Contact Information: 0092-300-5127165, zaheerahmed@uaf.edu.pk

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Soybean lab thrives the efforts to develop and adapt soybean crop in Pakistan. Soybean crop has been considered to substitute import bills, diversify cropping systems and ensure food security in the variable climatic conditions. The main objectives of our lab include; development of climate smart soybean lines that are suitable for cultivation in multiple seasons, environment and cropping system to cope up the biotic and abiotic stresses by innovative production technologies, mechanization, enhanced nutritional profile varieties for end consumers, its suitability to the environment. Moreover, the lab is also involved in management of technology transfer mechanism, farmer-academia-industry linkage related to soybean crop. Furthermore, our lab is involved in optimization of tissue culture for soybean, tomato, potato and chili, with the utilization of CRISPR-Cas9 based genome editing for various biotic and abiotic factors.

Selected Publications
1. Genetic dissection of advanced soybean ( Glycine max L.) germplasm for spring season cultivation in Pakistan
2. Development and genomic characterization of EMS induced mutant population of Zea mays L .
3. Advances in Molecular Markers to Develop Soybean Cultivars with Increased Protein and Oil Content
4. Determinants of resistant starch accumulation in wheat endosperm
5. Predicting the impact of environmental factors on citrus canker through multiple regression
6. Genotyping-by-Sequencing Based Molecular Genetic Diversity of Pakistani Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Accessions
7. In-vitro ANTIBACTERIAL POTENTIAL OF ANTIBIOTICS AGAINST Xanthomonas axonopodis PV. citri
8. Assessing aging impact on growth potential of Vitamin E primed Soybean seeds via biochemical profiling
9. Biochemical base of resistance in citrus against canker disease
10. Nanobioremediation of insecticides and herbicides
11. Potential of Levofloxacin and Ciprofloxacin against citrus canker caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri
12. First Report of Alternaria alternata Causing Fruit Rot on Fig ( Ficus carica ) in Pakistan
13. Role of mineral nutrients in confronting citrus canker caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis Pv. citri
14. ASSESSMENT OF GENETIC POTENTIAL OF CITRUS GERMPLASM AGAINST CITRUS CANKER CAUSED BY XANTHOMONAS AXONOPODIS PV. CITRI
15. Isolation of biotic stress resistance genes from cotton (Gossypium arboreum) and their analysis in model plant tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) for resistance against cotton leaf curl disease complex
16. Resistant Starch Content Is Related to Granule Size in Barley
17. Modification of starch metabolism in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana increases plant biomass and triples oilseed production
18. Functional characterisation of an intron retaining K+ transporter of barley reveals intron-mediated alternate splicing
19. Protein–protein interactions among enzymes of starch biosynthesis in high-amylose barley genotypes reveal differential roles of heteromeric enzyme complexes in the synthesis of A and B granules
20. Allelic variants of the amylose extender mutation of maize demonstrate phenotypic variation in starch structure resulting from modified protein–protein interactions
21. Effect of sorbitol in callus induction and plant regeneration in wheat
22. Identification of Diversity for Drought Tolerance 101
23. Molecular Markers Based Identification of Diversity for Drought Tolerance in Bread Wheat Varieties and Synthetic Hexaploids