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Institute of Horticultural Sciences
Ahmad Sattar Khan, Ph.D

Position & Department: Director/Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: At preset one third of the fruits and vegetables being produced in Pakistan go wasted in the form of postharvest losses. Both pre-harvest as well as postharvest factors equally important and contribute to these losses. Along with increasing the production potential of existing horticultural crops there is great need to save the existing produce from these loses through standardizing the pre-harvest and postharvest management practice. Therefore, there is great need to exploit the potential of available technologies to extend the post-harvest storage life of fresh horticultural commodities and to reduce the occurrence of physiological disorder through both pre-harvest management (such as plant nutrition, plant growth regulation, plant protection and standard harvesting techniques etc) and postharvest management (such as application plant growth substances, use of cold, CA, MA storage, standard postharvest handling, grading, packaging etc) practices.

 
Khurram Ziaf

Position & Department: Associate Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Vegetable Seed Production, Improvement of Vegetable Production Technology, Vegetable Breeding, Abiotic Stress Management through Conventional and Molecular Approaches

 
Iftikhar Ahmad, Ph.D.

Position & Department: Associate Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: My specific research interests include introduction and evaluation of new specialty cuts including but not limited to native and exotic annuals, woody perennials, and bulbous species, field and greenhouse production and postharvest physiology & technology of cut flowers and cut foliage crops, development of sustainable growing substrates for nursery and potted plant production using local constituents, value addition of ornamentals, and use of plant growth regulators for pre and postharvest improvement of ornamentals. Moreover, I’m working on establishing germplasm units of important ornamentals for germplasm conservation and their evaluation under local conditions, screening of promising native and/or naturalized ornamentals for the selection of potential species to be used as specialty cuts, evaluation of various turfgrass species for recreational an sports turf selection, seed production of annual flowers, and developing pure inbred lines for breeding of ornamentals in future.

 
Muhammad Irfan Ashraf, Ph.D.

Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Vegetable production is a very important discipline. Vegetables play an important role in the economics of country as well as farmers. It is, therefore, necessary to find out the best crop management and improvement practices to achieve highest yields per unit area. My current research interests include the improvement in vegetable production technology, seed production of different vegetables and protected vegetable cultivation.

 
Karim Yar Abbasi

Position & Department: Lecturer, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Despite strong technological advancement and innovation in field of health care, there are still many challenges faced by humanity. Drugs from plants are being used since ancient times. Ethno pharmacological studies helped us in discovering the new drugs from history. My research is focused on different ethno pharmacological surveys, then comparing and validating the findings by chemical analysis

 
Dr. Muhammad Jafar Jaskani, Ph.D.

Position & Department: Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Citriculture, Polyploid breeding, Germplasm characterization and conservation, Micro propagation

 
Dr. Adnan Younis

Position & Department: Associate Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Research Interests: Floriculture and Landscape: Ornamental plant production; propagation, nursery and greenhouse management and operations; evaluation of various growing substrates; value addition and essential oil extraction from aromatic flowers; screening of ornamental plants for stress landscape; designing and management of urban green spaces; Horticulture therapy; planning and management of golf turf; Urban Horticulture; kitchen gardening and edible landscape; cytogenetic tools (GISH and FISH) and chromosome analysis of ornamentals; molecular and classical breeding of ornamentals

 
Bilquees Fatima, Ph.D

Position & Department: Associate Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Exploration and induction of polyploids in citrus and their genomic characterization to enrich germplasm Optimization of regeneration protocols and to induce somaclonal variation in fruit and vegetable crops to get potential mutants

 
Muhammad Usman, Ph.D.

Position & Department: Associate Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: To exploit plant molecular biology and chloroplast transformation tools for a) Gene expression profiling and development of transgenic crops resistant to different biotic and abiotic stresses, b) Genetic characterization of existing gene pool of fruit and vegetable crops and c) Using tissue culture tools for crop improvement

 
Summar A Naqvi Ph.D

Position & Department: Associate Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

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Shaista Karim

Position & Department: Lecturer, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

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Rashad Waseem Khan, Ph.D.

Position & Department: Associate Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

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Raheel Anwar Ph.D

Position & Department: Associate Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

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MUHAMMAD MUZAMMIL JAHANGIR Ph.D

Position & Department: Associate Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: processing and storage of agricultural products (vegetable crops especially mushrooms). His research interests focus on nutritional and biochemical profiling, diversity, varietal characterization, optimization of composting technology, harvesting and handling techniques, value added product development of wild grown, cultivated, local and exotic commercial, edible, medicinal and specialty mushrooms.

 
Muhammad Azam Ph.D

Position & Department: Associate Professor/Manager Research Operations, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Mainly, I am focusing on fruit production physiology and management through proper use of plant nutrition, plant protection, PGRs and harvesting techniques. I am also working on postharvest management to enhance the shelf life by using plant extracts, edible coatings, ecofriendly chemicals, plan growth substance, and proper handling and packaging practices to reduce the postharvest losses. In addition, I am also interested in abiotic stress management in horticulture commodities.

 
Mohsin Bashir Ph.D

Position & Department: Lecturer, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: floriculture and landscape

 
Mazhar Abbas, Ph.D.

Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Plant diseases are one of the major constraints to the horticultural crop production. The development of integrated approaches is therefore, one of the important strategies for the better control of diseases by reducing the use of hazardous chemicals. My current interests are focused on exploring the mechanism of systemic acquired resistance/ systemic induced resistance in horticultural crops particularly in citrus and vegetable crops. I am also interested in the study of seed storage behavior of horticultural crops with respect to conservation of plant genetic resources.

 
Faisal Shahzad

Position & Department: Lecturer, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

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Dr. Muhammad Awais Ghani

Position & Department: Associate Professor/Manager Research Operations, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: I am interested in polyploidy, interspecific hybridization and evolution. My work in Brassica has previously phenotypic, genetic and epigenetic in interspecific hybrids. I am interested in formation of new species in both evolutionary and breeding contexts, and in particular the mechanisms of polyploid formation and genome stabilization after polyploidization. I am also interested in molecular vegetable breeding and vegetable seed production.

 
Dr Muhammad Asif Rai

Position & Department: Assistant Professor/Assistant Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

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Ahsan Akram Ph.D

Position & Department: Assistant Professor/Assistant Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Aim is to combine the knowledge of commercial Floriculture to fulfill the following interests; Production, essential oil extraction and Value addition of aromatic flowers; Optimization and production potential of floricultural crops, nursery and greenhouse management; Post harvest physiology of flower Bulbs; Post harvest longevity of cut flowers, Turf management in landscape, Plant growth regulator, nutrient management, stomatal development, climate-change, CO2 sensing, Cytogenetic tools (FISH & GISH), Chromosome analysis and Hybridization of floriculture crops.

 

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