List of Contributors

      Bilal Haider Abbasi Department of Biotechnology Quaid‐i‐Azam University Islamabad Pakistan

      Heba Mahmoud Mohammad Abdel‐Aziz Botany Department Faculty of Science Mansoura University Mansoura Egypt

      Nadeesh Adassooriya Department of Chemical and Process Engineering Faculty of Engineering University of Peradeniya Peradeniya Sri Lanka

      Sumaira Anjum Department to Biotechnology Kinnaird College for Women Lahore Pakistan

      Tatiana Bauer Federal Research Center the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Rostov‐on‐Don Russia

      Adalberto Benavides‐Mendoza Department of Horticulture Autonomous Agricultural University Antonio Narro Saltillo Mexico

      Rahul Bhagat Department of Biotechnology Government Institute of Science Aurangabad Maharashtra India

      Hao Chen Department of Agriculture University of Arkansas Pine Bluff AR USA

      Svetlana Deneva Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nalchik Russia

Pavel Diviš Faculty of Chemistry Brno University of Technology Brno Czech Republic

      Laura Olivia Fuentes‐Lara Department of Animal Nutrition Autonomous Agricultural University Antonio Narro Saltillo Mexico

      Nobuhide Fujitake Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences Kobe University Kobe Japan

      Olga Gorobtsova Institute of Mountain Ecology of Russian Academy of Science Nalchik Russia

      Yolanda González‐García Department of Horticulture Autonomous Agrarian University Antonio Narro Saltillo Mexico

      Magín González‐Moscoso PhD Program in Protected Agriculture Autonomous Agricultural University Antonio Narro Saltillo Mexico

      Indarchand Gupta Department of Biotechnology Government Institute of Science Aurangabad Maharashtra India

      Christophe Hano Laboratoire de Biologie des Ligneux et des Grandes Cultures (LBLGC) INRA USC1328 Université d’Orléans France

      Mohammed Nagib Abdel‐ghany Hasaneen Botany Department Faculty of Science Mansoura University Mansoura Egypt

      Hipólito Hernández‐Hernández Institute of Agro‐engineering Papaloapan University Oaxaca Mexico

      Avinash P. Ingle Biotechnology Centre Department of Agricultural Botany Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Agricultural University Akola Maharashtra India

      Antonio Juárez‐Maldonado Departament of Botany Autonomous Agrarian University Antonio Narro Saltillo Mexico

      Marek Kolenčík Nanotechnology Centre VŠB Technical University of Ostrava Ostrava Czech Republic Department of Soil Science and Geology Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra Nitra Slovakia

Amna Komal Department to Biotechnology Kinnaird College for Women Lahore Pakistan

      Pradeep Kumar Department of Forestry North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh India

      A. Lakshmanan Department of Nano Science & Technology Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Coimbatore Tamil Nadu India

      Alonso Méndez‐López Departament of Botany Autonomous Agrarian University Antonio Narro Saltillo Mexico

      Tatiana M. Minkina Southern Federal University Rostov‐on‐Don Russia

      Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda‐Barrios Laboratory of Plant Physiology Autonomous University of Chihuahua Chihuahua Mexico

      Harris Panakkal Department of Biotechnology Government Institute of Science Aurangabad Maharashtra India

      C. Sharmila Rahale Department of Nano Science & Technology Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Coimbatore Tamil Nadu India

      Vishnu D. Rajput Southern Federal University Rostov‐on‐Don Russia

      Illa Ramakanth Department of Chemistry Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies Nuzvid India

      Ryan Rienzie Agribusiness Centre Faculty of Agriculture University of Peradeniya Peradeniya Sri Lanka

      Martin Šebesta Institute of Laboratory Research on Geomaterials Faculty of Natural Sciences Comenius University in Bratislava Bratislava Slovakia

      Martin Šeda Department of Applied Chemistry Faculty of Agriculture University of South BohemiaČeské Budějovice Czech Republic

      Anna Sindireva University of Tyumen Tyumen Russia

Abhishek Singh Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology Meerut Uttar Pradesh India

      Garima Shandilya Nanotechnology Unit Department of Mechanical Engineering Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University College of Engineering Pune Maharashtra India

      Sudhir S. Shende Southern Federal University Rostov‐on‐Don Russia Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University Amravati Maharashtra India

      Tahsin Shoala Environmental Biotechnology Department College of Biotechnology Misr University for Science and Technology 6th of October City Egypt

      K. S. Subramanian Department of Nano Science & Technology Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Coimbatore Tamil Nadu India

      Anita Tanwar Department of Chemistry GDC Memorial College Bahal Haryana India

      Kirtan Tarwadi Nanotechnology Unit Department of Mechanical Engineering Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University College of Engineering Pune Maharashtra India

      Anil Timilsina Department of Agriculture University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, AR USA

      Martin Urík Institute of Laboratory Research on Geomaterials Faculty of Natural Sciences Comenius University in Bratislava Bratislava Slovakia

      Krishan K. Verma Sugarcane Research Institute Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences Nanning Guangxi China

      Ondřej Zvěřina Department of Public Health Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic