Dr. Mukesh K Berwal is a Scientist (Plant Biochemistry) at Department of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Central Institute for Arid Horticulture, Bikaner (Rajasthan, India). He received his M.Sc. in Agri. Biochemistry from CSA University of Agri. & Teachnology, Kanpur in 2007 and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana India in 2015. From 2009 to 2016, he worked as scientist, Plant Biochemistry at ICAR-Central plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasaragod, Kerala, India and worked effect of climate change and abiotic stresses on plantation crops like coconut, arecanut and cocoa. He has published more than 20 research articles in indexed journals and 10 book chapters. At present, he is working on abiotic stress tolerance in Arid horticulture crops and Exploration of Bioactive compound production potential of arid horticulture floras.

Dr. Mukesh K. Berwal's research interests are Abiotic stress tolerance, Secondary metabolites, nutraceuticals, molecular markers etc.