Dr Shah Fahad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agronomy, Abdul Wali Khan University, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He obtained his PhD in Agronomy from Huazhong Agriculture University, China, in 2015. He has published over 420 peer-reviewed papers with more than 380 research and 50 review articles, on important aspects of climate change, plant physiology and breeding, plant nutrition, plant stress responses and tolerance mechanisms, and exogenous chemical priming-induced abiotic stress tolerance. He has also contributed 70 book chapters to various book editions published by Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, and Elsevier. He has edited fifteen book volumes, including this one, published by CRC press, Springer, and Intech Open. He won Young Rice International Scientist award and distinguish scholar award in 2014 and 2015 respectively. He won 15 projects from international and national donor agencies. Dr Shah Fahad name included in Clarivate's 2021 and 2022 lists of Highly Cited Researchers in the field of Plant and Agriculture sciences. He has worked and is presently continuing on a wide range of topics, including climate change, greenhouse emission gasses, abiotic stresses tolerance, roles of phytohormones and their interactions in abiotic stress responses, heavy metals, regulation of nutrient transport processes.