作者: Güzin Tombuloğlu

Dr. Khalid Rehman Hakeem (Ph D) is working as a Fellow Researcher at the Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia and also a Visiting Professor at Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has obtained his MSc. (Environmental Botany) as well as Ph D (Botany) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India in 2006 and 2011 respectively. He has conducted his Post Doctorate research in the fields of forest dynamics and plant biotechnological studies from Universiti Putra Malaysia from 2012-2013. Dr. Hakeem has more than Nine years of teaching and research experience in Plant Eco-Physiology, Biotechnology & Molecular biology, Plant-Microbe-soil interactions as well as in Environmental sciences. Recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels, Dr. Hakeem has so far edited and authored more than sixteen books with International publishers. He has also to his credit more than 70 research publications in peer reviewed international journals, including 30 book chapters with international publishers. He is also the Editorial board member and reviewer of several high impact international Journals. Dr. Hakeem is currently engaged in studying the plant processes at ecophysiological as well as proteomic levels.  Dr. Güzin Tombuloğlu (Ph D) is working as a Assistant Professor  at the Pathology Laboratory Techniques Programme of Vocational School of Medical Sciences, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey. She has received her MSc.(Biology) degree in 2008  and Ph D (Biotechnology) degree in 2014 from Fatih University. She has studied transcriptomics identification of barley boron tolerance mechanism during her Ph D. She has experienced several projects on abiotic stress, plant stress responses, Boron toxicity and transcriptomics. She has given several courses on teaching biology education for ten years. She also worked as a Chairman in Pathology Laboratory Techniques Programme and Assistant Manager at Vocational School of Medical Sciences at Fatih University.   Dr. Hüseyin Tombuloğlu (Ph D) ize: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;”>is working as an Assistant Profesor at the Faculty of Science and Arts, Department of Biology, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received his BSc. degree in 2007 from Istanbul University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Turkey, and also he studied as an exchange student in University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He obtained MSc.(Biology) degree in 2010 and Ph D (Biotechnology) degree in 2014 from Fatih University. During this period, he worked on molecular biology of plants, specifically abiotic stresses and the long distance communication of plants via mi RNAs. He has awarded several projects supported by TUBITAK (The Scientific And Technological Research Council of Turkey) and BAP (Research Fond of Fatih University). Dr. Tombuloglu  has more than eight years of teaching and research experience in Genetics, Molecular Genetics, Plant Physiogy and Biotechnology, as well as Bioinformatics. His current research is focused on the organ-to-organ communication, Boron-stress, and proteomics.