Muhammad Abu Bakar Zia

• Ph.D.
• PhD at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi

Neglected crops, which are generally not focused on the current and commercialized form of agriculture, have the potential to offer solutions to issues related to food security and malnutrition as well as sustainable farming. The study aims to identify the needs, opportunities, and potential hindrances of these crops based on the contribution they...

Vegetables, which contain minerals and vitamins, are a major source of nutrition for humans, and are negatively impacted by a variety of abiotic stresses, particularly drought. This is a constraint that must be overcome to avoid yield losses while maintaining nutritional and global food security. Generation of drought tolerant vegetable varieties i...

Worldwide wheat productivity faces limitations due to environmental stresses, of which drought is a key factor, necessitating effective nutrient management strategies such as potassium (K) application to enhance stress tolerance and yield stability. Field experiments were conducted during the 2022-23 growing season to analyze the response of differ...

Drought stress poses a critical threat to global crop yields and sustainable agriculture. The GASA genes are recognized for their pivotal role in stress tolerance and plant growth, but little is known about how they function in sunflowers. The investigation aimed to identify and elucidate the role of HaGASA genes in conferring sunflowers with droug...

This paper explores the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in mitigating drought-related losses in agriculture. Drought poses a significant threat to global food security, necessitating innovative solutions to enhance agricul- tural resilience. AI technologies, including predictive analytics, precision farming,...

The topics covered in our book include the relationship of wheat, which meets 21% of human protein needs, with environmental and abiotic factors; protein and quality characteristics in some annual plants belonging to different families; protein in corn and sorghum; grasshoppers as an alternative protein source; the unveiling of the potential in alt...

History reveals, agriculture is continuously facing a diverse number of stresses and variable conditions that are regularly disturbing the agricultural yield as well as food sector development. A prominent example is fluctuations of climate and forecast in influencing soil nutrient efficiency in agriculture sustainability. Statistical data signific...

Potato variety development entails a number of breeding steps, as well as testing and, finally, commercialization. Historically, phenotypic assesment were carried out to select and germplasm development. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded the Solanaceae Coordinated Agricultural Project (SolCAP) to decode genomic resources into tools tha...

Potato is grown in more than 150 countries all around the world, and total production reached up to 359.1 million tons. It has a high nutrient quality that its tuber contains carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, and essential amino acids. Due to its wide range of uses as a crop for food, feed, and industrial raw materials as well as its recommendatio...

Abiotic stress is an environmental constraint that negatively influences the growth of legumes. Additionally, it is predicted that in the future, it will have devastating effects on the growth and yield of crops. Therefore, currently most of the studies are being conducted to observe the response of legume crops to ensure food for future generation...

There is a significant interest while utilizing association mapping technique to determine the genes which are accountable for numerical dissimilarity of the more complex characteristics with agronomic and evolutionary significance. Recently improvements have been made in genomic technology, which motivates for the exploitation of natural diversity...

The world is witnessing a simultaneous problem of climate change and rapid increase in population. Climate change is becoming a big threat to agriculture production system, and it is believed that it will become more and more adverse in coming years. Under these circumstances, plants are combating various environmental stresses they never faced bef...

There is a significant interest while utilizing association mapping technique to determine the genes which are accountable for numerical dissimilarity of the more complex characteristics with agronomic and evolutionary significance. Recently improvements have been made in genomic technology, which motivates for the exploitation of natural diversity...

Potato is an important noncereal staple crop serving as a source of food for a large number of the world’s population. Genomewide association study (GWAS) analysis has become a useful tool to uncover the genetic basis of important plant traits by revealing significant association with the trait of interest. The present study aimed to explore the ph...

Transcription factors are regulatory proteins known to modulate gene expression. These are the critical component of signaling pathways and help in mitigating various developmental and stress responses. Among them, bZIP, BBR, and BZR transcription factor families are well known to play a crucial role in regulating growth, development, and defense r...

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is an annual dicotyledonous tuber crop originating from the Americas and now distributed all over the world. A member of the Solanaceae family, potato is the fourth most produced food crop and the first non-cereal crop in the world. Potato is a staple food with its high potentiality in fighting malnutrition in the worl...

Potato is one of the most important food crops all over the world. Breeding activities for this crop are mainly aimed to improve the quality and yield of tuber. However, genetic architecture of various traits contributing to the quality and yield of potato are not yet completely understood. Genome wide association studies provides a broader way to...

Till 2050, we will have to feed the 9 billion people with decreasing natural resources. Here, we connect the global food demand for future with the aspect of food science and agriculture in producing food to feed global population. Agriculture and food systems challenges including both crop and livestock production have presented in terms of global...

