Abdul Aziz
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Biography
Abdul Aziz has completed his PhD from University of Durham in 1985. He is a professor of Botany, published over 100 research papers and served as a Chief Editor, Bangladesh J. Botany. He has developed large-scale Azolla pinnata (used as poultry and fish feed) production system in ponds round the year; bio-indicator of arsenic pollution and measuring arsenic in groundwater using Azolla filiculoides; discovered new phenomena of cyanobacterial morphogenesis like differentiation of a hormogonium or a hair depending on availability of PO4-P in the environment from a single cell; sorted out taxonomic confusions on stigonematalean members and Lyngbya notarisii.