Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants (PDF)

Dr. M. Iqbal R. Khan is an Assistant Professor of Botany at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. His current research interests are elucidation physiological and molecular mechanisms associated with abiotic stress tolerance and looking for suitable QTLs/genes/metabolites and/or germplasm for developing breeding or gene editing pipelines. Working on the metabolism of plants under different abiotic stresses, Dr. Khan has found a significant role of phytohormones in the regulation of plant growth and development and have suggested that phytohormones play an important in controlling stress responses and interacts in coordination with each other for defense signal networking to fine tune tolerance mechanisms. He is also exploring the regulatory role of signalling molecules and their impact on nutrient homeostasis and source-sink relationship under abiotic stresses. Dr. Khan has published more than 45 journal articles, 07 book chapters and has edited four books (including this). He has been recognized as Young Scientist of the Year from Indian Society of Plant Physiology and Scientific and Environmental Research Institute, India and Junior Scientist of the Year from National Environmental Science Academy New Delhi, India. He has been guest editor of "Ethylene: A key regulatory molecule in plants" in Frontiers in Plant Science and currently editing a special issue in Frontiers in Plant Science on "Plant Responses to the Dark Scenario".

Dr. Amarjeet Singh is a scientist and member of faculty at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India. He has undertaken several genomics and functional genomics studies to identify, understand the differential expression pattern at the whole genome level and functionally characterized crucial genes in rice and Arabidopsis. At NIPGR, his research group is interested in deciphering the signaling networks and molecular mechanism of abiotic stresses (drought, salinity, cold)