Biography:
Dr. Seyed Abdollah Hosseini has 10 years of research experience in plant physiology and biotechnology. His scientific career has been started in Agriculture Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII) as research assistant and lab manager. He then moved to Germany for his PhD at Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), addressing the role of the potassium nutritional status on drought stress-induced leaf senescence in barley. Since 2017, he is employed as Project manager at Agro Innovation International of Roullier Group. He is currently focused on potassium and silicon nutrition in plants in particular under drought condition.. All his scientific works and research studies in different topic in the past were published in 6 papers in outstanding international journals.
Title : Induction of barley silicon transporters HvLsi1 and HvLsi2 is responsible for silicon accumulation in shoot under concomitant drought and K deficiency.