Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Breeding of oilseeds, Brassicas and sunflower, Breeding forage crops, sorghum and sudangrass
Position & Department: Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Sustainable production of crops is at risk due to insect pests and disease attack. Similarly, abiotic stresses like drought, heat and cold etc. significantly reduce crop yield. Especially, in the scenario of climate change, management of these stresses by engineering crop plants which may give good yield under stress environments is very important. My research efforts are focused on genetic tolerance of crop plants against biotic (insect pests etc) and abiotic stress using biotechnological tools.
Position & Department: Professor/Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Wheat breeding for normal and stress environments
Position & Department: Associate Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Breeding oilseed Brassica & Sugarcane for yield and quality
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 transgenic plants for stress tolerance and agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer and rice tissue culture.
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Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Genetic improvement of fodder and oilseed crops for better yield, quality and stress tolerance through breeding and biotechnological methods
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: Breeding and Genetics of forage and oilseed crops particularly with respect to drought and heat tolerance
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.
Position & Department: Research Officer, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture