Dr. Masood, Assistant Professor of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, is presently working on stress physiology of plants and its regulation through internal factors including phytohormones and nutrients. His main area of research is to analyse the stress-inducedresponses in plants to heavy-metal accumulation and toxicity, mineralnutrient availability in the soil and also the role of phytohormones inregulating the nutrient status of cells and their synergistic effect inalleviating heavy-metal toxicity. His main findings have been reported injournals of repute, including Plant, Cell & Environment, Journal ofExperimental Botany, Environmental and Experimental Botany,Photosynthetica, Plant Signalling and Behaviour, Journal of PlantPhysiology and others.