Ambreen Asif Editor

Altaf Ahmad is a Professor of Plant Biotechnology in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Dr. Ahmad has research experience of 22 years and more than 125 significant publications. A regular reviewer and on the panel of editorial boards of National and International journals, Dr. Ahmad is a member of prestigious National and International scientific societies. He guided thesis research of 30 Ph.D. students (12 as supervisor and 18 as co-supervisor) and over 30 M.Sc. students. He organized several national and international seminars/symposia. Dr. Ahmad handled several research projects funded by various agencies like BBSRS-UK, DST, DBT, CSIR, UGC, CCRUM, ICAR, and INSA. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Virginia Polytechnic and State University, USA University of Freiburg, University of Aberdeen, and the University of Cologne. Based on his research contribution, Dr. Ahmad has been honored with the INSA Medal for Young Scientist (2003) and Professor LSS Kumar Memorial Award (2003) of Indian National Science Academy, Young Scientist Award (2005) of Council of Science & Technology, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh, and elected as Associate of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Ambreen Asif is working as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. She earned her M.Sc. (Botany) degree by this university in 2013 and secured first position in order of merit, and was awarded Ph.D. degree on a topic “Characterization of genetic variability and mutagenicity” induced by mutagens in Nigella sativa L. – an important medicinal herb of India” in 2019. She published several significant research papers in journals of national and international repute like Industrial Crop Products, Scientific Reports, Genes and Plants. She is a frequent participant of scientific conferences and seminars in India.
She is a thorough meritorious student as evident by awards like “University Gold Medal” for securing First position in M.Sc. (Botany), “Anjalina Khan Award” for securing First position in B.Sc. (Honors), and Mrs. M.J. Haider Academic Memorial Award” for securing First position in Class 9th in Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. She is recipient of Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) fellowship, a flagship programme of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India for her Ph.D. work. She has also been awarded NEWS-India fellowship of BBSRC, UK for getting advance training in the University of Aberdeen, UK for three months.