Dr. Mohammad Anwar Hossain is a Professor in the Department of
Genetics and Plant Breeding, Bangladesh Agricultural
University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh. He received his B.Sc. in Agriculture
and M.S. in Genetics and Plant Breeding from Bangladesh Agricultural
University, Bangladesh. He also received a M.Sc. in Agriculture from Kagawa University,
Japan in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Abiotic Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology
from Ehime University, Japan in 2011. In November 2015 he moved to Tokyo
University, Japan, as a postdoctoral scientist to work on isolating low
phosphorus stress tolerance genes/QTLs from rice. He has published 25 research
articles, 15 book chapters, and 5 review articles on important aspects of plant
physiology and breeding, plant stress responses and tolerance mechanisms, and
exogenous chemical priming-induced abiotic stress tolerance. Recently, he
edited a book entitled “Managing Salt Tolerance in Plants: Molecular and
Genomic Perspectives” published by CRC press, Taylor and Francis Group, USA. He has attended several International and
National conferences for presenting his research findings. He is a professional member of the Bangladesh Society of
Genetics and Plant Breeding, Bangladesh Association for Plant Tissue Culture
and Biotechnology, and the Seed Science Society of Bangladesh.
Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Genetics and Plant Breeding, Sher-e-Kashmir University of
Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir,
India. He received his B.Sc. in Agriculture from BhimRao Agricultural
University Agra, India and M.Sc. in Genetics and Plant Breeding from
Central Agricultural University, Manipur, India and Ph.D. in Plant
Breeding and Genetics on “Transgenic rice for abiotic stress tolerance” from
the Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana India. After obtaining his PhD he
worked as Research Associate in the Biotechnology Laboratory, ICAR-Central
Institute of temperate Horticulture, Rangreth Srinagar India for two years, up
to October 2011. In November 2011 he joined the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Farm
Science Centre) as Programme Coordinator (i/c) at Senapati Manipur, India. He
teaches courses related to plant breeding, seed science and technology, and
stress breeding, and has published more than 80 papers/chapters in journals,
and books of international and national repute. He has also edited several
books on current topics in crop Improvement including “Managing Salt Tolerance
in Plants: Molecular and Genomic Perspectives” published by CRC press, Taylor
and Francis Group, USA in 2015. His Ph.D. research resulted in first prize
in North zone, at National level, competition in India. He was awarded a Young
Scientist award from the society for Promotion of Plant Sciences, Jaipur India
in 2009. He is the fellow of the Society for Plant Research,
India. Recently he also received Young Scientist Award (Agriculture) 2015
from Society for Plant Research, Meerut, India. He has been
selected for one year University Grants Commission funded RAMAN fellowship for
Post Doc Research in Michigan State University USA for the year
2016-17. He has attended several International and National conferences,
presenting his research.
Dr. Soumen Bhattacharjee, presently Head, UGC Centre for Advanced
Studies, Department of Botany, the University of Burdwan, West Bengal, completed
his Masters in Botany and Ph.D. on the abiotic stress physiology of plants at
the University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India. Later, he started his teaching
career as a faculty member in the Department of Botany in Delhi University
Constituent College. After serving almost two and half years, he joined the West
Bengal Education Service and worked mainly in the Post Graduate Department of
Botany, Hooghly Mohsin College, West Bengal, as Lecturer, Reader and Associate
Professor. In 2007, Dr Bhattacharjee was selected by the Indian Council of
Agricultural Research (ICAR) as a Senior Scientist and joined the Vivekanada
Institute of Hill Agriculture, Almora, India. In 2013 he joined the University
of Burdwan as Associate Professor. His research interests center around plant redox
biology, particularly understanding the relationship between oxidative stress
and plant growth, and the role of ROS signalling in stress acclimation, characterization
of redox-regulatory mechanisms during germination of rice under abiotic stress
and understanding the physiological basis of antioxidant accumulation in under-utilized
medicinal plants. He has published 34 Research papers in International peer
reviewed journals, 12 Review articles in various National and International
Journals and 14 Book chapters, and has 6 edited books and journal volumes. He
is also the member of several professional Research bodies and is a guest
editor and reviewer for several international peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. David J. Burritt is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Botany, The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He received his B.Sc.
and M.Sc. (hons) in Botany, and his Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology from The
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. His research interests
include oxidative stress and redox biology, plant based foods and bioactive
molecules, plant breeding and biotechnology, cryopreservation of germplasm, and
the stress biology of plants, animals and algae. He has over 90 peer-reviewed
publications.
Dr. Lam-Son Phan Tran is Head of the Signaling Pathway Research Unit
at RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan. He obtained his M.Sc.
in Biotechnology in 1994 and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in 1997, from Szent
Istvan University, Hungary. After doing his postdoctoral research at the National Food Research Institute (1999-2000) and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology of
Japan (2001), in October 2001, he joined the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences to work on the functional analysis of
transcription factors and osmosensors in Arabidopsis plants under stress. In August 2007,
he moved to the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA as a Senior Research
Scientist to coordinate a research team working to discover soybean genes to be
used for genetic engineering of drought-tolerant soybean plants. His current
research interests are elucidation of the roles of phytohormones and their
interactions in abiotic stress responses, as well as translational genomics of
legume crops with the aim to enhance crop productivity under adverse
environmental conditions. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers with
more than 70 research and 20 review articles, contributed 7 book chapters to
various book editions published by Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, and American
Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society
of America. He has also edited 5 book volumes for Springer, including this one.
