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He has worked as Visiting Scientist at IPK, Gaterleben, Germany and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA. He has published research articles in several peer-reviewed national and international journals and is the lead editor of the book Artemisia annua: Pharmacology and Biotechnology. His research interests include physiological, proteomic, and molecular studies on medicinal and aromatic plants.

Prof. M. Masroor A. Khan is a professor in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India. After completing his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University, USA (1987-88). Then he worked as Pool Scientist for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and a Research Associate for CSIR and the University Grants Commission before he joined AMU as an Assistant Professor. In his 30 years of teaching experience at the university level, he has guided 8 Ph.D., 2 M.Phil., and 27 M.Sc. students. For the convenience of his students, he has also developed study materials and launched more than 100 class notes and PowerPoint presentations on his website. Prof. Khan has run six research projects sponsored by national and international funding agencies and has published more than one hundred research papers in reputable journals and books. In his research, Prof. Khan is working to promote the productivity and active ingredients of medicinal and aromatic plants using different strategies such as the application of mineral nutrition, PGRs, and nanoparticles. Prof. Khan has contributed greatly towards the establishment of Radiation-Processed Polysaccharides (RPPs) as plant growth promoters. In collaboration with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, he is researching the appropriate doses of RPPs that would help farmers increase the productivity of medicinal and aromatic plants and their active constituents. Another field of his research is nanoparticles, some of which he has found can enhance the essential oil production of some aromatic plants. He has also filed a patent in this regard.