PhD Student (Split-Site Commonwealth Scholar)
I spent a year as post-graduate researcher at Borrill Lab, University of Birmingham. Here, I worked in project focused on senescence-associated nitrogen metabolism in wheat. This project aimed to understand genes that are involved in nitrogen remobilization from senescing flag leaves into the developing grain in wheat.
Before this fellowship, I spent a semester at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), University of Florida, USA where I focused on cereal transformation and tissue culture.
In my Ph.D., I am carrying out a research project entitled “Wheat-Omics to Decipher Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) in Hexaploid Bread Wheat for Yield Maximization” at Quaid-i-Azam University and National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, Pakistan. I also did an internship on “Plant Tissue Culture” at National Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology (NIGAB), Islamabad, Pakistan.
Key Publications
Andleeb, T., Shah, T., Nawaz, R., Munir, I., Munsif, F., & Jalal, A. (2020). QTL Mapping for Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants. Salt and Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, 383. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40277-8_16
Nawaz, R., Ali, Z., Andleeb, T., & Qureshi, U. M. (2020). Special Anatomical Features of Halophytes: Implication for Salt Tolerance. Salt and Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, 119. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40277-8_5
Mahmood, Z., Aziz, A., Andleeb, T., Tanveer, S. K., Waqar, S., Qamar, M., … & Quraishi, U. M. (2020). Screening of Resynthesized Hexaploid Wheats for Durable Rust Resistance. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology, 24(3), 621-630. https://doi.org/10.17957/IJAB/15.1479 (forthcoming)
Safdar, L. B., Andleeb, T., Latif, S., Umer, M. J., Tang, M., Li, X., … & Quraishi, U. M. (2020). Genome-wide association study and QTL meta-analysis identified novel genomic loci controlling potassium use efficiency and agronomic traits in bread wheat. Frontiers in plant science, 11, 70. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00070
Shah, T., Andleeb, T., Lateef, S., & Noor, M. A. (2018). Genome editing in plants: advancing crop transformation and overview of tools. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 131, 12-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2018.05.009
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