Hormones and Heavy Metals (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789819696215)

Dr. Anket Sharma is currently working as a Visiting Scientist at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA. Additionally, Dr. Sharma is also working as an Adjunct Professor at Zhejiang A&F University, China. Prior to that, he worked as a postdoctoral scientist at Zhejiang A&F University, China. He did his PhD in Plant Science from Guru Nanak Dev University, India. He also got a DST-INSPIRE fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. His research interests are to study plant hormone-mediated regulation of plant physiology under abiotic stress conditions. He has authored over 100 publications in internationally reputed journals. Dr. Sharma has been listed in the "Highly Cited Researchers 2022" by Clarivate Analytics.

Dr. Devendra Kumar Chauhan is working as a professor and former head of the Department of Botany, University of Allahabad. Dr. Chauhan has authored 250 scientific publications. His research interest is the role of Nutrients including Silicon, Zinc etc. in management of abiotic stress of plants. He is also working as the editor and reviewer of several reputed international journals and has published more than 10 international books.

Dr. Durgesh Kumar Tripathi is currently working as an Associate Professor and Joint Coordinator (R&D) at Amity Institute of Organic Agriculture, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India. Dr. Tripathi has received his D.Phil. in Science from University of Allahabad, India. During this period, Dr. Tripathi worked extensively on Silicon analysis, crop stress physiology, agro-nanotehnology and molecular stress biology. His research interests encompass stress tolerance mechanisms in plants. Presently, he is working with nutrient and nano nutrient regulation in plants under various stresses. He is also working on Nitric oxide and hormonal crosstalk against abiotic stress in plants. He has published more than 200 research papers and review articles in internationally reputed journals and several book chapters. He has also edited fifteen books with international publishers. He is an associate editor in very high impact journals and the Chief Editor of Plant Nanobiology. Dr. Tripathi is recognized as top 2% researcher by Stanford University, USA from 2019-2024 and Top 1% highly cited researchers all over the globe by Clarivate web of Science, USA.