Maize Improvement

Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani is senior Assistant professor at Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Khudwani –192101, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, J&K, India. He received Ph.D. degree in plant breeding and genetics on “transgenic rice for abiotic stress tolerance” from the Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, India. After obtaining his Ph.D. he worked as research associate in the Biotechnology Laboratory, Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture (ICAR), Srinagar, India. He then joined the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Farm Science Centre) as program coordinator at Senapati, Manipur, India. He teaches courses related to plant breeding, seed science and technology, and stress breeding and has published more than 100 papers/chapters in journals and books of international and national repute. He served as guest editor and reviews editor for journal Frontier in Plant Science (2015-2018). He has also edited several books on current topics in crop improvement for abiotic stress tolerance published by Springer Nature and CRC press USA. His Ph.D. research fetched first prize in the North Zone Competition, at national level, in India. He was awarded  Young Scientist Award from the Society for Promotion of Plant Sciences, Jaipur, India, in 2009. He is a fellow of the Society for Plant Research, India. Recently he also received Young Scientist Award (Agriculture) 2015 from Society for Plant Research, Meerut, India. He also served as visiting Scientist at Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, USA under the UGC Raman Post Doctoral Fellowship programme. Currently, he is in charge of Wheat improvement programme at MRCFC Khudwani SKAUST Kashmir.

• 1. Maize Genome Genome diversity in Maize.- 2. Maize biodiversity: state of the art and future perspective for breeding.- 3. European maize landraces made accessible for plant breeding and genome-based studies.- 4.Maize genome analysis to elucidate evolution with time.- 5. QTL mapping for high temperature stress in Maize.- 6. QTL mapping advances for European Corn Borer Resistance in maize.- 7. GWAS for maize yield Improvement.- 8. Transcriptional Factor; a molecular switch to adapt Abiotic Stress mechanism in maize.- 9. Gene expression Divergence in Maize.- 10. Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Maize under Drought Stress.- 11. Fungal Pathogen Induced Modulation of Structural and Functional Proteins in Zea mays.- 12.Maize improvement using recent Omics approaches.- 13. Molecular Genetic Approaches to Maize Improvement..- 14. Genomic selection in maize improvement.- 15. Genetic engineering for improvement of qualitative and quantitative traits in Maize.- 16. Potential of phenomics in climate resilient maize breeding.- 17. Current Genomic Approaches for biotic stress tolerance in Maize.- 18. Genomics approaches for ascertaining Drought stress responses in Maize.- 19. Genotyping advances for Heat stress Tolerance in Maize.- 20. Biofortification in Maize through Marker Assisted Breeding.- 21. Molecular breeding approaches to improve NUE in Maize.- 22. Molecular breeding (QTL mapping) for Phosphorus Use Efficiency in Maize.- 23. Maize improvement for water use efficiency: Advances in Recent molecular marker technology.- 24. Genome editing Advances for Maize Improvement.