Climate-Resilient Crops

Muhammad Tehseen Azhar is working as Associate Professor at the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. His primary responsibility is teaching graduate and postgraduate classes. In addition, his focus is the screening and development of segregating populations, resulting in the development of several lines of cotton with higher yield and improved fiber quality traits. Dr. Azhar has a specific interest in the development of cotton germplasm with tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses.

Zulfiqar Ali is a Professor at the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Prof. Ali completed his PhD from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, and postdoctoral studies from the Plant Breeding Institute at the University of Sydney and Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences Nanjing.

Muhammad Azam Khan is working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He is primarily engaged in the teaching and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students. He studied genetics and genomics of host plant resistance to fungal diseases in his PhD.