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is a multipurpose crop of dry land yielding very high quality of edible oil. Present study was aimed to investigate the genetic diversity and population structure of 131 safflower accessions originating from 28 different countries using 13 iPBS-retrotransposon markers. A total of 295 iPBS bands were observed amon...

Transcription factors are involved in the regulation of transcriptional reprogramming associated with the plants stress responses. Large number of transcriptional factors has been identified so far, which are involved in defense responses in plants against certain biotic and abiotic stresses. These transcription factors are divided according to the...

Mutation breeding is a resolute application of mutations to develop the desired characteristics in crops to get increased yield. Since the first release of mutant potato cultivar in Belgium in 1968, mutation breeding in potato found a niche in plant breeding because of the increased quality and yield improvements. Six mutated potato cultivars have...

Potato is the world's number one non-grain commodity and ranks at fourth position after maize, rice and wheat. As a species, potato is very docile to cell culture, it also contains an extended history of applications in the field of biotechnology for the improvement of crops. The genomic insurgency from the recent past has significantly enhanced th...

Transgenic Bt crops were planted on an area of approximately 45 million hectares in combination with herbicide resistance trait in recent years. The available scientific literature does not show any concrete evidence of cry gene exhibiting resistance against sucking pest particularly in commercialized crops. Therefore, the common crop protection pr...

The study presents first report of Agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation in Rice paddy herb (Linmophila aromatica). A. tumefaciens strain C58C1 harboring pBin19 Plasmid containing β-glucuronidase (GUS) and neomycin phosphotransferase II (nptII) gene, under the control of 35S promoter and NOS terminator was used. Shoot tip explants were inoc...

Water hyssop (Bacopa monnieri L.) is an important medicinal plant due to its active compounds. The plant is also used in ornamental aquaria mainly due to its appearance and adaptability. With the advent of Genetic Engineering and plant transformation technologies, it has been possible to modify plants genetically. We aim to exploit the potential of...

With the introduction of GM technology, plantation of GM crops has reached to 181.5 million hectares in 2014. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is most important source of insect resistant genes. Genes from B. thuringiensis have been widely used against larvae of lepidoptera, coleoptera and diptera. Turkey is a major trader of oriental tobacco on worl...

With the introduction of GM technology, plantation of GM crops has reached to 181.5 million hectares in 2014. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is most important source of insect resistant genes. Genes from B. thuringiensis have been widely used against larvae of lepidoptera, coleoptera and diptera. Turkey is a major trader of oriental tobacco on world m...

Transgenic Bt crops were planted on an area of 45 million hectares in combination with herbicide resistance trait in 2013 globally. The available scientific literature does not show any concrete evidence of cry gene exhibiting resistance against sucking pest particularly in commercialized crops. Therefore, the common crop protection practice agains...

This study was conducted to evaluate the growth and yield response of different wheat varieties sown on different dates. Five wheat varieties viz. Sahar-2006 (SH-06), Faisalabad-2008 (FSD-08), Lassani-2008 (LS-08), Abdul Staar-2002 (AS-02) and Triple Dwarf-1 (TD-1) were sown, at fortnightly interval, on 25th Oct, 10 and 25th Nov, and 10th and 25th...

Five wheat cultivars differing in tillering capacity and stature, Sahar-2006 (SH-06) (tall and low tillering), Faisalabad-2008 (FSD-08) (tall and low tillering), Lassani- 2008 (LS-08) (medium stature and low tillering), Abdulstar-2002 (AS-02) (medium stature and high tillering) and Triple dwarf-1 (TD-1) (dwarf and low tillering), were planted in 10...

Five wheat cultivars differing in tillering capacity and stature, Sahar-2006 (SH-06) (tall and low tillering), Faisalabad-2008 (FSD-08) (tall and low tillering), Lassani-2008 (LS-08) (medium stature and low tillering), Abdulstar-2002 (AS-02) (medium stature and high tillering) and Triple dwarf-1 (TD-1) (dwarf and low tillering), were planted in 10-...

This study was conducted to evaluate the growth and yield response of different wheat varieties sown on different dates. Five wheat varieti s viz. Sahar-2006 (SH-06), Faisalabad-2008 (FSD-08), Lassani-2008 (LS-08), Abdul Staar-2002 (AS-02) and Triple Dwarf-1 (TD-1) were sown, at fortnightly interval, on 25th Oct, 10 and 25th Nov, and 10th and 25th...

This study was conducted to evaluate the growth and yield response of different wheat varieties sown on different dates. Five wheat varieties viz. Sahar-2006 (SH-06), Faisalabad-2008 (FSD-08), Lassani-2008 (LS-08), Abdul Staar-2002 (AS-02) and Triple Dwarf-1 (TD-1) were sown, at fortnightly interval, on 25th Oct, 10 and 25th Nov, and 10th and 25th...