Fenugreek: Improvement in Yield Potential Through Plant Growth Regulators (Pgrs) and Depolymerized Polysaccharides

Offers review of fenugreek, highlighting its nutritional and medicinal applications while discussing methods for enhancing its yield and quality by improving the growth, physiological, and biochemical parameters. Discusses origin, geographical distribution, characterization of bioactive compounds (BACs), and more.

Tariq Ahmad Dar, PhD, is working as Assistant Professor at Sri Pratap College, Srinagar, affiliated with Cluster University, Srinagar, India. He is working on the different aspects of the effects of plant growth regulators, mineral nutrients, nanoparticles, and marine polysaccharides on the growth, physiology, and secondary metabolite production of medicinal and aromatic plants. He has published his research in journals of international repute and has about 15 publications to his credit to date. He has presented his work at various national and international conferences as well. Dr. Dar has qualified several competitive exams, including CSIR-NET, JKSET, and GATE (life sciences) and has been actively engaged in the teaching of plant physiology, biodiversity, plant ecology and taxonomy, cell and molecular biology, crop genetics, and plant breeding for the last six years. He earned his master’s degree (MSc) at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, and doctorate degree (PhD) in Botany (Plant Physiology) at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.

Bilal Ahmad, PhD, is working as an Assistant Professor at the Government Degree College for Women, Pulwama, affiliated with the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India. He formerly worked as a lecturer at the Govt. Gandhi Memorial College, University of Jammu. Dr. Ahmad has more than four years of teaching experience in plant physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, and eco-physiology. He has studied the influence of various plant growth promoters, radiation-processed polysaccharides, and nanoparticles on different medicinal plants. He is the recipient of several awards at both international and national conferences and has reviewed various research articles for journals that include Journal of Hazardous Materials, Photosynthetica, etc. To date, Dr. Ahmad has authored 36 research publications in impact factor international journals and edited volumes of various books with international publishers. He earned his doctorate (Botany; specialization in Advanced Plant Physiology)at Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Moinuddin, PhD, is a Professor of Botany at Women’s College at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India, from which he earned his PhD in Botany. He conducted his postdoctoral work on drought-stress physiology of wheat at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico, and various other crops at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Pulses Research (PRII), Gurgaon. He has been working on the effect on plant growth regulators (PGRs), nanoparticles, and marine polysaccharides under normal and water-stress conditions for more than 13 years at AMU. Dr. Moinuddin has 108 research papers, review articles, and book chapters (total impact factor value: 124) in addition to 42 conference presentations of both national and international to his credit. He has also guided several MPhil and PhD students at AMU.

Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD, is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is currently the Head (Plant Biotechnology Research Unit) at Princess Dr. Najlaa Bint Saud Al Saud Center for Distinguished Research in Biotech, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. He is also a visiting professor at Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was formerly affiliated with the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India; Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor; Fatih Universiti, Istanbul, Turkey; as well as at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Prof. Hakeem has more than 14 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 was recently elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, London. Currently, he is involved with several international research projects with different government organizations. To date, he has authored and edited more than 95 books with international publishers and has published over 185 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 80 book chapters. He is serving as an editorial board member and reviewer of several high impact international scientific journals and is on the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also the fellow and/or member of the Plantae group from the American Society of Plant Biologists, World Academy of Science, International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan, and Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea. He has been listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World, since 2014-2021. Currently, he is engaged in studying the plant processes at eco-physiological as well as molecular levels. He completed his PhD (botany; specialization in Plant Ecophysiology and Molecular Biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India.