Salicylic Acid - A Versatile Plant Growth Regulator

Dr. Shamsul Hayat is Professor, in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He received his Ph.D. degree in Botany from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Before joining the Department as faculty, he has worked as Research Associate and Young Scientist in the same Department. He has also worked as Associate Professor in King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as a BOYSCAST Fellow at National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan and as visiting scientist through INSA-Bilateral exchange programme at Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Institute of Biology, Department of Plant Biochemistry and Toxicology, University of Bialystok, Poland. The major area of research includes plant hormone, nanoscience and abiotic stress in plants. It has been reported from his group that phytohormone such as brassinosteroids and salicylic acid plays an important role in increasing the photosynthetic efficiency of the plant and regulate the antioxidant system even under abiotic stress. He is also studying the protein profiling in hormone-treated plants under abiotic stress. Dr. Hayat has been awarded Prof. Hira Lal Chakravorty Award by Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata, India, Associate of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi, India, BOYSCAST fellow by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi and young scientist by Association of the Advancement of Science, Aligarh, India. Dr. P.S. Khankhoje gold medal has also been awarded to him by Dr. Punjab Rao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola. He has been the Principal Investigator of the various projects sanctioned by different agencies and guided seven students for the award of Ph.D. degree and two students for the award of M.Phil degree besides a number of M.Sc. students. Dr. Hayat has published more than one hundred sixty research papers in leading journal of the world such as Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Environmental & Experimental Botany, Plant Physiology & Biochemistry, Environmental Pollution, Nitric Oxide, Protoplasma, Plant Signalling & Behaviour, Photosynthetica, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum with high impact factor and also published twelve books by Kluwer Academic, Springer, Wiley-VCH, Science Publisher and Narosa Publishing House. Besides this twenty five book chapters has also been published. Dr. Hayat has presented his work at several national and international conferences in Japan, Brazil, Spain, China, Poland and Saudia Arabia. He is a regular reviewer and on the panel of editorial boards of National and International journals, Dr. Hayat is also the member of important National and International scientific societies. Recently he has been appointed as Indian representative in Asia Association of Plant Scientist. Dr. Husna Siddiqui is working in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. She received her B.Sc. degree from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, India whereas M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Botany from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Her thrust area of research includes the study of plant physiology, nanosciences and plant growth regulator-mediated abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants. She has been awarded Excellence Award in Science by Indian Women Scientist Association, Mumbai, India and also received fellowship under DBT-Builder Programme, by AMU, Aligarh. She has published more than 35 research articles in the national as well as international journals of repute with high impact factor such as such as Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Environmental & Experimental Botany, Plant Physiology & Biochemistry, Nitric Oxide, Protoplasma, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, South African Journal of Botany, Carbohydrate Research, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, and Carbohydrate Polymers.Dr. Christos A. Damalas currently serves as an Associate Professor of Agronomy in the Depart

Chapter 1 Plant elicitation with salicylic acid as a tool for enhance bioactive compounds.- Chapter 2 Salicylic acid increases root size that favours the absorption and accumulation of macro and micronutrients that contribute to biomass production.- Chapter 3 The role of salicylic acid in plant reproductive development.- Chapter 4 The role of salicylic acid in pre- and post-harvest attributes in horticulture.- Chapter 5 Foliar applications of salicylic acid for improving crop tolerance to drought stress: a review.- Chapter 6 Salicylic acid and drought stress response: physiological to genomics principle.- Chapter 7 Interplay between environmental signals and endogenous salicylic acid.- Chapter 8 The role of salicylic acid in crops to tolerate abiotic stresses.- Chapter 9 Interplay between salicylates and jasmonates under stress.- Chapter 10 Increasing evidence on the relationship between salicylic acid and polyamines in plants.- Chapter 11 Salicylic acid and melatonin crosstalk in plants.- Chapter 12 A dynamic crosstalk between GSH and salicylic acid to mitigate environmental stress.- Chapter 13 Crosstalk between salicylic acid signalling and betalains biosynthesis.- Chapter 14 Regulation of SA-mediated signal transduction in plant immune system.- Chapter 15 The role of phytohormones including salicylic acid in potato tuber development.- Chapter 16 Potato virus elimination as short and long-term effect of salicylic acid is mediated by oxidative stress and induction of tolerance to thermotherapy or cryotherapy.- Chapter 17 The role of salicylic acid in mitigation of biotic stress.- Chapter 18 The role of salicylic acid in the immune system of plants.