Climate Change and Food Security with Emphasis on Wheat

Dr. Munir Ozturk (Ph.D) holds Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the Ege University, Turkiye. He is currently acting as the “Vice President of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences”and is also Fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Science. Dr. Ozturk has been honored as the “Foreign Fellow Pakistan Academy of Science”. He has served at the Ege University-Turkiye for more than 50 years in different positions, has been Founder Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies, Ege University, and Chairman of the Botany Department and Director of the Botanical Garden. Sideritis ozturkii and Verbascum ozturkii are 2 newly recorded endemic plant species from Turkiye in his name. His fields of scientific interest are; pollution & biomonitoring; biosaline agriculture; plant ecophysiology, medicinal and aromatic plants conservation. Dr. Ozturk has published almost 60 books with internationally known publishers including Springer, Elsevier,Taylor & Francis, Wiley and few others. His biodata shows more than 90 book chapters and 200 papers in international journals; 120 with impact factor. He has also presented 125 papers at the International Meetings and 85 at the National Meetings. Dr. Munir has served as a guest editor for more than 13 journals; holds more than 20 Memberships of “Institutions and Professional Bodies”; has been recognized by more than 12 “National and International Bodies”; has received fellowships from the globally recognized Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, and the National Science Foundation of the USA. He has also worked as consultant fellow at the Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia; and as Distinguished Visiting Scientist at International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences, ICCBS-TWAS, Karachi University, Pakistan. Dr. Alvina Gul is a Tenured Associate Professor at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. She previously worked for Cornell University in New York, USA; the USDA Genotyping and Sequencing Laboratory at Kansas State University; and the Plant Breeding Institute at the University of Sydney, Australia. The primary focus of her research career has been on integrating new allelic variation for improved wheat crop production and yield maximization in order to enhance food security. Dr. Gul has published more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and 140 book chapters, as well as one book with Elsevier.

• 1. Better Farming Practices to Combating Climate Change2. Ensuring Sustainable Food Security: Exploiting alien genetic diversity in wheat breeding for adaptation to emerging Stresses3. Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Wheat Production in Turkey and Various Adaptation Strategies4. Cellular Mechanism of Salinity Tolerance in Wheat5. Genes Controlling Salinity Tolerance in Wheat6. Role of Osmoprotectants in Salinity Tolerance in Wheat7. Salt Responsive Transcription Factors in Wheat8. Molecular Mechanism of Drought Tolerance in Wheat9. Cellular Mechanism of Drought Tolerance in Wheat10. Drought Responsive ESTs in Wheat11. Role of Transcription Factors in Drought Mediating Pathways in Wheat12. LEA Proteins and Drought Stress in Wheat13. Role of Osmoprotectants in Drought Tolerace in Wheat14. Role of Spot Blotch Resistance in Global Food Security15. Karnal Bunt (Tilletia Indica) in Wheat16. Wheat-Thinopyrum Intermedium Introgression Lines Enhancing Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus (WSMV) Resistance17. Climate Chnage Leading to Post Harvest Losses in Breadwheat18. Investigation of the Effects of Environmental Stresses on the Development and Yield of Wheat Seedlings with Physiological, Biochemical Parameters and Some Gene Expressions19. Potentially Toxic Trace Elements in Wheat and their Effects on the Plant Development and Essential Nutrients20. Transfer of the Wheat Heritage of Antolia to Future Generations21. Landraces: Widening the narrow gene pool of wheat22. Next Generation Sequencing in Bread Wheat23. Genomic Selection in Wheat24. Role of Gene Editing in Wheat Improvement25. The Economics of Climate Change and Food Insecurity