Gasotransmitters Signaling in Plant Abiotic Stress: Gasotransmitters in Adaptation of Plants to Abiotic stress

Author Biography

Prof. Nafees A. Khan is Professor in Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He did his Ph.D and D.Sc from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has about 30 years of teaching experience ande has successfully guided 37+ M.Sc. dissertation and supervised 20 Ph.D. theses. He has been recognized as Highly Cited Researcher-2019 and 2020 (Web of Science), Eminent Scientist Award 2019 by Samagra Vikas Welfare Society, Lucknow, UGC Research Award 2005 and UGC Mid-Career Award-2018 and many more. He is Fellow of Linnean Society of London, Indian Society of Plant Physiology, and Indian Botanical Society. He has successfully completed or ongoing 9 research projects as Principal Investigator mainly involving gasotransmitters and has published more than 164 papers in peer reviewed international journals. He is an editorial member in several peer reviewed journals. He has edited several books published from Springer, Elsevier, NOVA, CRC Pressand others. Dr. Mehar Fatma is Assistant Professor in Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. She did her M.phil and Ph.D from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and then she completed her Post-doc as Principal Investigator from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (NPDF-SERB, DST-New Delhi and DSKPDF, UGC-New Delhi). During her Ph.D, she received the INSPIRE Fellowship from DST-New Delhi for the first rank holder and bagged University Gold medal. She also got the prestigious MANF National Fellowship from UGC-New Delhi during her M.Phil and Merit Scholarship in masters as a meritorious student. She has more than 26 peer reviewed international publications and has attended conferences and seminars. She also visited Edinburgh, Scotland and presented her research paper. Her research papers have lots of citation and have high impact factor. She is also life member of Indian Society for Plant Physiology and Indian Botanical Society andreview editor for the Journal of Frontiers in Agronomy. Dr. Zebus Sehar did her Masters and Ph.D from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and then she worked as a Senior Research Fellow in a CSIR-funded research project with Prof. Nafees A. Khan in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. During her Ph.D she received the Fellowships for meritorious student. She has several research publications in high Impact Factor peer reviewed international journals. She is also life member of National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), and recipient of Junior Scientist Award of NESA.