Recent Approaches in Omics for Plant Resilience to Climate Change

Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani is Assistant Professor ( Senior Scale) at Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Khudwani –192101, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, J&K, India. He received Ph.D. degree in plant breeding and genetics on “transgenic rice for abiotic stress tolerance” from the Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, India. After obtaining his Ph.D. he worked as research associate in the Biotechnology Laboratory, Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture (ICAR), Srinagar, India. He then joined the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Farm Science Centre) as program coordinator at Senapati, Manipur, India. He teaches courses related to plant breeding, seed science and technology, and stress breeding and has published more than 100 papers/chapters in journals and books of international and national repute. He served as guest editor and reviews editor for journal Frontier in Plant Science (2015-2018). He has also edited several books on current topics in crop improvement for abiotic stress tolerance published by Springer Nature and CRC press USA. His Ph.D. research fetched first prize in the North Zone Competition, at national level, in India. He was awarded Young Scientist Award from the Society for Promotion of Plant Sciences, Jaipur, India, in 2009. He is a fellow of the Society for Plant Research, India. Recently he also received Young Scientist Award (Agriculture) 2015 from Society for Plant Research, Meerut, India. He also served as visiting Scientist at Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, USA under the UGC Raman Post Doctoral Fellowship programme. Currently, he is leading the Wheat improvement programme at MRCFC Khudwani SKAUST Kashmir.

• 1. Omics Technologies for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants: Current status and Prospects.- 2. Genome editing and abiotic stress Tolerance in Plants.- 3. Metabolomic Profiling of plants to understand reasons for plant stress resilience to abiotic stress.- 4. In Vitro Screening of Crop Plants for Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- 5. Open-source software tools, databases and resources for single cell and single cell-type metabolomics.- 6. Advances in functional genomics in investigating salinity tolerance in plants.- 7. Drought stress in Chickpea: Physiological, Breeding and Omics Perspectives.- 8. GM maize for abiotic stresses; Potentials and opportunities.- 9. Novel breeding and biotechnological approaches to mitigate effects of heat stress on cotton.- 10. Modulation Of Proteome And Phosphoproteome Under Abiotic Stress In Plants: An Overview.- 11. Ionomic approaches for the discovery of novel abiotic stress tolerance genes in plants.- 12. Unravelling the complex networks involved in Plant stress tolerance through Metabolomics.