Plant Growth-Promoting Microbes for Sustainable Biotic and Abiotic Stress Management

Professor of Plant Physiology

Ain Shams University

El Makres St. Roxy

Cairo 1575 

Egypt

1Agircultural Biotechnology Department

College of Agriculture and Food Sciences

KingFaisal University

Al-Ahsa 31982

Saudi Arabia

2Biochemistry Department 

Faculty of Agriculture 

Cairo University 

Giza 

Egypt

Hossam El-Beltagi, Ph.D. is a Professor at Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia and a Professor at Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. Dr. Hossam research interests include plant biotic and abiotic stress, plant biochemistry, Biotechnology and plant secondary metabolites.  He has published, 5 book chapters, 1 review articles, and more than 102 research articles in international peer reviewed journals including Food Chemistry, PLoS One, International journal of food science and nutrition, Food Biochemistry, Molecules, Sustainability, Animals, Antioxidants, Radiation Physics And Chemistry, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, Grasas y acetes, Gesunde Pflanzen, Journal of Biotechnology, Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici cluj napoca, Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, and Journal of medicinal plant research. He is Associate Editor in many International Journals in different publishing houses including Journal of Advanced Research in Elsevier and Notulae Scientia Biologicae, Dr. Hoosam attended more than 25 international conferences and workshops. He has a member of more than 8 international scientific societies. Dr. Hossam reviewer in more than 30 international peer reviewed journals in many publishing houses. He received many Prizes including Ministry of Higher Education Prize for International Publishing Award in top Eigen factor Score journal 2012, Country Encouragement Prize for Agriculture Sciences, 2013. Cairo University Encouragement Prize in advanced technological sciences 2013, Cairo University scientific excellence Prize in the field of interdisciplinary environmental science 2015. Dr. Hossam servedas visiting professor in Biochemistry department in college of science in Granada University, Spain 2017. He served as Consultant in Deanship of Scientific Research in King Faisal University since 2019 to date.

Plant Pathology Research Institute

Agricultural Research Center (ARC)

Giza

Egypt

Kamel Abd-Elsalam, Ph.D. is a Research Professor at Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt. Dr. Kamel’s research interests include developing, improving and deploying plant biosecurity diagnostic tools, understanding and exploiting fungal pathogen genomes and developing eco-friendly hybrid nanomaterials for controlling toxicogenic fungi and plant diseases. He has published, 10 book chapters, 6 review articles, 1 translated book, and more than 120 research articles in international peer reviewed journals including Fungal Diversity, Fungal Biology, FEMS Review Microbiology, PLOS One and PLOS Genetics. He is associate editor for Mycosphere, and review editor for Frontiers in Genomic Assay Technology and referees for journals, including the Plant Pathology, Journal of Phytopathology, and Crop Protection, IET Nanotechnology, Fungal Diversity, BMC Genomics, Foodborne Pathogens and Diseases and edited or authored some books. Dr. Kamel has also served as molecular mycologist for 5 years in the Department Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He received the Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils Prize for distinguished scientific research in biotechnology (fungal genomics) during 2014 (first ranking). Dr. Kamel has pursued his Ph.D. in Molecular Plant Pathology from Christian Alberchts University of Kiel (Germany) and Suez Canal University (Egypt) and then been awarded postdoctoral fellowship from Christian Alberchts University of Kiel in 2008. Dr. Kamel served as visiting associate professor in Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand, Institute of Microbiology, TUM, Germany, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands and Plant Protection Department, Sassari University, Italy.