Rizwana Maqbool
University of Agriculture, Pakistan
Biography
Rizwana Maqbool is serving as a wheat geneticist and breeder in the department of plant breeding and genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. Her doctoral research was composed of both basic and applied objectives to achieve a balanced expertise in the field of crop sciences from Washington State University, Pullman, USA. Her scientific background is very diverse, with training in genetics, genomics, molecular biology, plant breeding, bioinformatics, and microscopy. Her research is based on the identification and characterization of tiller gene in wheat. She mapped and cloned an important gene regulating tiller and spikelet number of wheat for the first time. This gene will play an important role in the development of climate resilient wheat particularly focusing heat and drought aspects.
Abstract
Abstract : Identification and characterization of a gene controlling tiller trait of wheat