Dr. Mohammad Anwar Hossain
Professor, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding,
Bangladesh Agricultural University
anwargpb@bau.edu.bd
Member since 2020

Short Biography

Dr. Mohammad Anwar Hossain received his BSc in Agriculture and MS in Genetics and Plant Breeding degree from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh. He also received an MS in Agriculture degree from Kagawa University, Japan, in 2008 and a PhD in Abiotic Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology from Ehime University, Japan in 2011 through Monbukagakusho scholarship.

As a JSPS postdoctoral researcher, he has worked on isolating low phosphorus stress-tolerant genes from rice at the University of Tokyo, Japan during the period of 2015-17. His current research program focuses on understanding physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms underlying environmental stress tolerance in plants and the generation of stress-tolerant and nutrient-efficient plants through breeding and biotechnology. He has over 75 peer-reviewed publications and has edited 15 books published by CRC Press, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and CABI

Selected Publications

  1. MA Hossain, M Fujita. Purification of glyoxalase I from onion bulbs and molecular cloning of its cDNA. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry 73(9) (2009), 2007-2013.
  2. MA Hossain, S Bhattacharjee, SM Armin, P Qian, W Xin, H-Y Li, DJ Burritt, M Fujita, LSP Tran. Hydrogen peroxide-priming modulates abiotic oxidative stress tolerance: insights from ROS detoxification and scavenging. Frontiers in Plant Science 6 (2015), 420.
  3. MG Mostofa, MA Hossain, M Fujita, LSP Tran. Physiological and biochemical mechanism associated with trehalose-induced copper-stress tolerance in rice. Scientific Reports 5(2015), 11433.
  4. MG Mostofa, MA Hossain, M Fujita, LSP Tran. Phenotypical, physiological and biochemical analyses provide insight into selenium-induced phytotoxicity in rice plants. Chemosphere 178(2017), 212-223.
  5. MJ Islam, MJ Uddin, MA Hossain, R Henry, MK Begum, MAT Sohel, MA Mou, J Ahn, EJ Cheong, YS Lim. Exogenous putrescine attenuates the negative impact of drought stress by modulating physio-biochemical traits and gene expression in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.). PLOS One 17(1) (2022), e0262099.