Journal of Plant Sciences and Crop Protection

Prof. Dr. Alireza Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Full Distinguished Professor and Academic Tenure of Chemistry and also Enrico Fermi Distinguished Chair in Molecular Spectroscopy at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management, Oncology, Human Cancer Tissues and Synchrotron Radiation from Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and also in Nanochemistry and Modern Molecular Electronic–Structure Computations Theory from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. His research interests include Biophysical Chemistry, Biomolecular and Biomedical Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Modern Electronic Structure Computations, Theoretical Chemistry, Mathematical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modelling, Ab initio & Density Functional Methods, Molecular Structure, Biochemistry, Molecular Simulation, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Oncology, Synchrotron Radiation, Synchrocyclotron Radiation, LASER, Anti–Cancer Nano Drugs, Nano Drugs Delivery, ATR–FTIR Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Intelligent Molecules, Molecular Dynamics, Biosensors, Biomarkers, Molecular Diagnostics, Numerical Chemistry, Nucleic Acids, DNA/RNA Monitoring, DNA/RNA Hypermethylation & Hypomethylation, Human Cancer Tissues, Human Cancer Cells, Tumors, Cancer Tissues, Cancer Cells, etc. He has participated at more than six hundred reputed international conferences, seminars, congresses, symposiums and forums around the world as yet. Also, he possesses many published articles in Science Citation Index (SCI)/International Scientific Indexing (ISI), Medline/PubMed and Scopus Journals. It should be noted that he has visited many universities or scientific and academic research institutes in different countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Romania, Greece, Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, Turkey, France, Swiss, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, South Africa, Egypt, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines, South Korea, China, India, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, etc. as research fellow, sabbatical and volunteer researcher or visitor and so on heretofore. He has a history of several years of teaching for college students and various disciplines and trends in different universities. Moreover, he has been a senior advisor in various industry and factories. He is expert in many computer programs and programming languages. Hitherto, he has authored more than twenty books and book chapters in different fields of Chemistry. Syne, he has been awarded more than one thousand reputed international awards, prizes, scholarships and honors. Heretofore, he has multiple editorial duties in many reputed international and peer–reviewed journals, books and publishers. Hitherward, he is a member of more than six hundred reputed international academic–scientific–research institutes around the world. It should be noted that he is currently board member of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), the President of the American International Standards Institute (AISI), Irvine, California, USA and also Head of Cancer Research Institute (CRI) and Director of the BioSpectroscopy Core Research Laboratory (BCRL) at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA.

Research: Biophysical Chemistry Biomolecular Spectroscopy Biomedical Spectroscopy Quantum Chemistry Nanochemistry Modern Electronic Structure Computations Theoretical Chemistry Mathematical Chemistry Computational Chemistry Vibrational Spectroscopy Molecular Modelling Ab initio & Density Functional Methods Molecular Structure Biochemistry Molecular Simulation Pharmaceutical Chemistry Medicinal Chemistry Oncology Synchrotron Radiation Synchrocyclotron Radiation LASER Anti–Cancer Nano Drugs Nano Drugs Delivery ATR–FTIR Spectroscopy Raman Spectroscopy Intelligent Molecules Molecular Dynamics Biosensors Biomarkers Molecular Diagnostics Numerical Chemistry Nucleic Acids DNA/RNA Monitoring DNA/RNA Hypermethylation & Hypomethylation Human Cancer Tissues Human Cancer Cells Tumors Cancer Tissues Cancer Cells

Dr. Yengkhom Disco Singh is currently working as Assistant Professor in College of Horticulture and Forestry, Central Agricultural University, Pasighat Arunachal Pradesh, India. He has edited 6 books, authored/coauthored in 50 research papers published in national and internationally peered reviewed journal. He has been associated in organizing more than 30 training program. He is presently working in many researches funded projects as principal investigator in the field of agriculture and its allied sector. His research interest are Bioenergy, ethnomedicine, Nanotechnology, Post harvest treatment, bioremediation, bioactive molecules and anti-cancer.

Research: Bioenergy, ethnomedicine, Nanotechnology, Post harvest treatment, bioremediation, bioactive molecules and anti-cancer.

John A. St. Cyr, MD, Ph.D., a retired cardiovascular surgeon, received his B.A., M.S., M.D., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.  He completed his general surgical training at the University of Minnesota and completed his cardiovascular surgical fellowship training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, CO.  Dr. St.Cyr has extensive research credentials, is widely published, has received numerous research grants, has numerous patents in various fields of interest, and has presented at many medical/surgical conferences/meetings.  Dr. St. Cyr has consulted for many medical companies, such as a surgical/medical consultant for Medtronic, Inc. (Physiological Research Laboratories, a facility of Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN), a medical/surgical consultant for NAMSA, Inc (Minneapolis, MN), Chief Medical Officer for RCRI, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN), and ImmuMed, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN). Dr. St. Cyr is a member of numerous scientific research, medical, and surgical societies.  

Research: John A. St. Cyr research interests include  Myocardial metabolism Congenital and adult Cardiovascular Surgery Congenital Heart Disease Stem Cell Therapies Blood Viscosity Dialysis RBC storage

Dr. Vingiani Simona is currently working as an Associate Professor in Pedology at the University of Naples Federico II, Department of Agricultural Sciences. She is expert in the following techniques portable XRF analyzer, X-ray diffractometry (XRD), FT-IR spectroscopy, optical (OM) and electron (SEM/EDS) microscopy. She is reviewers at various international journals.

Dr. Panagiotis A. Eliopoulos was born in Kalamata, Greece on October 7th, 1974. He completed a B.Sc. at Agricultural University of Athens (1998) and an M.Sc. (2000) and Ph.D.(2003) in Agricultural Entomology at the same University. He is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Entomology at Department of Agriculture Technologists, Technological Educational Institute of Larissa in Greece. He teaches General Entomology & Zoology, Applied Entomology, Integrated Pest Management to undergraduate students and post-graduate students. His main scientific fields are insect biology ecology, mite and insect biodiversity, integrated management of insect pests, biological control of agricultural pests and automated methods for pest detection and monitoring. He has about 35 publications in peer-reviewed journals and more than 60 presentations at scientific conferences.

Dr. Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari currently works in Department of Civil Engineering, Isfahan, Islamic Azad University, University Blvd, Iran. He has teaching experience in 16 universities. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Canadian University Dubai, and American University in Dubai. On the research side, he started a research partnership in 2017 with Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an Editorial Board Member in more than 45 Journals and as reviewers in more than 30 Journals. Currently he is an Associate, Editor-in-Chief of IJREH. He has contributed to more than 250 publications in Journals, Books and Technical Reports. He has contributed to more than 194 publications in Journals, Books, or as Technical Reports.

Research: Groundwater Hydrology Irrigation and Drainage Engineering Sustainable Development and Environmental Assessment Climate, Integrated and Sustainable Water Resource Management Water System Engineering Water Resources Planning Artificial Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm

Dr. Mehdi Rahimi was born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1978. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran. His research interests are in the areas of plant breeding (classical breeding, biometry, abiotic stress, molecular breeding, genomics, gene expression).He received his Ph.D. in plant breeding at Tarbiat Modares University during 2008-2013 and M.Sc. in plant breeding at the University of Guilan during 2004-2007 and his B.Sc. in agronomy and plant breeding from Shiraz University.

Dr. Ehsan Borzouei is an Assistant Professor of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Department of Plant Protection at Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran. He authored a number of articles.

Dr. Mayra Anton Dib Saleh is a collaborator researcher at Animal Production Department of São Paulo State University, Brazil. She did her Post-doctor degree in Animal Nutrition. 

Research: Dr. Mayra Anton Dib Saleh areas of interests include Swine nutrition and production Analytical chemistry AAS: atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS and GFAAS); AES: atomic emission spectrometry; IRMS: isotope ratio mass spectrometry; UV-Vis: UV-Visible spectrophotometry; Techniques of sample preparation (US: ultrasound extraction; AM: acid mineralization; MM: microwave mineralization) Biochemistry Additives Non-ruminant nutrition Cereals’ production Green chemistry

Dr. Itsanun Wiwatanaratanabutr is an Assistant Professor at Department of Plant Production Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand. Prior to that, he worked as a lecturer Department of Parasitology and Entomology, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. He did his Ph.D. in Biology from Center of Excellence for Vectors and Vector-Borne Diseases and Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand. He was a Visiting Researcher Graduate School of Science and Engineering, University of Toyama, Japan. He received Research Fellowship 2017 from The Matsumae International Foundation, Japan.     

Dr. Mehmood Ali Noor works at Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecology, Ministry of Agriculture, China. He worked as a Researcher in the department of Agriculture extension and Rural Sociology at King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during January 2015 – March 2016. Dr. Mehmood Ali Noor's research interests include Agronomy, Crop Physiology, Stress Physiology, Seed Physiology, High crop efficiency, Nutrient Use Efficiency, Maize photosynthesis.

