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Mohammad Faisal

Also known as: Faisal, Mohammad, Mohd Faisal, Mohd. Faisal, M Faisal, Faisal, M

King Saud University, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Aligarh Muslim University, Kangwon National University

Research areas: Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Plant Science · Plant tissue culture and regeneration · Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation · Growth and nutrition in plants

ORCID iD 0000-0002-8176-1527
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I am working as a Professor in the Department of Botany & Microbiology, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. I have earned global recognition by being listed among the Top 2% of Scientists Worldwide by Stanford University and Elsevier.
I received his Ph.D. degree in Botany with special emphasis in Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology from the Aligarh Muslim University, India. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Biological Research Centre (CIB), Madrid, Spain, under the Program of Ministry Science & Innovation, Spain and at the Botany Department of AMU, India under the DST Fast-track scheme for Young Scientist by the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India. I also spent time as a Visiting Fellow at the Kangwon National University, South Korea to learn some advanced techniques in in vitro culture and genetic engineering.
My research focuses on several areas of biotechnology/molecular biology in higher plants including in vitro morphogenesis, tissue culture, mass propagation and crop improvements with significant contributions to encapsulating plant propagules for conservation, storage & sustainable management of germplasm. My contribution extends beyond conventional boundaries as I employ advanced biotechnological methodologies for molecular, anatomical and phytochemical characterization of tissue culture plantlets. Another area of my research is in the interaction of nanoparticles with plants and their effects and mechanism of interaction at cellular and molecular level.
I've published over 180 research articles in globally esteemed, peer-reviewed journals, accumulating nearly 7737 citations for my works with an h-index of 45. I hold memberships of several academic bodies/societies including International Association of Plant Biotechnology, USA. I serve in editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals in the area of plant biology including Plant Cell, Tissue & Organ Culture of the Springer Nature and Plant Biotechnology Reports, Elsevier Sciences. I actively participate in disseminating knowledge in my research area. In addition to peer reviewed journal publications, I have edited 07 books published by the Springer Nature in the area of plant tissue culture and related biotechnologies. Recently, my team and I achieved success in translating two books titled "Plant Biotechnology and Genetics: Principles, Techniques, and Applications" and “Environmental Sustainability: Role of Green technologies” into Arabic, officially published by the King Saud University Press.
I have been honored with multiple awards in recognition of my accomplishments and contributions, including Research Excellence Award-2025 by the AFTEFS, Excellence of Research Award-2023 by the ISAHRD, Outstanding Scientist Award-2021 by VDGOOD Professional Association, SESR Fellow and Plant Biotechnologist Award-2017 by the Society of Scientific and Educational Research (SESR), and Scientist of the Year Award-2015 by the National Environmental Science Academy. I was recently elected as the Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, UK. Currently, I serve as an International Panel Experts of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prague, Czech Republic and external faculty assessor in several Universities.

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