Strigolactone in Plants

Dr Muhammad Waseem is an Associate Professor at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan, China. He also serves as Assistant Professor of Botany at the Department of Botany, University of Narowal, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in plant molecular biology from Chongqing University, PR China. His research interests include transcriptional regulation of flowering time regulation, fruit ripening and development, and abiotic stresses such as salinity and drought. In addition, he has hands-on experience in next-generation sequencing data analysis, transcriptomics, and data visualization.

Professor Pingwu Liu is based at the College of Forestry and Tropical Agriculture in Hainan University, Haiku, China.

Dr Channa S. Prakash is Professor of crop genetics & biotechnology, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tuskegee University, USA where he has served on faculty since 1989. His research expertise is on genetic improvement research on food crops of importance to developing countries. Dr Prakash has been a global leader in enhancing the societal awareness of crop and food biotechnology issues around the world for nearly three decades. He is a leading proponent of science-based agricultural development, especially in the use of molecular techniques including genetically modified crops and genome editing. He provides technical, societal and ethical perspectives on the issue through his lectures and writings and on social media.

Dr Sajid Fiaz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, The University of Haripur, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in crop genetics and breeding from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2019. Dr Fiaz's research interests include marker-assisted selection for agronomic traits, mutation breeding for biotic and abiotic stress resistance, QTL mapping, and genome editing for yield and quality traits in cereals.