Professor Avtar Handa has published a refereed paper in CBI Agriculture and Bioscience entitled “SALT TOLERANCE INDEX AND MORPHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TOMATO F2 SEGREGATING LINES UNDER SALINITY STRESS” with his previous technician Tanya Datsenka and two collaborators from University of Abomey, Cotonou, Benin. This manuscript describe potential developing salt-tolerant genotypes of tomato by crossing a cultivated salt-sensitive tomato cultivar of Solanum lycopersicum CA4-S and a salt tolerant wild-relative (Solanum pimpinellifolium LA1606-T). A copy of full manuscript can be obtained from CABI Agriculture and Bioscience (2025) 6:1, 0031 https://doi.org/10.1079/ab.2025.0031
In addition, Professor Handa has published “HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY OF “DR. AUTAR KRISHEN MATTOO (1943–2024): AN OUTSTANDING PLANT BIOLOGIST WITH A FOCUS ON PHOTOSYNTHESIS” in Photosynthetica, An international Journal for Photosynthesis Research with other internationally scientists: Prof. M. Ed Edelman of Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot, Israel, Prof. WW Adams III of Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0334, USA and Prof G. Govindjee, Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. Dr. Mattoo made seminal contribution in identifying a protein designated D1, which e demonstrated to be responsible for herbicide glyphosate action in plants. Other significant contribution of Dr. Mattoo was in the field of plant polyamines, where in collaborations with Dr. Handa they sowed role of polyamine in several basic biological processes in plants including regulating their life span. Dr. Mattoo, a distinguished scientist at USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, was a long-term collaborator of Professor Handa and passed away in December 2024. Full article can be downloaded at DOI 10.32615/ps.2025.014; PHOTOSYNTHETICA 63 (2): 95-103, 2025.