Dr. Aly Soliman Hamed Derbalah work as a professor of Pesticides Chemistry and Toxicology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafr-El-Shiekh University, Egypt. Dr. Aly got his Ph.D. in environmental chemistry of pesticides from Hiroshima University, Japan 2004. His research interest is analysis and remediation technologies of pesticide residues in different environmental matrixes and to find alternatives to pesticides to control agricultural pests. Dr. Aly published 70 papers most of them in international journals. Dr. Aly is editorial board and reviewer for 15 journals in the environmental chemistry and pest control. Dr. Aly published five scientific books in the field of pesticides remediation, analysis, and fate with respect to nanotechnology and its application. Dr. Aly received Egyptian Government Post doctor to National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba Japan from October 2013- to April 2014. Dr. Aly is principal investigator and research team member in several research projects (six projects) from Ministry Agriculture and Kaf El-Sheikh University in the field of environmental pollution by pesticide residues and its remediation technologies. Dr. Aly got many prizes such as the best Arab young scientist in sustainable management of water resources in the Arab Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia international prize in the environment 2012, incentive state prize in the Agricultural Sciences from Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research 2014 and incentive state prize in the environmental sciences from Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research 2015.

Professor Gamal Khalil is working as full professor of soil physics and water management, Soil and Agricultural Chemistry Dept., Faculty of Agriculture (Saba Basha), Alexandria University, Alexandria, EGYPT. He attended the Alexandria University and graduated in 1975 with B.Sc. degree in Soil and Water Sciences. He obtained M.Sc. degree in Soil Physics from Assiut University, Egypt in 1984. In 1991 he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Soil Physics from Alexandria University, Egypt. He joined the Department of Soils and Agricultural Chemistry, Alexandria University, Egypt as Lecturer in 1991, Assistant Professor in 1996 and full Professor in 2002. He is specialized in soil physics & water management and is involved in teaching both undergraduate and graduate level courses in soil physics program (Soil physics, Advanced soil physics, Applied soil physics, Environmental soil physics, Solid Waste Management, Soil Hydrology, Soil, water and plant relations and Transport processes in soil environment). His research interests are focused on fate and transport of pollutants in soil and groundwater, water and solute transport in soil, soil and wastewater remediation with organic wastes. He has authored and co-authored for about 107 scientific publications in refereed journals. He is Editor and Associate Editor of many international journals. He was a supervisor and co-supervisor of 33 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students and contributed for 15 scientific projects. He regularly reviews papers for scientific journals as well as research proposals and projects for governmental agencies.

Research: Professor Gamal Khalil  research interests are: Soil physical properties in relation to water management; Water in relation to soil and plant; Plant-water consumptive use; Irrigation scheduling in desert regions; Fertilization in relation to water-use efficiency; Soil conditioners; Organic farming; Fertigation management in desert regions; Evapotranspiration; Computer simulation of soil-water relations; Agro-meteorological studies of plant; Water conservation through soil surface treatments; Clay-jar subsurface irrigation system.

Dr. Hani Mansour is currently working as Associate Professor at Water Relations and Field Irrigation Dept., National Research Centre, Egypt.  He worked as teaching assistant in National Research center from 2012 to 2016 for courses like irrigation techniques, micro irrigation, Soil Properties monitoring, condition and tillage, Crop Roation ETC. He had completed Ph. D in Agricultural Engineering, Plant & Soil and Agricultural Engineering Department, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), and Ain Shams University. Egypt. Master’s in Agricultural Engineering Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He had done 3 postdoctoral missions as following: 1-Visiting Scientist at KU-Leuven University Belgium from November 2016 to February, 2017 under title of “AquaCrop Model for improving Field crops under salinity conditions” 2-postdoctoral, visiting scholar at Purdue University working on “Using Modelling and Simulation Programs in Irrigation Management under Localized and Developed Irrigation Systems” at ABE Department, Purdue University, USA period from July, 2014 to January, 2015. 3-Visiting scholar as postdoctoral program at SZIU, Godollo, Hungary, in April, 2014 for 6 months it was a complete scholarship from Hungarian Scholarship Board (HSB), starting from October, 1, 2013 to April, 6, 2014 the research program was under the title of “The Effects of Drought Conditions and Water Management on Moringa Oliveara Trees a Several Medication Purpose” at Agricultural and Environmental Faculty, SZIU, Godollo, Hungary. He got Postdoctoral Scholarship award from ABE, Faculty of Agriculture, Purdue University in 2015, he also achieved Research outputs and NRC Pioneer Award, NRC, Egypt in 2014. In my PhD dissertation and my published research papers I have used the modeling and simulation computer-programs many times for lab and experiments, data analysis, writing and turning in notes and essays. Dr. Hani Mansour has computer skills for communicating with one another and conducting library catalog research and web research. He published 41 articles, presented 3 oral presentations, 2 Posters, 1 Book chapter titled “Performance of Grapevines under Sustainable Irrigation Systems” and Published 3 Books. 

Research: Dr. Hani Mansour interests include:  models of the water management; water Productivity; drought tolerance; drought deficit under irrigation systems or under drought conditions.

