Sustainable Science and Technologies for Agriculture and Environment

Dr. M. Iqbal R. Khan currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Botany, and Deputy Director of The Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (CESD), Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. Also, an Adjunct Professor at the Korea University, Seoul, South Korea and Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. Exposure of agricultural crops to environmental stress–induced adversities pose a serious threat to global food and nutritional security. Dr. Khan research has primarily focused on major staple crops, particularly wheat, with the objective of reducing their susceptibility to environmental stress under projected future climatic pressures and contributing toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Dr. Khan has published more than 100 articles, edited 11 Books, and authored 14 Book Chapters in reputed Publishers. He has an h-index of 57 and i10-index of 98, with more than 14600 citations to his credit as per Google Scholar as per bibliometric data in Jan 2026. He has been recognized as Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in Animal and Plant Science category and is in the list of Top 2% Scientists (Elsevier) of the World (2021-2025). Dr. Khan has been awarded with The National Academy of Sciences (NASI) - Membership in Plant and Agricultural Sciences (2024), and recipient of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Young Associates (2024). Further, his work has attracted prestigious awards, including R.H. Dastur Gold Medal Award-ISPP (2023), Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award-NASI (2021), and Young Scientist Award-ISPP (2018). He is on the Editorial Board of many renowned journals as the Section Editor in Plant and Soil, Associate Editor in Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 3-Biotech, and Plant Physiology Reports. Also served as Guest Editor in the Agriculture, Frontiers in Plant Science, Sustainability and Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.Professor M. Afshar Alam is presently working as Vice-Chancellor and Professor and Dean of School of Engineering Sciences and Technology at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. His research areas include Software Re-engineering, Data Mining, Bio-Informatics, Fuzzy databases, and Sustainable Development. He has authored 10 books, supervised more than 30 Doctoral students and more than 200 Post Graduate research projects and has more than 160 research papers in reputed journals to his credit. He is conferred with many prestigious awards like Bharat Samaj Ratna Award, AMP Award for Excellence in Education, Cooperative Citizen Award, World Environment Day Award, and Spardha Shree Award. He is also the member of various government bodies at both National and International level including University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Department of Science & Technology (DST).Dr. Malik Zainul Abdin is Professor of Biotechnology in Jamia Hamdard’s School of Chemical and Life Sciences, India. He obtained his B.S. from Aligarh Muslim University and his Ph.D. from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. Professor Abdin specializes in plant biotechnology, plant-derived therapeutics, and phytopharmaceutical innovation. His work spans metabolic engineering, molecular genetics, and bioactive compound stabilization. He brings more than three decades of research and teaching experience to the project, and has edited six prior volumes, including Elsevier’s Transgenic Technology Based Value Addition in Plant Biotechnology.

• 1. Carbon Footprints in Agriculture2. Soil Microbial Resources in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Through Improving Soil Health and Food Security3. Impact assessment of nanoparticles on the environment4. Harnessing nanomaterials for soil remediation and agriculture sustainability5. Nanoparticles as modulators of plant stress signalling 6. Crop improvement strategies for stress resilience7. Driving sustainability in agriculture: An approach via plant growth promoting rhizobacteria8. Striking out the role of biofortification in staple crops as a conduit to food security9. Air quality index prediction model using machine learning10. Unlocking the calcium potential against various abiotic stresses in wheat11. Impact of climate change on secondary metabolites content and therapeutic efficacy of medicinal plants12. Recent advanced multi-omics approaches for stress resilience in crop plants13. Abiotic stress tolerance in Pigeonpea: Mechanisms, traits, and breeding Strategies14. Proline metabolism as a regulatory hub in plant abiotic stress tolerance