Halophytes and Climate Change : Adaptive Mechanisms and Potential Uses

Dr. Mirza Hasanuzzaman is a Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his Ph.D. from the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University, Japan. Later, he completed his postdoctoral research in the Center of Molecular Biosciences, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan with a 'Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)' postdoctoral fellowship. Subsequently, he became an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the University of Tasmania with an Australian Government's Endeavour Research Fellowship. Prof. Hasanuzzaman has over 200 publications on the Web of Science. He has edited 15 books and written over 30 book chapters on important aspects of plant physiology, plant stress responses, and environmental problems in relation to plant species. His publications are cited over 12000 times as per Scopus® with an h-index of 58 (as of July 2022) and named as named a Highly Cited Researcher 2021 by Clarivate. He is an Editor and a reviewer for more than 100 ISI-indexed peer-reviewed international journals and is the recipient of 'Publons Peer Review Award 2017, 2018, and 2019'. He received the World Academy of Science (TWAS) Young Scientist Award 2014, UGC Gold Medal in 2018, GNOBB Award 2021, and several other awards and fellowships for his contribution to research. He is a fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of Biology.

S Shabala is a Professor in Plant Physiology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. His major expertise is in stress physiology and membrane transport in plant, bacteria and animal systems. His 26 years of expertise in the field has resulted in ca 120 publications in international peer reviewed journals and over 2,300 citations and h-index of 28. He is routinely reviewing papers for over 50 international journals and acts as a reviewer for major funding bodies in Australia, USA, UK, and a large number of European countries. He is also an Editor/Editorial Board member on four international plant science journals. The Stress Physiology laboratory at the University of Tasmania he currently leads includes 15 members and collaborates with over 40 laboratories in 17 countries. Over the last 10 years he has hosted over 30 international visitors using the unique facilities for non-invasive microelectrode ion flux measurements; the so called MIFE technique he had pioneered in stress physiology research.

Dr. Masayuki Fujita is Professor in the Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, and M.Agr. and Ph.D. in plant biochemistry from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. His research interests include physiological, biochemical, and molecular biological responses based on secondary metabolism in plants under various abiotic and biotic stresses; phytoalexin, cytochrome P450, glutathione S-transferase, and phytochelatin; and redox reaction and antioxidants. In the last decade, his works were focused on oxidative stress and antioxidant defense in plants under environmental stress. His group investigates the role of different exogenous protectants in enhancing antioxidant defense and methylglyoxal detoxification systems in plants. He has supervised 4 M.S. students and 13 PhD students as the main supervisor. He has about 150 publications in journal and books and has edited 10 books.