Laxman Singh Rajput received the bachelor’s degree in agriculture from ANGRAU, Hyderabad, in 2011, and the master’s degree in agriculture from the College of Agriculture, UAS, Dharwad, India, in 2013. He has worked for management of banded leaf and sheath blight of maize and simulation model of cAMP dependent PKA in appressoria of M. oryzae under elevated temperature during his Ph.D. program. He is currently working as a Scientist (Plant Pathology) at the Indian Institute of Soybean Research Institute, Indore. He has seven years of experience in management of plant disease and screening of genotypes against diseases. He also worked in effect on elevated temperature on rice blast resistance gene Pi 54. He has 12 peer-reviewed publications and one book chapter. He has received three gold medals during his M.Sc. (Agri) programme. During his Ph.D., he received the Senior Research Fellowship given by ICAR.