Nanotechnology for Agriculture: A Potential Tool for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

Author Biography

Ashwani Kumar, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Botany at the Metagenomics and Secretomics Research Laboratory of the University of Allahabad (A Central University), Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. Before this, he worked for more than nine years at Dr Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya University, Sagar, India. His research focuses on plant-microbe interactions, metagenomics, lignocellulosic biofuels, and bioremediation. He is a life member and/or fellow of the Biotech Research Society India, the National Institute of Ecology, and the International Society of Environmental Botanists in India, and the Linnean Society of London. He published over 80 articles, 30 book chapters, and one edited book. He is serving as an editorial board member for several prestigious journals. He has been featured in the list of Top 2% Scientists Worldwide 2023 by Stanford University. He earned his PhD in bioenergy from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, and was a postdoctoral fellow (2011–2013) at the Durban University of Technology and Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He earned several awards and fellowships. Ayamn El Sabagh, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Siirt University, Turkey, where he is working on sustainability, crop productivity, and stress management of field crops under the current climatic era. He has worked on several internationally funded projects and is involved in many academic and administrative activities at the institute/university level. He has published more than 100 research and review papers in peer-reviewed reputed journals. He has also contributed over 50 chapters to books published at the international level. Dr. El Sabagh graduated from Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt, and earned his PhD from the Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Japan, under the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education channel program, where he contributed to studying the physiological approaches for enhancing the stress tolerance of crop plants as a postdoctoral fellow. He performed research at Cukurova University, Turkey, as a postdoctoral fellow funded by TÜBITAK-Turkey. Recently, he was awarded inclusion in the Talented Young Scientist Program (TYSP) at the Crop Research Institute of Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China.