Table Of ContentENDOPHYTE BIOLOGY
Recent Findings from the Kashmir Himalayas
ENDOPHYTE BIOLOGY
Recent Findings from the Kashmir Himalayas
Edited by
Zahoor Ahmed Wani, PhD
Masroor Qadri, PhD
Palak Arora, PhD
Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD
First edition published 2023
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Title: Endophyte biology : recent findings from the Kashmir Himalayas / edited by Zahoor Ahmed Wani, PhD,
Masroor Qadri, PhD, Palak Arora, PhD, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD.
Names: Wani, Zahoor Ahmed, editor. | Qadri, Masroor, editor. | Arora, Palak, editor. | Hakeem, Khalid Rehman, editor.
Description: First edition. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20220200343 | Canadiana (ebook) 20220200378 | ISBN 9781774638323 (hardcover) |
ISBN 9781774638330 (softcover) | ISBN 9781003277262 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Endophytes—India—Jammu and Kashmir.
Classification: LCC QR351 .E53 2023 | DDC 579/.17095463—dc23
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ISBN: 978-1-77463-832-3 (hbk)
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This book is dedicated to Sheikh ul Alam,
Sheikh Noor Ud din Noorani (Nund Reshi).
Nund Reshi was the spiritual leader of Kashmir.
His famous quote about the nature and food security is
“An poshi teli yeli wan poshi”
(Food will suffice only till the forests survive).
About the Editors
Zahoor Ahmed Wani, PhD
Zahoor Ahmed Wani, PhD, is working as Assistant
Professor in the Department of Botany at Govern
ment Degree College Kishtwar, Jammu & Kashmir,
India. His research specialization is in plant microbe
interactions with special focus on understanding the
basic intricacies of plant-endophyte associations and
the ways to modulate them for desired purposes. His
work has been published in peer-reviewed quality
journals, including Nature-Scientific Reports, Fungal Biology, and RSC
Advances. He has a book and a book chapter to his credit as well. Dr. Wani is
associated with many NGOs as an advisor/technical expert and is working on
various issues related to education, environment, and social transformation
in rural areas of J&K state, India. Dr. Wani qualified National Eligibility Test
securing 47th rank and was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship by the
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research to pursue his research career
and was awarded a PhD degree in 2017 by the Academy of Scientific and
Innovative Research (AcSIR), India.
Masroor Qadri, PhD
Masroor Qadri, PhD, is working as a Postdoctoral
Research Associate in the Entomology and Nema
tology Department, University of Florida, USA. Her
research work was on bioprospecting endophytic
fungi for bioactive metabolites, characterizing biosyn
thetic pathway genes and their epigenetic modulation
for increased metabolite production in microbes. Dr.
Qadri has published her research work in reputed
journals and has a book chapter to her credit as well. She was awarded her
doctorate in 2015 by Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India. After
completing her doctorate, she joined University of Brasilia, Brazil as a Post
doctoral Research Associate in 2015 and worked there for one year before
shifting to USA.
viii About the Editors
Palak Arora, PhD
Palak Arora, PhD, joined CSIR-Indian Institute of
Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM), Jammu, as a
Junior Research Fellow and was awarded a PhD
Degree in 2019 by the Academy of Scientific and
Innovative Research (AcSIR), India. She completed
her BTech (Biotechnology) at SMVD University
in 2013, where she secured first position and was
awarded an INSPIRE Fellowship by the Department
of Biotechnology, Government of India, to pursue her research career. Dr.
Palak worked on culturable endophytes of Glycyrrhiza glabra and studied
their bioactive potential and functional characterization. Dr. Palak also
worked on endohyphal bacterial associations. She has published her research
work in leading journals and has a book chapter to her credit. She has received
many awards including the INSPIRE award during her short research career.
Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD
Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD, is Professor at King
Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After
completing his doctorate (botany; specialization in
plant eco-physiology and molecular biology) from
Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, he worked as a
lecturer at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India.
At Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, he
was a Postdoctorate Fellow and Fellow Researcher
(Associate Professor) for several years. Dr. Hakeem has more than 10 years
of teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology
and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil
interactions, as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of
several fellowships at both national and international levels. He has served
as a visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he
is involved with a number of international research projects with different
government organizations. To date, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited
more than 35 books with international publishers. He also has to his credit
more than 80 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals
and 55 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. At
present, Dr. Hakeem serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for
several high-impact international scientific journals. He is included in the
About the Editors ix
advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also a fellow
of the Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, member
of the World Academy of Sciences, member of the International Society for
Development and Sustainability, Japan, and member of the Asian Federation
of Biotechnology, Korea.