Dr. T Theivasanthi is currently working as Assistant Professor in Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil, India. She has 15 years of teaching experience; published many research articles and books which has more than 150 citations. She is a member of many prestigious associations such as:  life member of Indian Science Congress Association and Magnetics Society of India; member of International Association of Advanced Materials. T Theivasanthi  achieved many awards/ honours/ recognitions including - Madurai Women Achievers Award - 2013, Motivational Award - 2015 and Women’s Day Award of St.Annes College; achieved World Record in LIMCA Book of Records-2015 for nanotechnology invention “World’s first superparamagnetic plants materials” – named “Santhi Particles”, World Record– 2016 for innovative products "The World’s lowest priced graphene" & "World’s Smallest Particles of Vegetables" and World Record– 2017 for the invention "The World’s Smallest Anti-Viral Plant Particles". Other innovative products- Superparamagnetic lead nanoparticles, semiconducting lead Nanoparticles, Low cost-mass production of graphene, agricultural nanofertilisers, vegetable powder for diabetes, plants materials for diabetes & psoriasis and nanoparticles for treatment of EBOLA, DENGUE, HIV & H1N1 virus infection. Govt. of India shows interests to develop her inventions for the benefits of public; since Dec-2014, she has delivered more than 120 Lectures over International / National scientific conferences, foreign countries and renowned institutes like National Institute of Technology, Anna University, Central University of all over India; she delivered Motivational Lectures for women, students and staff of institutes / Multi-national corporate companies (Cognizant Technologies); Artha Nyana Academy (Malaysia), Intelligent Society of Malaysia etc. NanoDigest, Economic Times and Telegraph have published news about her research; Thanthi TV, All India Radio, Minnal FM (Malaysia) and Bernama TV (Malaysia) have broadcasted her interviews. She is serving as an Editorial Board Member/ reviewer for some scientific journals.

Research: Dr. T Theivasanthi  research interest’s include silver, copper, lead, nanopowder, XRD, semiconductor, superparamagnetism, Electrolysis, graphene, bio-sensors, nano-biofertilizers, fertility, microbial fuel cells, nanocellulose, metal-polymer nanocomposites, solar cells, neutrino detection, satellite.

Dr. Faheem Ahmad is an Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology/Nematology, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, India. He worked as Assistant Professor in Applied Biotechnology Department, CAS-SUR, Ministry of Higher Education, Oman during 2015-2017.

Research: Dr. Faheem Ahmad research interests are in  Plant defence mechanisms, Pathogenicity mechanisms in plants, Disease control, Single living cell approach, Metabolomics of single cell, Water & Osmotic Potential measurement of soil, root, stem, leaves, fruits as well as Turgor Pressure measurement using Isopiestic Psychrometer, Plant-microbe interaction and their identification, Nematode & Bacterial protein isolation and their enrichment using analytical approach, Nanoparticles synthesis and their bio-functionality with organic moieties, Internal Ectectrode Pressure probe technique to isolate cell sap of single living cell and cell sap analysis to obtain the metabolites profiling, MALDI-TOF MS/MS, ESI-MS/MS, DNA Finger printing of Plants, GC-MS analysis of oil content of seeds, Single Drop Microbe Extraction Technique.

Dr. Claude Bakoumé, started writing scientific articles one year after the completion of Engineering in Agronomy. Back from an attachment with a Breeding Unit at Montpellier, He wrote more than 10 planting reports and protocols of progeny trials. He has attended two courses on the scientific writing in 1998 and 2011. From 2008 to date, he has benefited from the advice of a professional editor who is also the editor of all the papers he has contributed published by Journals or presented at different Conferences. He is the author or co-author of 25 articles in International Journals, 23 in Proceedings. He has contributed to two books, co-authored and co-edited one book, and authored a book chapter. He has closely assisting MSc candidates and Ph.D. candidates he has co-supervised in the writing of their dissertations and theses. He developed editorial skill because of reviewing articles in 19 International Journals. He is also Editorial Board Member and Academic Editor of International Journals. He has developed editorial skills and implemented editorial standards for both style and quality that make him fit for contributing considerably and significantly to your editorial team thrive. 

Research: Dr. Claude Bakoume research interests are in Agronomy, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Plant Breeding. 

Dr. Shubiao Wu is an Associate Professor at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. Prior he was Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Center of Biomass Engineering, China Agricultural University. China  

Research: Dr. Shubiao Wu's current research focuses on  Nutrients recovery of agricultural biowaste and effluents Treatment of strength wastewaters in intensified constructed wetlands

Dr. John Abraham is a Lecturer in Department of Conservation Biology and Entomology at University of Cape Coast, Ghana. 

Research: Dr. John Abraham's research areas include Insect-plant interactions in agricultural and forest ecosystems, insect behavior, insect olfaction and plant volatile compounds, plant response to insect herbivory, integrated pest management, pesticides in agroecological forest ecology, systems, natural forest silviculture, plantation forestry, conservation biology.