Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 53

Preface.- 1. Role of Quantum Dots, Polymeric NPs and Dendrimers in Emphasizing Crops Tolerate Biotic and Abiotic Stresses (Khaled F.M. Salem, Maysoun M. Saleh, Farrag F.B. Abu-Ellail, Heba S. Abbas and Amira S. Mahmoud).- 2. Climate Change Mitigation and Nanotechnology: An Overview (Asha Kumari, Mahendar Sing Bhinda, Binny Sharma, and Manoj Parihar).- 3. Nanoparticles: As a New Promising Tool to Increase Plant Immunity (Radwan Khalil, Nesma ElSayed, and Hanan A. Hashem).- 4. Exploring Nanotechnology to Reduce Stress: Mechanism of Nanomaterial-Mediated Alleviation (Sidra tul Muntha, Mohammad Faizan, Saba Mehreen, and Shareen).- 5. Alleviation Mechanism of Drought Stress in plants by Metal Nanoparticles - A Perspective Analysis (Iqra Naseer, Sumera Javad, Ajit Singh, Saba Maqsood, Sumera Iqbal, and Khajista Jabeen).- 6. Role of Various Nanoparticles in Countering Heavy Metal, Salt, and Drought Stress in Plants (Suliman Mohammed Alghanem, Haifa AbdulazizS. Alhaithloul, Magdi T. Abdelhamid, and Mona H. Soliman).- 7. Mode of Action and Signaling of Nanoparticles to Alleviate Stress in Crop Plants (Nazish and Babli).- 8. Impact of Nanoparticles and Nanoparticle-Coated Biomolecules to Ameliorate Salinity Stress in Plants with Special Reference to Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Mechanism of Action (Akankhya Guru, Soumya Kumar Sahoo, Payel Saha, and Padmanabh Dwivedi).- 9. Effect of Carbon Nanotubes on Stress Response in Plants: An Overview (Mohammad Faizan, Anjuman Hussain, Anayat Rasool Mir, Vishnu D. Rajput, Tatiana Minkina, and Shamsul Hayat).- 10. Responses of Crop Plants under Nanoparticles Supply in Alleviating Biotic and Abiotic Stresses (Sameer H. Qari, Awatif M. Abdulmajeed, Taghreed S. Alnusaire, and Mona H. Soliman).- 11. Nanotechnological Approaches for Efficient Delivery of Plant Ingredients (Maysoun M. Saleh, Amira S. Mahmoud, Heba S. Abbas, Farrag F.B. Abu-Ellail, Muddukrishnaiah Kotakonda, and

Dr. Mohammad Faizan is Postdoctoral Scientist/Assistant Teacher, in the Department of Silviculture, College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China. In 2014, he obtained his M.Sc. degree in Botany at Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, India, and his Ph.D. in 2018 at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. The findings of his work have revealed that exogenous application of brassinosteroids and nanoparticles improved the yield and quality of plants under natural as well as stressful conditions. He has written one book published by Springer addressing nanotechnology for plant growth and development and has authored or co-authored six book chapters. Findings of his research works have been published in the Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Nitric Oxide, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, Current Protein & Peptide Science, Photosynthetica, South African Journal of Botany, IET Nanotechnology, Russian Journalof Plant Physiology, Biocell and many more with more than 540 google scholar citation and 10 h-index. He is also member of the editorial board of the Journal of Plant Sciences and is also member of various societies.
Dr. Shamsul Hayat is Professor, in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He received his Ph.D. degree in Botany from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Before joining the Department as faculty, he has worked as Research Associate and Young Scientist in the same Department. He has also worked as Associate Professor in King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as a BOYSCAST Fellow at National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan and as visiting scientist through INSA-Bilateral exchange programme at Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Institute of Biology, Department of Plant Biochemistry and Toxicology, University of Bialystok, Poland. The major area of research includes plant hormone,nanoscience and abiotic