Sunflower the Future of Oilseeds (By Usama Yousaf) Sunflower is a very important plant of modern era because of its broad use in the food and medicine. It belongs to family Asteraceae and its scientific name is Helianthus anus “Helios”…
FANCA Gene mutation; responsible for early onset of Cancer Safa Khalid BS (hons) Bioinformatics University of Agriculture, Faisalabad ABSTRACT: FANCA gene is responsible for the activation of DNA repair pathway. Due to genetic mutations, this gene could not work…
Crop improvement through Biotechnology Biotechnology in the World Food prices experienced in 2008 are believed to have pushed 100 million people into hunger worldwide. And, the world population continues to increase further straining food supplies. Currently at 6.7 billion people, the…
DH Technology in Maize Research and Breeding Homozygous inbred lines are the basis of hybrid maize breeding. Two inbred lines are crossed to produce high yielding hybrids. Hybrid varieties exploit heterosis and is highly successful in increasing the agriculture production…
OVERCOMING A MENTAL ROADBLOCK FOR USING PLANT BREEDING SOFTWARE Rahil Shahzad and Shakra Jamil So you are seriously contemplating using plant breeding software for your research program, but the idea of taking years worth of data that you and previous…
Biosynthesis and regulation of jasmonic acid & salicylic acid in plant stress tolerance By SADAF SALEEM Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad. Phytohormones and their derivatives are considered as major regulators of plant growth and…
Plant Breeding Innovations Rahil Shahzad, Shakra Jamil, Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Iqbal, Dr. Sajid-Ur-Rahman Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute, AARI Faisalabad [email protected] Innovations in Plant breeding comprises a number of methods which are used by the plant researchers and plant breeders to…
Polyploidy as an evolutionary event in rice Sadaf Saleem Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad. Introduction The organism with multiple sets of its haploid chromosome no. (x) is termed as polyploid and the phenomena lead…
Salt Stress and its impact on crop productivity in Pakistan Rahil Shahzad, Shakra Jamil, Dr. Sajid UR-Rahman and Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Iqbal Salinity may be defined as the excessive accumulation of salts up to that level which negatively affect the…
Synthetic Biology and Ethics Farah Kamal1, Sana Shaheen1, Purwa Khan1, Shakra Jamil2, Rahil Shahzad2 Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture Faislabad Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute, AARI, Faisalabad. What is synthetic biology? Synthetic biology is the branch of…
