar and Bhavani S. Shankar |  | 
              
                | 10 | Charged particle therapy for cancer treatment | Himanshi Narang Mishra, Somnath Ghosh and Anu Ghosh |  | 
              
                | 11 | Cell-free DNA (cfFDNA) based markers for cancer therapy | Dhruv Das, AVSSN Rao and Rajani Kant Chittela |  | 
              
                | 12 | Ionizing radiation based diagnostic and therapeutic techniques | Bhakti Vaidya, Ashwini Chalikandy and Sandip Basu |  | 
              
                | 13 | Recent advancements in radiation therapy for cancer management | Ajay Thomas Alex, Ankita Kanoja, Sakshi Bhat and Jayant Sastri Goda |  | 
              
                | 14 | Radiosensitization by nanoparticles | Bijaideep Dutta, K. C. Barick and P.A. Hassan |  | 
              
                | 15 | Synthesis of radiopharmaceutical ligands and their applications | Bhaskar B. Dhotare, K.S Ajish Kumar and Dibakar Goswami |  | 
              
                | 16 | Production and applications of radiopharmaceuticals | Madhava B. Mallia and Tapas Das |  | 
              
                | 17 | Radioprotector development program in DAE: Past, Present and Future | Rahul Checker, R.S. Patwardan, D.K.. Maurya, Deepak Shanna, Santosh K Sandur and Tapan Kumar Ghanty |  | 
              
                | 18 | Selenium based agents as modifiers of radiation-induced lung injury | Amit Kunwar |  | 
              
                | 19 | Coping up with high radiation stress: Microbes Nostoc sp. strain PCC 7120 and Deinococcus radiodurans show the way | Arvind Kumar, Anaganti N arasimha, Yogendra Singh Rajpurohit, Swathi Kota and Hema Rajaram |  | 
			  
                | 20 | Microbial bioremediation of heavy metals and radionuclides | T.V. Divya, Devanshi Khare, Prashanth S. Raghavan, Hema Rajaram and Celin Acharya |  | 
			  
                | 21 | Radiation dose measurements pertaining to food irradiation Applications: Challenges and future roadmap | Bhaskar Sanyal and S. Gautam |  | 
			  
                | 22 | Radiation processing: A promising nuclear technology to address post-harvest losses of agri-roduce and thus ensuring national food security | Sudhanshu Saxena and S. Gautam |  | 
			  
                | 23 | Crop improvement by radiation-induced mutation breeding | Anand M. Badigannavar, J. Souframanien, J.G. Manjaya, B.K. Das, Ashok M. Badigannavar and Archana N. Rai |  | 
			  
                | 24 | Sterile insect technique: An eco-friendly insect pest control strategy based on ionizing radiation | Ashok B. Hadapad, Arpit Prashar, Vrunda S. Thakare and Ramesh S. Hire |  | 
			  
                | 25 | Applications of radiation-processed chitosan in agriculture | Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Manish Pandey and Sunil Dalvi |  | 
			  
                | 26 | Genetic improvement of medicinal and vegetatively propagated crops through induced mutagenesis: Role of plant tissue culture technology | Subham Bhakta, Ramesh K Satdive, Shraddha Singh, Himanshu Tak, Suchita N Kamble, Himanshu Misra, Chandrakant Salunkhe, Vishvas M Kulkarni and Sudhir Singh |  | 
			  
                | 27 | Application of radiation polymerized superabsorbent hydrogel on plant growth and productivity | Kuber C. Bhainsa, Debaparna Dutta and Tapan K. Ghanty |  |