*Kamrun Nahar¹, Mirza Hasanuzzaman², M. H. M. Borhannuddin Bhuyan³, Sayed Mohammad Mohsin⁴, Khursheda Parvin⁵, Kamal Uddin Ahamed¹, Masayuki Fujita⁶ (1. Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh, 2. Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh, 3. Citrus Research Station, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Jaintapur, Sylhet, Bangladesh, 4. Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh, 5. Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh, 6. Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan)

*Lutfun Nahar¹, Murat Aycan², Marouane Baslam², Toshiaki Mitsui² (1. Department of Life and Food Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan., 2. Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan)

*Ahmed Khairul Hasan¹, Umma Hany², Mozammel Hoque³, Md. Abdul Kader⁴, Shams Shaila Islam⁵ (1. Professor/Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2. Research Fellow/Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 3. Professor/Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, Bangladesh., 4. Professor/Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 5. Associate Professor/Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University, Dinajpur)

*Murat Aycan¹, Marouane Baslam¹, Bayram Ozdemir², Rasit Asiloglu¹, Toshiaki Mitsui¹, Mustafa Yildiz² (1. Niigata Univ., 2. Ankara Univ.)

*Md. Nuruzzaman^1,2, Masato Sato¹, Satoru Okamoto¹, Hoque Mozammel³, Daniel J. Shea¹, Ryo Fujimoto⁴, Motoki Shimizu⁵, Eigo Fukai¹, Keiichi Okazaki¹ (1. Niigata University, Japan, 2. Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh, 3. Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh, 4. Kobe University, Japan, 5. Iwate Biotechnology Institute, Iwate, Japan)

*Haoran Lu^1,2, Peng Feng^1,2, Pengmin Zhang^1,2, Xiaodong Ding^1,2 (1. Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biological Functional Genes, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin,150030,P.R.China., 2. Key Laboratory of Soybean Biology of Chinese Education Ministry, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030, P.R.China.)

*Mirza Hasanuzzaman¹, Kamrun Nahar² (1. Department of Agronomy, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh, 2. Department of Agricultural Botany, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh)

*Han Zhao¹, Fahu Li¹ (1. China Agricultural University)