Department:  Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB),

Position:  Assistant Professor

HEC Approved Supervisor:  YES

Research Intersts:  Under the present scenario of climate change, our crop plants have been facing biotic and abiotic stresses. I am interested to know the resistance mechanisms at molecular level developed by cereal crop plants against these stresses. I have been using Molecular Biology techniques and state of the art transformation systems to study stress mechanisms and develop transgenic plants resistant against these stresses.

Publications:  

1. Abrar Ul Haq Khan, M A Aslam, I Hussain, A G Naz, I A Rana, M M Ahmad, M Ali, and S Ahmad, 2013, Role of Toll-like receptor 2 (–196 to –174) polymorphism in susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in Pakistani population, International Journal of Immunogenetics, 41, 105-111
2. Muhammad Jamil, Iqrar Ahmad Rana, Zulfiqar Ali, Faisal Saeed Awan, Zaigham Shahzad, Abdus Salam Khan, 2013, Estimation of Genetic Diversity in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Genotypes using Simple Sequence Repeats, Molecular Plant Breeding, 4, 285-291
3. 1. Ijaz, S., I. A. Rana., I. A. Khan and M. Saleem, 2011, Protocol optimization of in vitro regeneration of selected sugarcane genotypes for genetic transformation., Genet. Mol. Res., ,

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