**About the Editors**

#### **Mubshar Hussain**

Prof. Dr. Mubshar Hussain has worked for the Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan, Pakistan, since 2008. His major research areas include agronomy, conservation agronomy, and allelopathy, and he has published more than 200 aritcles in these fields. These publications include many highly cited papers on the adaptation of crops to water-limited environments, resource conservation techniques, biofortification of staple crops, and non-chemical weed control. Prof. Hussain's research on crop water relations and adaptation to dryland environments has covered a fundamental understanding of the response of crops to water deficits, temperatures, and nutrient deficits. Prof. Hussain has optimized several seed enhancement techniques to improve crop performance under sub-optimum field conditions and deliver micronutrients. Prof. Hussain has also developed non-chemical strategies, such as tillage and the inclusion of allelopathic crops in cropping systems, for weed management in field crops.

#### **Sami Ul-Allah**

Dr. Sami Ul-Allah is working as an Associate Professor of plant breeding and genetics at the University of Layyah, Layyah, Pakistan, and he has accumulated nine years of experience in teaching and research. Dr. Sami Ul-Allah completed his PhD from the University of Kassel, Germany, in 2013 and started his university career by joining the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics as an Assistant Professor. After two years of service, he moved to Bahauddin Zakariya University, Layyah campus, where he was promoted to the role of Associate Professor of plant breeding and genetics in 2021. Dr. Sami Ul-Allah has published more than 100 research articles, review papers, and book chapters with world-leading journals and publishers. He has an accumulative impact factor of ∼200. His areas of research include crop improvement for biotic and abiotic stress and biofortification of food crops.

#### **Shahid Farooq**

Dr. Shahid Farooq completed his doctorate from Tokat Gaziosmanpas¸a University, Turkey, in Weed Science in 2018 and has worked at Harran University, S¸anlıurfa, Turkey, since 2018. Dr. Farooq's research interests include invasive plant species, species distribution models, cropping systems, and weed management. Dr. Farooq's research is focused on improving crop production through seed enhancements, the inoculation of bacteria, and the spatial and potential distribution of weeds under current and future climatic conditions. Dr. Farooq has published more than 70 papers in highly reputed journals, mainly focusing on crop production in stressful environments, tolerance of invasive species to benign environmental conditions, factors driving weed distribution, and the potential spread of weed species.
