Prof. Salah El-Hendawy

Salah El-Hendawy received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich, Institute of Plant Nutrition, Department of Plant Sciences, Germany, in 2004 and his M.Sc. from the Agronomy Department, Suez Canal University. He has been an Associate Professor at the King Saud University since 2012. His research concentrates on the intersection between plant and environmental stress with emphasis on drought, salt, and submergence stresses and agricultural water management. Improving Egyptian wheat genotypes for salt tolerance is one area of study. The response of field crops to different agronomic practices was also studied. Sensitive reactions of gramineous plants to salt stress were elucidated, with a particular focus on physiological and chemical characteristics. His recent attempts have concentrated on non-destructive techniques to characterize with high-throughput the relevant traits of plants under drought and salinity stress in field conditions (precision phenotyping). The other major research topic deals with optimizing water management and implementing novel methods in plant cultivation.