Department: Faculty of Sciences, Department of Botany
Position: Lecturer
HEC Approved Supervisor: YES
Research Intersts: Investigations on different chemical compounds capable of reducing the stress sensitivity of crops are of great importance from both the theoretical and the practical point of view. My current focus is on a phenolic compound salicylic acid was first demonstrated to play a role in biotic stress. However, salicylic acid was gradually found to have more and more roles that could be of importance for other stress factors. A large number of evidence in recent years suggested that salicylic acid also play a role in responses to abiotic stresses such as (drought, salt, low and high temperature, heavy metals etc.). Most of the researches, on this subject, have reported on the protective effect of exogenous salicylic acid against abiotic stress. Numerous mutants and transgenic plants are now available in which the salicylic acid metabolism has been modified in some way.
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