**Meet the editor**

Dr. Zubaida Yousaf is working as an associate professor in the Department of Botany, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore. She joined this institute in 2009 as an assistant professor. She did her postdoc from South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, China, in 2011, funded by TWAS-CAS. She has authored 45 research articles and 4 books and contributed 6 chapters in international editors' book. She has supervised more than 40 MS thesis, and currently 5 PhD students are working under her supervision.
