Role of Potassium in Abiotic Stress

Dr. Noushina Iqbal did her Masters and Ph.D from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and then she worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi (UGC-DS Kothari PDF) and recently she is doing another PDF (SERB-DST NPDF) from Jamia Hamdard as Principal Investigator. During her Ph.D she received the UGC-BSR Fellowship for meritorious student and worked on an UP-CST funded research project. She also got the prestigious Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by CSIR. She has more than 30 peer reviewed international publications and has attended conferences and seminars. She has authored 1 book and edited 3 books. Her research papers have lots of citation and have high impact factor. She is also life member of Indian Society for Plant Physiology. Dr. Noushina is also review editor of Frontier in Plants science section Crop and Product Physiology. Her research interest focuses on but not limited to the role of various phytohormones and nutrients in combating abiotic stress tolerance.  Prof. Shahid Umar is Prof. and Head Department of Botany, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. He did his M.phil and Ph.D from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has 30 years of teaching experience ande has successfully guided 40+ M.Sc. dissertation and supervised 16 thesis and 3 more under progress. He has received the IPI-FAI International Award (2003) instituted by International Potash Institute (IPI) (Basel, Switzerland) and Fertilizer Association of India for the significant contribution towards potassium nutrition management for improvement of crop yield and quality. Felicitation from for fruitful cooperation with IPI during International Symposium on balanced fertilization for sustainable crop productivity (2006) and again in 2009 felicitation from IPI for fruitful cooperation with IPI during International Symposium on balanced fertilization for sustainable crop productivity, (OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Orissa). He has successfully completed 5 research projects as Principal Investigator mainly involving potassium and has published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed international journals. He has edited 8 books and has membership of various bodies.

Chapter 1. Role of Potassium in Plant Photosynthesis, Transport, Growth and Yield.- Chapter 2. Potassium Role in Plants Response to Abiotic Stresses. Chapter 3. Molecular Approaches to Potassium Uptake and Cellular Homeostasis in Plants under Abiotic Stress.- Chapter 4. Soil Potassium Availability and Role of Microorganisms in Influencing Potassium Availability to Plants.- Chapter 5. Crosstalk of Potassium and Phytohormones under Abiotic Stress.- Chapter 6. Potassium (K+) Regulation by Phytohormones under Abiotic Stress.-  Chapter 7. Role of Potassium in Drought Adaptation: Insights into Physiological and Biochemical Characteristics of Plants.- Chapter 8. Role of Potassium in Heavy Metal Stress.- Chapter 9. Salt Stress Alleviation Strategies to Maintain K+ Homeostasis in Plants.- Chapter 10. Potassium  ion Homeostasis, Signaling and Changes in Transcriptomes and Metabolomes Enduring Salinity Stress.- Chapter 11. Potassium: A Potent Modulator of Plant Responses under Changing Environment.- Chapter 12. An Overview of Potassium in Abiotic Stress: Emphasis on Potassium Transporters and Molecular Mechanism.- Chapter 13. Nitric Oxide Synthesis Affects Potassium and Nitrogen Homeostasis in Plants for Salt Tolerance.