§ Accumulation, partitioning, and bioavailability of micronutrients in plants
Monika A. Wimmer
Institute of Crop Sciences and Resource Conservation Department of Plant Nutrition, University of Bonn, Karlrobert-Kreiten-Strasse 13, 53115 Bonn, Germany
Email: m.wimmer@uni_bonn.de
§ Optimal use efficiency of micronutrients
Samia Oueslati
Franciszek Gorski Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow
Email: oueslati-samia@yahoo.fr
§ Effects of micronutrient fertilization on the overall quality of the crops
Tariq Aftab
Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Email: tarik.alig@gmail.com
§ Abiotic and biotic stress induced alterations in micronutrients status of plants Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah
Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Email: eabdallah@ksu.edu.sa
§ Biotechnological approaches for increasing micronutrients use efficiency
Raheem Haddad
Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: raheemhaddad@yahoo.co.uk
§ Micronutrients movement and signalling in plants Jozef Kovacik
Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska, Brno, Czech Republic
Email: jozkovacik@yahoo.com
§ Effects of micronutrients on secondary metabolite production Sheng Qin
The key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Medicinal Plant of Jiangsu Province, School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University
Email: shengqin@jsnu.edu.cn
§ Hyperaccumulation of potentially toxic elements by plants
Jozef Kovacik
Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska, Brno, Czech Republic
Email: jozkovacik@yahoo.com
§ Biofortification technologies used in agriculture in relation to micronutrients
Leon V. Kochian
US Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
Email: LVK1@cornell.edu
§ Spectroscopy and other studies for determination of micronutrients in plants
Doga Selin Kahiyan
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Gebze Technical University, Kocaeli, Turkey
Email: dgumusel@gtu.edu.tr
§ Cycling of micronutrients in the ecosystem M. Alberdi
Centre of Plant-Soil Interaction and Natural Resources Biotechnology-Scientific and Technological Bioresources Nucleus (BIOREN), University of La Frontera, Casilla, Chile.
Email: malberdi@ufro.cl
§ Application of Nano-carriers for plant micronutrients
Altaf Ahmad
Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Email: ahmadaltaf72@gmail.com
§ Micronutrients use efficiency in plants
Mei Yang
Microelement Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Email: yangmei815815@webmail.hzau.edu.cn
§ Proteomic studies of micronutrient deficiency and toxicity Dan Wang
Tropical Crops Genetic Resources Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, China
Email: wang_dan1414@163
About the Author: Dr. Tariq Aftab received his Ph.D. from the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India. 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. He has worked as Visiting Scientist at IPK, Gaterleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA. He is also a member of various scientific associations from India and abroad. He has published research articles in multiple peer-reviewed national and international journals and is the lead editor of the book Artemisia annua: Pharmacology and Biotechnology. His research interests include physiological, proteomic, and molecular studies on medicinal and aromatic plants.
Dr. Khalid Rehman Hakeem is a Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has completed his Ph.D. (Botany) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India in 2011. Dr. Hakeem has worked as Post Doctorate Fellow in 2012 and Fellow Researcher (Associate Prof.) from 2013-2016 at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia. His specialty is Plant Eco-Physiology, Molecular biology, Plant-Microbe-soil interactions, Medicinal plant research and Environmental Sciences and so far has edited and authored more than 25 books with Springer International, Academic Press (Elsevier) etc. He has also to his credit more than 110 research publications in peer reviewed international journals, including 40 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. Dr Hakeem is the recipient of many national and international awards and fellowships.
