MOLECULAR BREEDING IN WHEAT, MAIZE AND SORGHUM : STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE AND YIELD

Mobashwer Alam is a Senior Research Fellow and a theme leader of Predictive Agriculture for Improved Productivity and Value at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, UQ. He is the team leader of the QAAFI's National Passionfruit Breeding and Evaluation Program (PF22000). He has more than twenty-two years of experience in multi-disciplinary research, including plant breeding, quantitative genetics, genomics, plant physiology, and crop modelling. He is interested in developing rapid breeding tools and utilizing plant genomics in horticultural crop improvement.

Dr Shabir Hussain Wani is Assistant Professor, Genetics and Plant Breeding at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir, India. He has published more than 300 papers/chapters in journals and books of international and national repute. He is involved as Principal breeder for wheat variety Shalimar wheat 3 released in the year 2023 and associated as Co breeder for more than 10 crop varieties. He is Principal Investigator for JKDST funded research project on wheat molecular breeding for stripe rust resistance. He is also Co-PI for several research projects funded by DBT, DST and other funding agencies. Has been actively involved in teaching of important UG & PG courses on Genetics and Biotechnology since the year 2013. Currently, he is working as Scientist in the All India Coordinated Research Project on Seed (Crops) at SKUAST K, Shalimar.