Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel LatefProfessor Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef is a professor of plant physiology at the Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Egypt. He has published extensively in both journals and books from leading scientiic publishers, and is the recipient of the ParOwn 1207 Post Doctor Fellowship 2007 granted by the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, which was carried out at the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China. He is serving as a guest editor for special issues in Plants-- Basel (2), Frontiers in Plant Science (1) and Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany (1). Prof. Arafat is actively engaged in studying the physio-biochemical and molecular responses of different plants under environmental stresses and their tolerance strategies under these stressors Read More Read Less