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Renu munjal

Country: India

Institution: CCS Haryana Agricultural University

Dr. Renu Munjal is coordinating wheat physiology experiments under “All India Coordinated Wheat Improvement Programme” for 23 years. She contributed to the development of seven bread wheat varieties and four durum wheat varieties as Physiologist and is associated with evaluation of thousands of wheat lines for drought and heat tolerance under confined field and controlled environments.

Projects:

  • “Combining rust resistance with non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) in wheat to achieve food security” (in collaboration with The University of Sydney, Australia)

  • ”Scaling breeding and agronomic management for increasing wheat productivity and adaptation to climate change causing rising temperatures and water scarcity in South Asia ”  

NARIMAN SALIH AHMAD

Country: Kurdistan of Iraq

Institution: University of Sulaimania

Nariman Ahmad is working at the University of Sulaimani in Kurdistan of Iraq, a region where many wild wheat species can be found. He currently leads a project of assessing genetic relation for different ploidy levels of Aegilops and wild Triticum species in Kurdistan region. It aims to identify the extend of gene pool for wheat wild relative species and facilitate the introgression of stress tolerance alleles into the domesticated wheat cultivars. 

Mohd. Kamran Khan

Country: Turkiye

Institution: Selcuk University

Mohd. Kamran KHAN currently leads a TUBITAK funded 1001 project (see below). The project aims to identify wheat wild relatives (WWRs) and neglected wheat species (NWS) tolerant to combined drought and salinity stress. He is interested in identifying genes that may be involved in combined drought and salinity stress tolerance and functionally characterize them in transgenic Arabidopsis plants.

Projects:

  • Identifying resilient genetic resources to broaden the wheat gene pool for combined drought and salinity stress adaptation

Anamika Pandey

Country: Turkiye

Institution: Selcuk University

Dr. Anamika Pandey led a TUBITAK 1001 project aimed to identify boron toxicity tolerant genotypes and genes of different wheat species. Her current research focuses on identifying the novel genes and transcriptional factors in wild wheat species that are responsible for making them tolerant towards different abiotic stress conditions especially boron toxicity.

Projects:

  • Identification of Boron Toxicity Tolerance related Genes of some species of Poaceae Family and their Functional Characterization in Arabidopsis thaliana

Muhammad Ishaq

Country: Pakistan

Institution: Barani Agricultural Research Station

In order to develop new varieties of climatic resilient nature, Muhammad Ishaq and his team  consistently evaluate /screen germplasm under water limited /rainfed conditions, irrespective of variable weather pattern (Early season, mid-season and late season stress (drought &heat) and are used to identify genotypes with better performance and adaptation.  To achieve this, our team uses extensive and consistent field based phenotyping approach to evaluate wheat germplasm and select those which perform better under contrasting Environments (Irrigated vs Rainfed), over years, across locations, maintain its grain weight and yield under stress conditions.   

Projects:

  • Development of new high yielding and climatic resilient wheat genotypes for water limited, drought/rainfed production system and Early Generation Seed Production of newly released varieties (under Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) “Productivity Enhancement of Wheat”)