Irshad Ahmad is from Pakistan and is currently studying for a PhD in China, majoring in crop cultivation and farming. He achieved his master's degree in Agriculture Crop Cultivation and Farming from Yangzhou University, China, in the year 2019. Due to good academic records for both professional degrees, he was selected for the Chinese full-supported scholarship. During his master's study, he published two SCI and one international paper as a first author, including one in Agronomy Basel. Now, as a PhD candidate, he has published two SCI papers in different journals on cotton and sorghum crops. His research areas of interest cover the effects of different ratios of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash ratios and different rates of nitrogen on sorghum and cotton's morpho-physiological activity and crop productivity. Now, as a PhD student, he is carrying out research on exogenous hormones such as phyto-melatonin and mepiquate chloride and their role in crop improvements under abiotic stress. Additionally, he is carrying out genetic studies on cotton relating to phytohormones under abiotic stress.