Dr. Mohammad Sayyar Khan Kazi

Education

PhD

Area of Specialization

Plant Biotechnology

Professional Responsibilities

Teaching and Research.

Research Projects

• Title of the proposed project: Environmental risk assessment studies for the potential production of transgenic oilseed rape lines with enhanced disease resistance.
  Total funds requested/Status: 0.5 million. Completed
  Funding agency: Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Science and Technology (DOST)
• Title of the proposed project: Genetic Engineering of sugarcane with the rice tonoplast H+-PPase gene to improve sucrose content and salt tolerance.
  Total funds requested/Status: 2.5 million. Running
  Funding agency: Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF)
• Title of the proposed project: Environmental Biosafety Assessment on Transgenic Oil Seed Rape Lines harboring the Synthetic Chitinase Gene (NiC) Conferring Fungal Disease Resistance
  Total funds requested/status: US$ 10,000. Running
  Funding Agency: Center for Environmental Risk Assessment (CERA)/ILSI Research Foundation (United States) under "The Biosafety Research in Pakistan Grants Program" (BRPGP).
• Title of the proposed project: Production of fungal disease resistance in strawberry through genetic engineering with the antifungal synthetic chitinase gene
  Total funds requested/status: 0.5 million. Under review
  Funding agency: Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Science and Technology (DOST)

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