Dr. Antonio Juárez Maldonado is a professor and researcher in the Department of Botany at the Autonomous Agrarian University Antonio Narro, Mexico. He obtained his Master of Science in Horticulture and Doctorate in Production Systems Engineering from the Autonomous Agrarian University Antonio Narro. His research areas cover plant ecophysiology, crop stress, the stimulating effect of nanomaterials in agricultural crops, greenhouse crop production, control of pathogens in crops with the use of nanomaterials, and induction of tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress.