Dr. Muhammad Farooq is Professor of Plant Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. He also holds the positions of Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia and Dankook University, South Korea. Dr. Farooq is the recipient of several fellowships and awards from Australia, Germany, Japan, Oman and Pakistan, and. He was named the ‘Highly Cited Researcher’ by the Clarivate/Web of Sciences for the years 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. His research has encompassed providing an understanding of the response of crops to abiotic stresses. He has developed seed enhancements for improving crop performance under less than optimum conditions and for the delivery of micronutrients. He devised technologies for the cost-effective biofortification of grain crops with zinc and iron. He is among the pioneers to develop non-chemical weed control, through allelopathy, in field crops. He optimized, developed and popularized conservation agricultural systems In Pakistan and Oman.