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 plant breeders have labored over and importing it into an …

Plant Breeding Innovations Rahil Shahzad, Shakra Jamil, Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Iqbal, Dr. Sajid-Ur-Rahman Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute, AARI Faisalabad Rahilshahzad91@gmail.com Innovations in Plant breeding comprises a number of methods which are used by the plant researchers and plant breeders to improve crops for farmers quickly and precisely. A brief Discussion …

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 crop production. The salt affected salts are classified into three …

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 science that deals with the use of living and non …

Photosynthesis, under drought stress Hamna Shazadee1, Sonia Zulfiqar1, Mahnoor Jamil1, Shakra Jamil2, Rahil Shahzad2 Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture Faislabad Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute, AARI, Faisalabad. Importance of water Water is one of the most important substances which both plant and animal need for their survival. …

                     GENOME EDITING TECHNIQUE: CRISPR-CAS9: Sonia Zulfiqar1, Mahnoor Jamil1, Rahil Shahzad2, Shakra Jamil2, Muhammad Zaffar Iqbal2 Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad. Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute, AARI, Faisalabad.   CRISPR-CAS:  “Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats” (CRISPR) are repeated DNA sequences of the prokaryotes. . These …

Nano Biotechnology; its concept, benefits and applications: a medical perspective Sana Shaheen1, Farah Kamal1, Rahil Shahzad2, Shakra Jamil2. Muhammad Zaffar Iqbal2 Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad. Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute, AARI, Faisalabad.   Nanotechnology is a scientific approach that involves materials and equipments capable of …

Marker Assisted Selection in Plant Breeding Purwa Khan1, Hamna Shazadee1, Sana Shaheen1, Shakra Jamil2, Rahil Shahzad2 Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad. Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute, AARI, Faisalabad.   Marker assisted selection has revolutionized the field of plant breeding and genetics. DNA markers are short sequences …

                  Next Generation Sequencing and Cancer Treatment Mahnoor Jamil1, Sonia Zulfiqar1, Shakra Jamil2, Rahil Shahzad2, Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Iqbal2 Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute, AARI, Faisalabad Cancer is a group of diseases which involves …

RNAi, Methodology and its Applications Hamna Shazadee, Purwa Khan, Shakra Jamil, Rahil Shahzad and Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqabl Overview RNA interference (RNAi) is a naturally occurring biological process in which RNA molecules suppress the gene expression or translation, by acting on homologous-targeted mRNA molecules in a range of organisms. This method is also known by other …