Adil Hussain is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Agriculture, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He attained his Master’s in Agriculture (Plant Pathology) from the University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan in 2009 and PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK in Cell and Molecular Biology in 2013. He started his professional career at the Department of Agriculture, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan as Assistant Professor in 2014. He conducted his post-doctorate research in plant functional genomics and forest resource genomics at the College of Agriculture and Life Science, Kyungpook National University, South Korea. He has been working on the role of Nitric Oxide in the biology of plants, insects, and microbes and the interplay between various reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNIs) and reactive oxygen intermediates (ROIs) in the maintenance of normal physiology in plants, insects, and other living organisms.