Plant Hormones and Climate Change

1. Role of phytohormones in plant responses to acid rain.- 2. The complex interaction between elevated CO2 and hormones on the control of plant growth.- 3. Role of plant hormones in plant response to elevated CO2 concentrations - above- and below-ground interactions.- 4. The intriguous roles of phytohormones in plant response to ozone interacting with other major climate-change stressors.- 5. Role of phytohormones in plant responses to acid rain.- 6. The role of plant hormones in fruit response to photo-oxidative and heat stress.- 7. Phytochrome and hormone signaling crosstalk in response to abiotic stresses in plants.- 8. Phytohormone-mediated regulation of heat stress response in plants.- 9. Phytohormones and cold stress tolerance.- 10. Drought stress: involvement of plant hormones in perception, signaling and response.- 11. Involvement of phytohormones in flooding stress tolerance in plants.- 12. Roles of long-distance signals in nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur uptake and sensing in plants.- 13. Phytohormone involvement in plant responses to soil acidity.- 14. Plant response to toxic metals: emerging sources, phytohormone role and tolerance strategies.

Dr. Golam Jalal Ahammed is an Associate Professor at the Department of Horticulture, College of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China. He obtained his B.Sc. in Agriculture in 2004 and M.S. in Horticulture in 2006 from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Dr. Ahammed received a Ph.D. in Olericulture with a major focus on Plant Stress Physiology and Hormonal Regulation in 2012 from Zhejiang University, China. Afterward, he completed two consecutive postdoctoral programs at the Institute of Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology and the Institute of Crop Science of Zhejiang University. His major research interests include plant stress physiology, phytohormones, climate change effects on plants, and environmental pollution. Dr. Ahammed authored over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is a Senior Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports and an Associate Editor of AoB Plants, BMC Plant Biology, and Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. Dr. Ahammed was awarded several research grants by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.

Dr. Jingquan Yu is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a Professor of Horticulture at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and the Director of the Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plants Growth, Development, and Quality Improvement, Agricultural Ministry of China. He completed his M.Sc. in Agrochemistry in 1991 from Shimane University, Japan, and Ph.D. in Bio-resource Chemistry in 1994 from Tottori University, Japan. Afterward, he worked as a postdoc scientist at Shimane University. In 1995, he returned to China and joined Zhejiang University. His fields of specialization include plant hormones, systemic signaling, plant growth regulation, allelopathy, and monocropping obstacle. Prof. Yu is one of the leading scientists