Dr. M. Naeem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Dr. Naeem received the degrees of BSc, MSc and PhD in Botany from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He is recipient of Research Associateship and Young Scientist Award from the CSIR, New Delhi, State Government of Uttar Pradesh, India, respectively. Also, he has received Postdoctoral fellowship of DST, SERB, New Delhi and UPCST, India. He is member of Indian Society for Plant Physiology, Indian Botanical Society, Society for Medicinal Plant & Natural Product, Germany, American Society for Plant Biologists, USA etc. His research focuses on escalating the production of MAPs and their active principles using a novel and safe technique involving radiation-processed polysaccharides as well as the application of PGRs under normal and stressed conditions.Dr. Tariq Aftab received his Ph.D. in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India, and is currently an Assistant Professor there. 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. Dr. Aftab also worked as Visiting Scientist at Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA. He has edited 11 books with with international publishers, including Elsevier Inc., Springer Nature and CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), co-authored several book chapters, and published over 60 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. M. Masroor A. Khan is affiliated with the Department of Botany, AMU, Aligarh, India. After completing his PhD, he joined Ohio State University, USA as a Postdoc. Before he joined as Assistant Professor in this University, he worked as Pool Scientist and Research Associate (CSIR, New Delhi). Prof. Khan has published 8 books and more than 200 research papers in reputed journals and books on the subject concerned. He has guided 14 PhD, 2 M Phil and 33 MSc students to date. Prof. Khan is working to promote the productivity and active ingredients of medicinal and aromatic plants using different strategies, such as application of mineral nutrition, PGRs and nanoparticles. Prof. Khan has contributed greatly towards the establishment of Radiation-Processed Polysaccharides (RPPs) as plant growth promoters
