Cultivation for Climate Change Resilience, Volume 1 (PDF)

Adel A. Abul-Soad, Obtained his PhD from the Fruit Research Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University in 2003 in date palm. Currently he is working as Deputy Director of the Horticulture Research Institute, Egypt, for Research Affairs. He served as a foreign professor in the Botany Department, Shah Abdul Latif University, Pakistan, for 7 years on and off starting in 2006. Scientific achievements include more than 60 published research papers in local and international impact factor journals; 12 published books and chapters as leading author and coauthor written in 3 languages (English, Arabic and Urdu); supervised 16 MSc and PhD students; Principal Investigator and foreign counterpart for several research projects in Egypt, Pakistan and Nigeria; Associate Editor of the Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology published by Elsevier; and reviewer of a number of international ISI journals including Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, Tropical Plant Pathology, Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences, Applied Biological Research and Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences.

He was also a consultant to agriculture companies in Egypt, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for various plant species including date palm, banana and other tropical species; conducting a series of international short training courses annually from 2013-2015; awarded a medal from ISHS, Belgium as a convener for the 9th International Symposium of In Vitro Culture and Horticultural Breeding (Giza, March, 2016); Award of Excellence from Nigerian Institute of Oil Palm in 2014; shield of meritorious services as a consultant to Date Palm Research Institute in 2013, Pakistan; and participated in the organizing and scientific committees of international conferences and contributed over forty scientific presentations.

Jameel M. Al-Khayri, Professor of plant biotechnology at the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology,