Cadmium Tolerance in Plants

Mirza Hasanuzzaman is a professor of agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his PhD from the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences. Later, he completed his postdoctoral research in the Center of Molecular Biosciences (COMB), University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. Subsequently, he became an adjunct senior researcher at the University of Tasmania with an Australian government’s Endeavour Research Fellowship. Over his career he has mentored numerous master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral researchers and has published widely on plant physiology, plant stress responses, and environmental challenges affecting plant species, including authored and edited books and book chapters. He serves as an editor and reviewer for many peer-reviewed international journals and was a recipient of the Publons Peer Review Awards (2017, 2018, and 2019). He is an active member of numerous professional societies and holds office as acting general secretary of the Bangladesh JSPS Alumni Association and as publication secretary of both the Bangladesh Society of Agronomy and the Weed Science Society of Bangladesh. His honors include the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Young Scientist Award (2014), the University Grants Commission (UGC) Gold Medal (2018), the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) Gold Medal Award (Senior Group, 2022), the Global Network of Bangladeshi Biotechnologists (GNOBB) Award (2021), and the Society for Plant Research Young Scientist Award (Agriculture, 2023). He is a fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the Royal Society of Biology, and the International Society of Environmental Botanists, and a foreign fellow of the Society for Science of Climate Change and Sustainable Environment. Kamrun Nahar is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Botany at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She received her PhD in environmental stress physiology of plants in 2016 from the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University, Japan, on a Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarship. Dr. Nahar has been engaged in research on field crops, with an emphasis on stress physiology, since 2006. She has completed several research projects and is currently conducting research funded by the Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Research System and the Ministry of Science and Technology (Bangladesh). She supervises master's students. Dr. Nahar has published numerous articles and book chapters on plant physiology and environmental stresses with publishers including Springer, Elsevier, CRC Press, and Wiley. She is involved in editorial activities and serves as a reviewer for international journals. She is an active member of numerous professional societies. She has attended and presented papers and posters at national and international conferences in several countries.

• 1. Cadmium uptake, transportation, and hyperaccumulation in plants2. Molecular mechanisms of the plant cadmium stress response3. Recent advances in genomic and genetic approaches to enhance Cd tolerance in plants4. Genetic control of metal uptake and sequestration in hyperaccumulating plants5. Cadmium phytotoxicity – biomarkers6. Understanding of Cadmium toxicity and tolerance in higher plants by proteomic approach7. Biotechnological tools in remediation of cadmium toxicity8. Novel technologies for developing cadmium tolerance9. Putting the pieces together: Cadmium-induced oxidative stress and signaling in plants10. Plant metallothioneins: diversification for cadmium handling 11. Agronomic management for cadmium stress mitigation12. Inorganic amendments for the remediation of cadmium contaminated soils13. Organic manures for cadmium tolerance and remediation14. Cadmium induced toxicity in Sorghum bicolor- Alleviation by zinc and aggravation by phosphate15. Role of organic acids in mitigating Cadmium toxicity in plants16. Role of chitin and chitosan in mitigating cadmium toxicity in plants17. Application of biosolids/biochar for cadmium minimization in crops