New Frontiers in Plant-Environment Interactions

Tariq Aftab received his Ph.D. in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India, and is currently Assistant Professor there. He is the 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 Post-doctorate 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 Member of various scientific associations from India and abroad as well as Editorial Board Member of various international scientific journals. He has edited 22 books with international publishers, including Elsevier Inc., Springer Nature, and CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), co-authored several book chapters, and published over 80 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals. His research interests include physiological, proteomic, and molecular studies on medicinal and crop plants.

• Chapter 01 - Plant-Environment Interactions: The Dynamics of the Skill and Beyond.- Chapter 02 - Plant-Environment Interactions: Proteomics, Metabolomics and Genetic Engineering Perspective.- Chapter 03 - How environment-plant interactions regulate vascular architecture and ecological adaptation.- Chapter 04 - Modern approaches in studying the role of plant-microbial interactions: A way towards the development of sustainable agriculture.- Chapter 05 - Emerging roles of nanomaterials in plant-salinity interaction.- Chapter 06 - Exploring the critical function and molecular mechanism of WRKY transcription factor family in regulating plant response under abiotic stress conditions.- Chapter 07 - CRISPR/Cas Mediated Genome Editing for Improving Stress Resilience in Plants.- Chapter 08 - Impact of abiotic stresses on production of secondary metabolites in medicinal and aromatic plants.- Chapter 09 - Seed Bio-priming: an emerging tool towards improved germination and agricultural sustainability.- Chapter 10 - Effects of drought stress on agricultural plants, and molecular strategies for drought tolerant crop development.- Chapter 11 - The rhizosphere - A hub of emerging importance for plant biotic interactions.- Chapter 12 - Genomic and proteomic approaches to enhance stress tolerance in plants for creating stress-resilient species.- Chapter 13 - Biochar-assisted phytoremediation for heavy metals-contaminated soils.- Chapter 14 - Impact of Changing Abiotic Environment on Photosynthetic Adaptation in Plants.- Chapter 15 - Use of Tissue Culture Methods to Improve Stress Tolerance in Plants.- Chapter 16 - Research challenges of sustainable cultivation of important medicinal plants in Oman; Insight into the plant environment interactions based on different climatic zones.- Chapter 17 - Impacts of particulate matterpollution on plants.- Chapter 18 - Physiological approaches to improve the productivity of crops under the climate change conditions.- Chapter 19 - Redesigning root architecture for improved performance of plants under stress.- Chapter 20 - Plant‒Microbe Interaction in Developing Climate-Resilient Crop Species.- Chapter 21 - Traditional and emerging climate-resilient agricultural practices for enhancing food production and nutritional quality.