Dr Abdul Munim Farooq

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Dr. Abdul Munim Farooq

Assistant Professor

Seed Biotechnology Lab
e-mail: a.munim@cemb.edu.pk

Dr. Abdul Munim Farooq is serving as Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB) Lahore. As Plant Breeder and molecular biologist, he has developed genetically modified commercial crops with local resources in Pakistan. His research focuses on plant transformation for different biotic/abiotic stresses, such as Insect, Herbicide tolerance, drought and heat stress. It involves identifying and characterizing molecular function of individual genes using combination of biotechnological tools and employing several approaches such as development and characterization of transgenic crops, tolerant or sensitive to these stresses. He has developed 16 Maize inbred lines. He has developed technology for Agrobacterium mediated transformation in local maize lines first time in the country. He has developed transgenic maize lines resistant to insect, herbicide frost, heat and drought. He has developed two high yielding transgenic Maize F1 hybrids. Patents on Maize and sugarcane are in process.
He started his research work by developing inbred lines and F1 hybrids in chilies. He has developed twenty four inbred lines of tomato. He has developed haploid and diploid tomato lines through anther culture. He has developed high yielding double cross hybrids in tomato. He worked on In-vitro Development of cucumber, cauliflower synthetic seeds, transformation of sugarcane for various biotic and abiotic stresses. He is team member for GMO testing, DNA fingerprinting and CEMB agriculture commercialization. He has trained and supervised number of BSc(Hons), MS, M.phil and PhD students.

Area(s) of Research:

Plant Tissue Culture, Plant Biotechnology, Plant Genetics, Plant Breeding, DNA Sequencing, Phylogenetic Analysis, DNA, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Biology

Selected Publications:

  1. Bushra, T., Nasir, I. A. Farooq, A. M., Rahman, Z. and Husnain, T. (2010). Viability assessment of in-vitro produced synthetic seeds of cucumber. African Journal of Biotechnology. 9 (28):7026-7032.
  2. Jamal, A., Nasir, I. A., Tabassum, B., Tariq, M., Farooq, A. M., Qamar, Z., Khan, M. A., Ahmad, N., Shafiq, M., Haider, M. S., Javed, M.A., and Husnain, T. (2012). Molecular characterization of capsid protein gene of potato virus X from Pakistan. African Journal of Biotechnology. 11(74): 13854-13857.
  3. Farooq, A. M., Nasir, I. A., Tabassum, B., Tariq, M., Qamar, Z., Khan, M. A., Ahmad, N., Haider, M. S., Anwar, W., Javed, M.A., and Husnain, T. (2012). Development and comparative studies of double cross tomato hybrids. African Journal of Agricultural Research. 7 (37):5259-5264.
  4. Farooq, A. M., Nasir, I. A., Bushra, T., Javed, M. A and Husnain, T. (2010). Androgenesis induction, Callogenesis, Regeneration and Cytogenetic studies of tomato haploid. Journal of Agri. Research. 48 (4):457-470.
  5. Nasir, I. A.,Tabassum, B., Qamar, Z., Javed, M. A., Tariq, M., Farooq, A. M., Butt, S. J., Qayyum, A., Husnain, T., (2014). Herbicide-tolerant sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) plants: an unconventional method of weed removal. Turk J Biol 38: 439-449. (1.343)
  6. Sajed Ali, Idrees Ahmad Nasir, Arfan Ali, Usman Aslam, Abdul Munim Farooq, Muhammad Tariq, Bushra Tabassum, Zahida Qamar, Abdul Qayyum Rao and Tayyab Hussnain (2014) Genetic variability in coat protein gene of sugarcane mosaic virus in Pakistan and its relationship to other strains. African Journal of Biotechnology.13 (39): 3950-3965.
  7. Qamar, Z., Aaliya, k., Nasir,I. A., Farooq, A. M.,Tabassum, B., Ali, Q., Ali, A., Awan, M. F., Tariq, M., and Husnain, T. (2015). An overview of genetic transformation of glyphosate resistant gene in Zea mays. Nature and Science 2015;13(3)
  8. Aaliya, k., Qamar, Z.,Nasir,I. A., ALI, Q., Farooq, A. M.and Husnain, T. (2016). Transformation, Evaluation of GTGene and Multivariate Genetic Analysis for Morpho-Physiological and YieldAttributing Traits in Zea mays. GENETIKA, 48(1):423-443.
  9. Farooq AM, Nasir IA, Ali Q, Tabassum B AND Husnain T. (2017). Identification And Interrelationship Of Yield Related Traits Through DNA Fingerprinting In Zea Mays. IJBPAS, 6(6): 1276-1303.Publications 8
  10. Saleem M, Farooq AM, Nasir IA, Ali Q AND Husnain T. (2017). Cold Tolerance of Plant Antifreeze Proteins: A Review. IJBPAS, 6(6): 1262-1275.
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