The focus of the Soybean lab in CAS-AFS is to strengthen the applied research and innovation capacities of soybean crop in Pakistan. It includes massive cultivation and harvesting of various soybean varieties across all the regions of Pakistan. The aim of the soybean lab is to meet the food, feed and economic requirement of the country to become self-reliant producer. Moreover, the genome editing and molecular characterization of soybean, potato, tomato and chilies crops are also being under process to combat various biotic and abiotic stresses for the sustainable agriculture growth.

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