Salicylic Acid: A Multifaceted Hormone

Dr. Rahat Nazar obtained her Masters and Ph.D from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. She has done Post Doc from Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India. She has worked as JRF and SRF in the DST and UGC funded projects during research. She has published many research papers in leading journals of the world with high impact factor. She has also edited two books and one authored book. Dr. Rahat Nazar is a life of member of Indian Society for Plant Physiology (ISPP) and National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), New Delhi, India. She has been awarded with Junior Scientist Award (2010) by National Environmental Science Academy. Dr. Rahat research work is actively engaged in studying the role of phytohormones and mineral nutrition with special emphasis of photosynthetic efficiency and nutrient-use efficiency under optimal and abiotic stress conditions.



Dr. Noushina Iqbal has done her Ph.D from Aligarh and then Post Doc from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. She has many good publications in journals of national and international repute with high impact and has written 5 chapters and presented 4 papers in conferences. She has edited 2 books and authored 1 book. She is an eminent researcher and worked as a project fellow in UPCST funded research project and received UGC-BSR and CSIR-SRF fellowship during research. She is a member of Indian Society for Plant Physiology (ISPP). Dr. Iqbal works on the role of phytohormones, osmolytes and nutritional factors particularly nitrogen and sulfur in combating abiotic stress.





Nafees A. Khan, Professor of Plant Physiology is affiliated with Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh (India). Prof. Khan obtained bachelor, masters and doctoral degrees at AMU, Aligarh, and also earned D.Sc. at the same university. In addition to innovative teaching, he is fond of researching and publishing and has to his credit more than 170 significant peer-reviewed scientific papers and a dozen