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Experimental Botany, Plant Physiology & Biochemistry, Environmental Pollution, Nitric Oxide, Protoplasma, Plant Signalling & Behaviour, Photosynthetica, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum with high impact factor and also published twelve books by Kluwer Academic, Springer, Wiley-VCH, Science Publisher and Narosa Publishing House. Besides this twenty five book chapters has also been published. Dr. Hayat has presented his work at several national and international conferences in Japan, Brazil, Spain, China, Poland and Saudia Arabia. He is a regular reviewer and on the panel of editorial boards of National and International journals, Dr. Hayat is also the member of important National and International scientific societies. Recently he has been appointed as Indian representative in Asia Association of Plant Scientist. Dr. Husna Siddiqui is working in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. She received her B.Sc. degree from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, India whereas M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Botany from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Her thrust area of research includes the study of plant physiology, nanosciences and plant growth regulator-mediated abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants. She has been awarded Excellence Award in Science by Indian Women Scientist Association, Mumbai, India and also received fellowship under DBT-Builder Programme, by AMU, Aligarh. She has published more than 35 research articles in the national as well as international journals of repute with high impact factor such as such as Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Environmental & Experimental Botany, Plant Physiology & Biochemistry, Nitric Oxide, Protoplasma, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, South African Journal of Botany, Carbohydrate Research, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, and Carbohydrate Polymers.Dr. Christos A. Damalas currently serves as an Associate Professor of Agronomy in the Department of Agricultural Development, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He holds a BSc in Plant Science, an MSc in Plant Physiology, and a PhD in Weed Science. In 2000, he received the diploma in Educational Studies from the Technical & Vocational Teacher Training Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece. At the BSc level, Dr. Christos Damalas teaches the courses Cereals and Legumes, Industrial Crops, Weed Science, Aromatic Plants, and Pesticide Application Principles and at the MSc level, he teaches the course Crop Physiology. Before he was appointed as a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural Development, Democritus University of Thrace in 2010, he spent more than eight years in leading positions in the Directorate of Agricultural Development, Pieria Prefecture, Greece as a crop protection specialist. He conducts applied research in the areas of Crop Physiology, Weed Science, Pesticide Safety, and Farmers' Behavior. He has published more than 100 full scientific papers indexed in Web of Science and currently acts as an editorial board member of well-respected journals in the area of Agronomy and Plant Sciences. His research has attracted attention in the international literature