1st Edition
Agricultural Biotechnology Issues, Challenges, and Recent Developments
1. Futuristic and Prospective Role of Agricultural Biotechnology in a Sustainable Environment
Maneesh Kumar, Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, Himanshu Bhardwaj, Bibekananda Bhoi, and Pratik Kumar
2. Improvement in Waterlogging Tolerance in Plants Via Melatonin
Abeer Hashem, Khalid F. Almutairi, Mohamad Alnafissa, Javid A. Parray, Fadime Karabulut, Chadha Ayed, and Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah
3. Abiotic Stress Tolerance: New Breeding Strategies to Improve Drought Tolerance in Canola
Abeer Hashem, Khalid F. Almutairi, Mohamad Alnafissa, Javid A. Parray, and Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah
4. Mobility of Nutrients and Their Metabolism in Agriculture Crops
Gulzar A. Rather, Arti Manhas, and Noopur Sharma
5. Proteomics Applications in Cereal Crops for Food Security under Increasing Abiotic Stresses
Muhammad Irfan Sohail, Natasha Erum, Shafiq Ur Rehman, Mustansar Aslam, Fatima Akmal, Muhammad Shoaib, and Umair Riaz
6. Signaling and Regulatory Pathways Between Plants and Microbial Communities Towards Environments
Maryam Khan, Arooma Jannat, Zuhra Qayyum, Nosheen Fatima, Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, and Rabia Amir
7. Agroecosystem Diversity and Maintenance of Soil and Environment Health
Maneesh Kumar, Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, Dibyangana Ganguly, Lovely Kumari, Komal Kumari, and Manshi Agrawal
8. Recent Advances in the Use of Bionanotechnology for Bioremediation
Munir Ozturk, Sarah Fatima, Shafia Maryam, Sidra Urooj, Fareeha Iqbal, Laila-Tul-Qadar, Syeda Gul Nisa, Muhammad Raza Kaleem, Alvina Gul, Volkan Altay, Bengu Turkyilmaz Unal, and Fazilet Vardar Sukan
9. Endophyte-Mediated Secondary Metabolites Synthesis in Plants: An Omics Approach
Suryanarayan Bhaskar Meghana, Sambamurthy Kumaraswamy Sukrutha, Mallappa Kumara Swamy, Boregowda Purushotham, and Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar
10. Nanobiosensors to Detect Environmental Pollution
Alvina Gul, Noor Ul Huda, Tuba Sharf Batool, Warda Jabbar, Volkan Altay, Fazilet Vardar Sukan, and Munir Ozturk
11. Role of Medicinal Plants in Drug Delivery Systems in Sustainable Systems
Ghlomreza Abdi, Marjan Assefi, Sohila Nankali, Nadeem Kizilbash, Javid Shaghaghi, Maryam Abbasi Tarighat, and Ab Waheedwani
12. Environmental Pollution and Technological Applications
Khola Rafique, Alvina Gul, Volkan Altay, Munir Ozturk, and Pedro Garcia Caparros
Biography
Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, PhD, is a Senior Assistant Professor at Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, U.P., India. He was formerly an Assistant Professor at Jimma University in Ethiopiaand a research fellow at the Universiti Putra Malaysia’s Institute of Tropical Agriculture. He has been listed among the top 2% of scientists in the world consecutively for the past three years, according to Stanford University in the United States. Dr. Akhtar is the author and co-author of more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters, and has edited 21 books with international publishers. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work. He is a member of several professional organizations and is an editorial board member and reviewer for several international journals. He received his PhD degree from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, prior to conducting postdoctoral research at the Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland, and Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea.
Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD, is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He was formerly affiliated with the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India; Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia; and Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Dr. Hakeem has more than 15 years of teaching and research in plant ecophysiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions, as well as in environmental studies. Currently, he is involved with several international research projects with government organizations. To date, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited more than 95 books with international publishers. He also has to his credit more than 200 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 55 book chapters in edited volumes. At present, Dr. Hakeem serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for several high-impact international scientific journals. He is an advisory board member of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, and a fellow of the Plantae Group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, among other memberships.
