Muhammad Bilal Hafeez Editor

Muhammad Bilal Hafeez is doing Ph.D. from College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, China. He did M.Sc (Hons.) Agronomy from the Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. He published over 40 refereed journal papers and 8 book chapters. He does research in Agricultural Plant Science (plant physiology, abiotic stresses, especially salinity, drought and heavy metal stresses). He is currently focusing on combined abiotic stress tolerance in crops perspective of food and nutrition security. Prof. Dr. Abdul Wahid is working as Professor from the Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan. He published over 200 refereed journal papers. He completed his Ph.D. in Botany from the Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. Environmental stresses are major constraints to the productivity of crops throughout the world. It is therefore imperative that mechanisms and causes of the stress effects on plant growth and development may be determined systematically, and strategies may be adopted to overcome adverse effects of stresses in order to achieve maximum productivity from the salinity, high temperature and drought-hit areas. His current interests are focused on the expression of stress proteins and other stress related primary and secondary metabolites under water, salinity, heat and cadmium stresses, and finding strategies to fetch greater yields under such conditions. He has more than twenty years of teaching/research experience in Botany. Professor Muhammad Farooq is a distinguished academician currently serving as Professor and Head of the Department of Plant Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman. He also holds concurrent positions as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia (since 2011) and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dankook University, South Korea (since 2013). His research, on crop water relations and adaptation to dryland environments, has encompassed providing fundamental understanding of the response of crops to abiotic stresses. Noreen Zahra is working as Assistant Professor in Plant Physiology, Department of Botany, Government College Women University Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan. She completed her Ph.D. in Botany from the Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. She published 30 refereed journal papers, many of which have sought to understand the morphological, physiological, biochemical and molecular basis of crop responses to individual and concurrent abiotic stresses and mechanisms imparting tolerance for such stresses. She devised promising strategies for improving crop performance under sub-optimum conditions (salinity, drought, submergence, temperature extremes, metal toxicity) and suggested various novel indicators for augmenting stress tolerance in plants.