Director CAS: Prof Dr. Sultan Habib Ullah Khan
Professor, Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
Incharge Cotton Biotechnology Lab CAS-AFS.
Since the past eighteen years I have been engaged in the fields of plant breeding, genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology. My career goals centre on tailoring crop varieties with better tolerance to the changing environment through breeding and genome engineering. In my earlier research at NIBGE and UC-Berkeley, I worked on the characterization of leaf curl disease and examined transgene stacking using site-specific recombinases in cotton. Before joining CABB, I also worked at the Department of Plant Breeding and genetics (UAF) where I focused on mapping genes for yield and water stress tolerance through association mapping. Currently, I am working as an Associate Professor (Tenured) at CABB in the area of cotton biotechnology with the aim to developing site-specific genome engineering technology for stacking multiple transgenes and recycling selectable marker genes. An 8.3 million rupees grant has been provided by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan to support this activity. In addition to site-specific genome engineering, my Lab also interests in Plant Phenomics to bridge the genotype-phenotype gap for more efficient gene mapping. A 40 million rupees grant from ICT R&D Fund is currently in process.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles:
- 2017, Genome wide allelic pattern and genetic diversity of spring wheat genotypes through SSR markers, Int. J. Agric. Biol., 19, 1559?1565
- 2017, Genetic mechanism of leaf venation and stomatal traits for breeding drought tolerant lines in wheat. , Bangladesh Journal of Botany , 46, 35-41
- 2017, Improvement of cotton crop performance by estimating optimum sowing and picking time. , Int. J. Agric. Biol, 19, 241?247
- 2016, Use of TALEs and TALEN Technology for Genetic Improvement of Plants., Mol Biol Rep ,,
- Aziz-ur-Rehman, M. Sajjad, S.H. Khan, R.J. Pe, 2013, Lower tendency of allelic variation of Glu genes and absence of 1BL-1RS translocation in modern Pakistani wheats. , Cereal Res Commun. , DOI: 10.15,
- Sajjad M, SH Khan and RM Rana, 2013, Family and/or Friends? Gene mapping at Crossroads, American Journal of Plant Sciences, 5, 112-118
- Aziz-ur-Rehman, M Sajjad, SH Khan, N Ahmad , 2013, Prospects of wheat breeding for durable resistance against brown, yellow and black rust fungi, International Journal of Agriculture and Biology, 15, 1209?1220
- Sajjad M, A Ather, R Maqbool, N Iqbal, AS Khan, YQ Gu, SH Khan , 2011, Breeding for Grain Yield and HMW Glutenin Alleles in Spring Wheat , Pak. J. Bot, ,
- Sajjad M, SH Khan, AS Khan, 2011, Exploitation of Germplasm for Grain Yield Improvement in Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), Int. J. Agric. Biol, ,
- Gulnaz S, M Sajjad I, Khaliq, AS Khan, SH Khan, 2011, Relationship among coleoptile length, plant height and tillering capacity for developing improved wheat varieties. , Int. J. Agric. Biol., 13, 130–133
- Maqbool R, M Sajjad, I Khaliq, AU Rehman, AS Khan, SH Khan, 2010, Morphological Diversity and Traits Association in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). , American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 8, 216-224
- Rehman OU, SH Khan, M Sajjad, 2009, Genetic diversity among cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) genotypes existing in Pakistan. , American -Eurasian J. Sustainable Agric., 3, 816-823
- Yan X, SH Khan, T Hase, MJ Emes, CG Bowsher, 2006, Differential uptake of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic proteins by pea root plastids. , FEBS Letters, 580, 6509-6512
- Mansoor S, SH Khan, M Hussain, N Mushtaq, Y Zafar, KA Malik , 2000, Evidence that Watermelon Leaf Curl Disease in Pakistan Is Associated with Tomato Leaf Curl Virus-India, a Bipartite Begomovirus. , Plant Disease., 84, 102
- Mansoor S, SH Khan, M Hussain, Y Zafar, MS Pinner, RW Briddon, J Stanley, PG Markham., 2000, Association of a Begomovirus and Nanovirus-like Molecule with Ageratum Yellow Vein Disease in Pakistan. , Plant Disease , 84, 101