List of Contributors

Muhammad Adrees
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Gaurav Agarwal
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Georgia, USA

Arif Ali
Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

Shafaqat Ali
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Raghavendra Aminedi
National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, IARI Campus, PUSA, New Delhi, India;

Regional Centre for Biotechnology, NRC Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Saeed Bagherifam
School of Science and Technology, C023 Riggs Building (Chemistry), University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia

Adriana Basile
Department of Biology, University Federico II, Naples, Italy

Maria Pilar Bernal
Department of Soil and Water Conservation and Organic Waste Management, CEBAS-CSIC, Murcia, Spain

Purnima Bhandari
Sector 36-A, Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh, India

Shefali Bhardwaj
Department of Environment Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Amrit Bharti
Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Javaid Akhter Bhat
School of Biotechnology, SKUAST-Jammu, Chatha, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Ramcharan Bhattacharya
National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, IARI Campus, PUSA, New Delhi, India

Aditi Bisht
Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Priyanka Borah
Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

Juhi Chaudhary
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Florida, Florida, USA

Amandeep Cheema
Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Rafael Clemente
Department of Soil and Water Conservation and Organic Waste Management, CEBAS-CSIC, Murcia, Spain

Arindam Datta
Center for Environmental Studies, Earth Sciences & Climate Change Division, The Energy and Resources Institute, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India

Rupesh Deshmukh
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India

Bhupinder Dhir
School of Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India

Sutapa Dutta
Center for Environmental Studies, Earth Sciences & Climate Change Division, The Energy and Resources Institute, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India

Sergio Esposito
Department of Biology, University Federico II, Naples, Italy

Hassan Etesami
Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, Agriculture & Natural Resources Campus, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Ameer Fawad
Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Neera Garg
Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Mansour Ghorbanpour
Department of Medicinal Plants, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Arak University, Arak, Iran

Ume Habiba
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Bum-Soo Hahn
Metabolic Engineering Division, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, Korea

Mehrnaz Hatami
Department of Medicinal Plants, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Arak University, Arak, Iran

S.M. Teresa Hernández-Sotomayor
Unidad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Plantas, CICY, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Milad Heydari
Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

Afzal Hussain
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Lakita Kashyap
Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Gurpreet Kaur
Department of Chemistry and Center of Advanced Studies in Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Mahipal Singh Kesawat
Metabolic Engineering Division, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, Korea; Department of Agriculture, Sri Sri University, Cuttack, India

Praveen Khatri
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India

Dong Kyun Kim
School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Murali Krishna Koramutla
National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, IARI Campus, PUSA, New Delhi, India

Gulshan Kumar
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India

Manu Kumar
Department of Life Sciences, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

Rajeev Kumar
Department of Environment Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Vajinder Kumar
National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, IARI Campus, PUSA, New Delhi, India

Vanish Kumar
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India

Behnam Asgari Lajayer
Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Simone Landi
Department of Biology, University Federico II, Naples, Italy

Asim Mansha
Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Viviana Maresca
Department of Biology, University Federico II, Naples, Italy

Isabel Martínez-Alcalá
Department of Civil Engineering of the Catholic University of San Antonio, UCAM, Murcia, Spain

Nader Khadem Moghadam
Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran

José A. Muñoz-Sánchez
Unidad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Plantas, CICY, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Syed Ali Raza Naqvi
Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Manisha Negi
Government PG College, Gopeshwar, Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India

Seyed Ali Ghaffari Nejad
Department of Soil Chemistry, Fertility and Plant Nutrition, Soil and Water Research Institute (SWRI), Karaj, Iran

Valeria Paradisone
Department of Biology, University Federico II, Naples, Italy

Roberto Pech-Kú
Unidad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Plantas, CICY, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Hasthi Ram
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India

Nitika Rana
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India

Nasir Rasool
Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Ravinder
Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Muhammad Rizwan
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Beatriz Rodas-Junco
CONACYT, Facultad de Ingeniería Química, Campus de Ciencias Exactas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Periférico Norte, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Byoung Ryong Jeong
Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences (CALS), [& Division of Applied Life Science (BK21+ Program), Graduate School], Gyeongsang National University (GNU), Jinju, Korea

Davood Saghafi
Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Kiran Saroy
Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Asad Ali Shah
Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Rizwan Shahid
Institute of Soil & Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Amrita Sharma
Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

S.M. Shivaraj
Departement de Phytologie, University Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada

Sandeep Singh
Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Humira Sonah
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India

Naresh Vasupalli
National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, IARI Campus, PUSA, New Delhi, India

Shabir H. Wani
Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Sher-e-Kashmir, University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Khudwani Anantnag,...