Position & Department: Chairman/Associate Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Breeding oilseed Brassica & Sugarcane for yield and quality
Position & Department: Associate Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Environmental stresses are major constraints to the productivity of crops throughout the world. It is therefore imperative that mechanisms and causes of the stress effects on plant growth and development may be determined systematically, and strategies may be adopted to overcome adverse effects of stresses in order to achieve maximum productivity from the salinity, high temperature and drought-hit areas. My current interests are focused on the expression of stress proteins and other stress related primary and secondary metabolites under water, salinity, heat and cadmium stresses, and finding strategies to fetch greater yields under such conditions. Among various crops, major emphasis is on wheat, barley, rice, sugarcane and maize.
Research Intersts: 1. Integration of biotechnology and conventional techniques for crop improvement 2. Evaluation of maize inbred lines for drought tolerance 3. Development of drought tolerant doubled haploid maize inbred lines (100% genetically pure) through genetic induction and anther culture techniques. 4. Development of drought tolerant doubled haploid early maturing and high yielding maize hybrids.
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Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Breeding and genetics of high yielding, early maturing, disease resistant wheat. Development of advance lines tolerant to various abiotic stresses. Exploitation of other minor cereals as supplement grain food along with wheat.
Research Intersts: Development of high yielding and early maturing cotton verities using conventional and modern biotechnological tools. Breeding cotton against different biotic and a biotic stresses.
Research Intersts: Member of research group “Maize and pulses” of the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Development of inbred lines and maintenance of elite germplasm of maize with a high degree of genetic diversity for population improvement, identification and evaluation of maize germplasm with quality attributes for the development of hybrids of industrial importance, study of drought tolerance based diversity among maize accessions at molecular level. Molecular marker study for wilt resistance in chickpea, use of molecular, physiological and biochemical markers in the study of biotic and abiotic stresses in pulses.
Research Intersts: Stress breeding of field crops and genetic aspects of heavy metal tolerance in Tomato and Okra
Research Intersts: Molecular Biology, Plant Biotechnology, Plant Breeding
Research Intersts: Plant breeding is the science and business of crop improvement. It is an innovation based sector, focused on developing plants better adapted to the environment and to human needs. I am handling two Farm & Research Projects, for production of surplus green fodder as well as seed in berseem, oats, sorghum and maize. Additionally, I am working on development of multicut, Sorghum-Sudangrass hybrid plants having better nutritional quality (particularly protein contents) to satisfy the degree of hunger in livestock during extreme summers. I am also working on development of fodder crops, which can successfully cope the climate-resilient factors (abiotic and biotic) and could provide more benefits with minimum application of inputs (fertilizer, irrigation, weedicides/pesticides). As, Today’s Plant Breeding is more than just producing varieties of crops/seeds. That’s why, I am focusing on different issues related to genetic conservation, crop production, farm management, and profitability keeping in view the market conditions.
Research Intersts: Sunflower improvement for high quality oil and oil yield. Development of local inbred lines in sunflower for hybrid variety development
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Molecular characterization of disease resistance genes in plants, in particular, identification of novel resistance genes against plant viruses. I am also interested to improve and exploit the variation in the germplasm.
Research Intersts: Breeding for abiotic stresses in oilseed crops, Molecular cytogenetics (Metaphase preparation, Squash preparation, Meiotic stages, FISH and GISH) and use of statistical software (R, Genstat, Minitab and Statistic)
Position & Department: Research Officer, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Position & Department: Steno Grapher, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Position & Department: Research Assistant , Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Administrative Matters, Accounts
Position & Department: Junior Lab. Assistant, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Position & Department: Incharge, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Farm supervisor
Position & Department: Technician, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture