The focus of the Chickpea lab is to explore the natural diversity of the genetic alteration of a cell by the update of DNA from the environment. This process can occur naturally in some types of bacteria, but is typically rare. In a lab at CAS-AFS University of agriculture, Faisalabad, we can subject bacteria to conditions that will cause them to take up DNA from the environment (to become “transformed”).

Selected Publications

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(1). Waqas, M. , M. T. Azhar, F. Azeem, M. A. Ali, M. A. Nawaz, G. Chung, and R. M. Atif, 2019, Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of WRKY transcription factor family from chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) reveal their role in abiotic stress tolerance, Genes and Genomics, , 1-15