Principles and Practices of OMICS and Genome Editing for Crop Improvement (PDF)

editor for Frontiers in Plant Sciences, review editor for Frontiers in Genetics and editing a special issue with Plants-MDPI focusing, Novel Plant Breeding Approaches for Achieving Zero Hunger. Currently, his lab group is working to identify genetic factors controlling drought stress tolerance in exotic and local landraces of rice.




Dr. Shah Fahad is a Professor in the Hainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresource, College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, China. He obtained his PhD in Agronomy from Huazhong Agriculture University, China, in 2015. After doing his postdoctoral research in Agronomy at the Huazhong Agriculture University (2015-17), he accepted the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Haripur. He has published over 340 peer-reviewed papers (Impact factor 1150.18) with more than 308 research and 32 review articles, on important aspects of climate change, plant physiology and breeding, plant nutrition, plant stress responses and tolerance mechanisms, and exogenous chemical priming-induced abiotic stress tolerance. He has also contributed 58 book chapters to various book editions published by Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, and Elsevier. He has edited eighteen book volumes, including this one, published by CRC press, Springer, and Intech Open. He won Young Rice International Scientist award, Distinguish scholar award and Top young investigator award in 2014, 2015 and 2019 respectively. He won 15 projects from international and national donor agencies. Dr. Shah Fahad name figured twice among the top two percent scientists in a global list compiled by the Stanford University, USA as well as included in the Clarivate's 2021 list of Highly Cited Researchers in the field of Plant and Agriculture sciences. He has worked and is presently continuing on a wide range of topics, including climate change, greenhouse emission gasses, abiotic stresses tolerance, roles of phytohormones and their interactions in abiotic stress responses, heavy metals, regulation of nutrient transport processes.