Dr. Qazi Fariduddin

Biography

Qazi Fariduddin is an associate professor of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, where he teaches courses in plant physiology and biochemistry, molecular biology and plant ecology. Fariduddin's work has appeared in several journals of national and international repute including, plant physiology and biochemistry, environmental and experimental botany, chemoshere, photosynthetica etc. He has also contributed chapters in the books published from springer and other reputed Indian publishers. He is manuscript reviewer for several prominent journals of repute in his field. Research Area Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Research Interest Brassinosteroids (BRs) are a new group of naturally occurring steroidal plant hormone with wide range of biological activity like stem stem elongation, root initiation, leaf bending and epinasty, synthesis of ethylene, proton pump activation and xylem differentiation. Moreover, BRs may be exploited as a new generation of chemicals exogenously applied to improve the biological yield of plants. BRs are known to improve the resistance of plants against various biotic and abiotic stresses like heat, chilling, salt and heavy metal stress. Our group work's mainly encompasses the use of most stable analogue of BRs (epibrassinolide and homobrassinolide) against stresses like nickel, aluminium, copper and boron to mitigate heavy metal stress. We are also trying to unravel the mechanism by which BRs confer resistance to stresses like temperature, drought through modulation of antioxidants system. Salicylic acid (SA), an ubiquitous plant phenolics is recognized as an endogenous regulator plant metabolism. Our group work involves the use of salicylic acid to overcome various stresses like salt, drought and heavy metal stress in plants.

Research Interest

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry