Brassinosteroids Signalling

Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Government of India. He has also been invited to present his work at Huazhong Agricultural University (HAU), Wuhan, China. Mohammad's research contribution includes more than 50 research articles in the international journal of repute and also more than 2500 google scholar citations with 26 h-index. He is exploring phytohormones mediated abiotic stress tolerance mechanism in crop plants through proline metabolism

 

Qazi Fariduddin

Qazi Fariduddin is Professor of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India where he has been serving as faculty since 2006. He has been extensively working in the field of agricultural biotechnology to explore the abiotic stress tolerance mechanism in plants through physiological and molecular approaches. The findings of his work have revealed that brassinosteroids (BRs) and salicylic acid improved the yield and quality of plants under low temperatures, salt, water, and heavy metal stress and could be exploited as a farmer friendly tool to overcome the menace of crop losses due to various abiotic stresses. Moreover, his findings have also revealed the potential role of hydrogen peroxide and polyamines in conferring tolerance to abiotic stresses in crop plants. His lab is extensively using proteomic approaches to reveal the novel pathway protein expressed under various abiotic stresses in plants. He had Visited Göttingen University, Göttingen, Germany for six months under BOYSCAST Fellowship and conducted experiments related to the topic "Molecular studies of salt tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana". He has visited Michigan State University, Michigan, the USA on an International Research Project with a specific objective to generate information on "Host target modification as a strategy to counter pathogen hijacking of the jasmonate hormone receptor" (Published in PNAS, 2015). He has published more than 80 research papers in th