Dr. Gausiya Bashri is Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. She has obtained her D.Phil. degree on the topic “Influence of Plant Growth Regulators on Heavy Metal Induced Toxicity in Trigonella foenum-graecum L.” in Botany from the Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India. The major area of research includes plant growth regulators and abiotic stress tolerance mechanism in plants. She has worked on various plant physiological aspects like estimation of oxidative biomarkers, antioxidants, photosynthetic rate, chlorophyll a fluorescence and nitrogen metabolism in response to heavy metal, and other abiotic stresses. Dr. Bashri has published her research work in different international journals with good impact factor like Plos One, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, Plant Growth Regulation (Springer), Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (Elseviers) and Chemistry and Ecology (Taylor and Francis). She has also published ten book chapters in edited books. Dr. Bashri is a regular reviewer of journals like Toxicology Research (Wiley), Plos One, Frontiers in Agronomy, Journal of King Saud University – Science, etc.