Sustainable Science and Technologies for Agriculture and Environment

M. Iqbal R. Khan is an Assistant Professor of Botany at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. His current research interests are physiological and molecular mechanisms associated with abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Dr. Khan identified a significant role of phytohormones in the regulation of plant growth and development, which suggested that phytohormones play an important in controlling stress responses, and interact with each other for defense signal networking to fine tune tolerance mechanisms. He is also exploring the regulatory role of other plant signaling molecules and their impact on plant homeostasis especially source-sink relationship under abiotic stresses. He has been recognized as Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award, The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), and has been recognized as Young Scientist of the Year, receiving the award from Scientific and Environmental Research Institute, India. He has been guest editor of “Ethylene: A key regulatory molecule in plants" in Frontiers in Plant Science. Professor Mohammad Afshar Alam completed is presently working as Vice- Chancellor and Professor and Dean of School of Engineering Sciences and Technology at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. His research areas include Software Re-engineering, Data Mining, Bio-Informatics, Fuzzy databases, and Sustainable Development. He has authored 10 books, supervised more than 30 Doctoral students and more than 200 Post Graduate research projects and has more than 160 research papers in reputed journals to his credit. He is conferred with many prestigious awards like Bharat Samaj Ratna Award, AMP Award for Excellence in Education, Cooperative Citizen Award, World Environment Day Award, and Spardha Shree Award. He is also the member of various government bodies at both National and International level including University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Department of Science & Technology (DST).Dr. Malik Zainul Abdin is Professor of Biotechnology in Jamia Hamdard’s School of Chemical and Life Sciences, India. He obtained his B.S. from Aligarh Muslim University and his Ph.D. from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. Professor Abdin specializes in plant biotechnology, plant-derived therapeutics, and phytopharmaceutical innovation. His work spans metabolic engineering, molecular genetics, and bioactive compound stabilization. He brings more than three decades of research and teaching experience to the project, and has edited six prior volumes, including Elsevier’s Transgenic Technology Based Value Addition in Plant Biotechnology.

• 1. Environmental drivers of sustainable agricultural developmental and regional case studies2. Climate smart agriculture and food safety under environmental perturbations3. Plausible environmental pollutants and agricultural productivity4. Soil management and introduction of cover crops under environmental variants5. Deficit irrigation strategies with mineral and organic fertilization6. Agricultural practices under environmental stresses in current climate change7. Crop health under pests and diseases8. Green technologies role in advancing the environmental stress conditions with case studies9. Transitions of food systems to monitor crop sustainability10. Stay green trait to promote crop yield adaptations under environmental stress11. Biotechnological significance in crop resilience against environmental stress12. Carbon footprints in agriculture13. High-throughput phenotyping of crops under environmental stressors14. Recent advancement of SDGs in environmental stresses15. Plant growth stimulants-mediated mechanisms to impart environmental stress tolerance.16. Crosstalk between plant growth stimulants under environmental stress-affiliated responses to ensure global agricultural sustainability17. Omics (transciptomics, metabolomics, and proteomics) role in environmental stress adaptation