Plant Signaling Molecules (ePub)

Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. He is associate fellow of Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences from 2015. He has worked in Germany and Philippines on genomics and molecular aspects of abiotic stress tolerance and genome editing. He has published more than 32 research articles in international peer reviewed journals and also has 5 book chapters and a patent to his credit. He is a reviewer of several reputed international journals, including Frontiers in plant science, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, BMC Genomics, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Gene and PLoS ONE.

Area of expertise:

Functional genomics, Gene expression, Molecular biology and Genome editing

Antonio Ferrante is an Associate Professor at the University of Milan, Italy, and served as Researcher/Assistant Professor at the Department of Crop Science, University of Milan from 2004 -2016. He has 18 years of research and teaching experience. He received a fellowship from the SSSA to conduct research studies on postharvest physiology of Gerbera at the Agrotechnological Research Institute, Wageningen, Netherlands and spent as a Visitor Researcher at the Department of Environmental Horticulture, University of California, Davis, CA, USA, in Professor M. S. Reid's laboratory, returning several times to do additional research at both UCD and UCSD. He has served as visiting teaching professor with ERASMUS program in Cardiff University (2015) and Almeria University (2017). His research activities are related to the understanding plant responses to abiotic stresses; on the role of plant hormones on regulating leaf and flower senescence; molecular studies on the ethylene biosynthesis and actions in plants; postharvest physiology and biology of horticultural crops. His research activities contributed to the registration to a US and world patent on “Compositions and Methods for Preventing leaf yellowing in plants. He has been guest editor of “Ethylene: A key regulatory molecule in plants" in Frontiers in Plant Science and has published more than 100 international publications in peer-reviewed journals.

With 30 years of research and teaching experience, Professor Nafees A. Khan is a plant physiologist at Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. His current research interest is understanding the mechanisms of hormonal and nutritional regulation of plant growth with special emphasis on abiotic stress vis-a-vis photosynthetic efficiency and abiotic stress tolerance. He has edited 14 books and published more than 170 peer-reviewed research articles in journals of international and national repute. He has won various prestigious awards and serves as Vice President of the National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), India.