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Mohammad Yusuf Author & Editor

Tariq Aftab received his Ph.D. in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India, and is currently Assistant Professor there. He is Recipient of a prestigious Leibniz-DAAD fellowship from Germany, Raman Fellowship from the Government of India, and Young Scientist Awards from the State Government of Uttar Pradesh (India) and Government of India. After completing his doctorate, he has worked as Research Fellow at National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, and as Postdoctoral Fellow at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. Dr. Aftab also worked as Visiting Scientist at Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA. He is a member of various scientific associations from India and abroad. He has edited 10 books with international publishers, including Elsevier Inc., Springer Nature and CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), co-authored several book chapters and published over 65 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals. His research interests include physiological, proteomic and molecular studies on medicinal and crop plants.

Mohammad Yusuf is working as a Lecturer in the Department of Biology, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE. Mohammad received his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology and M.Sc. in Botany (Plant Physiology) from Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has worked as SERB-Young Scientist on Government of India funded project. He has been awarded with the prestigious Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Government of India and CST-UP Young Scientist from the state Government of Uttar Pradesh (India). He has also been invited to present his work in Gordon Research Conference at Switzerland and Huazhong Agricultural University (HAU), Wuhan, China. Mohammad’s research contribution includes more than 50 research articles in the international journals of repute and a book. His Google Scholar citations have crossed 2500 with 26 h-index. He is an active reviewer of various reputed journals from Elsevier and Springer. Currently, he is exploring phytohormone-mediated abiotic stress tolerance mechanism in crop plants through proline metabolism.