Dr. Saddam Hussain
1. Technology development for crop productivity enhancement under sub-optimum conditions, and
2. Adaptation and deployment of climate-resilient crops and crop varieties with better tolerance against environmental stresses
Dr. Saddam Hussain is working as Associate Professor in Plant Stress Physiology at the Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-Pakistan. He has been recognized with several international distinctions/awards in recent years. He published over 180 refereed journal papers (h-index: 62, citations: >14500; June 2023), many of which have sought to understand the morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular basis of crop responses to individual and concurrent abiotic stresses and mechanisms imparting tolerance for such stresses. He devised promising strategies for improving crop performance under sub-optimum conditions and suggested various novel indicators for augmenting stress tolerance in plants. The impact of his publications is consistently on the increase, and he is now receiving over 1500 citations in every single year. His name has been featured in the “Highly Cited Researchers” list by Clarivate/Web of Science in 2021 and 2022. During his professional career, he has availed several national/international grants as a principal investigator worth Rs. >100 million. He established strong research collaboration in several countries including China, USA, Australia, Germany, Canada, and KSA. His academic activities include advising and mentoring graduate students and teaching undergraduate and post-graduate courses related to plant physiology and agronomy. To date, he has supervised >100 postgraduate students as a major supervisor/ supervisory committee member.
Currently, he is working as an Editor/Editorial board member of various international journals including Journal of Advanced Research (Q1, Elsevier), Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (Q1, Elsevier), Journal of Plant Growth Regulation (Q1, Springer), BMC Plant Biology (Q1, Springer), Food and Energy Security (Q1, Wiley), Crop Science-CSSA (Q1, Wiley), PLOS One (Q1, USA), Plants (Q1, MDPI), International Journal of Agronomy, Applied Environmental and Soil Science, Frontiers in Agronomy, and PeerJ - Life and Environment.