Area of Research
There are five main and broad research domains in the Department:
Research Projects
To strengthen the departmental facilities for research activities, the Department has carried out/carrying out various projects. These projects were/are obtained by faculty members on competitive bases from various national funding agencies. The details are as follows:
Sr. No. |
Titles of the Projects |
Amount (Million) |
Funding Agency |
Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Characterization of putative promoter elements in osRGLP2 promoter |
7.830 (Pak.Rupees) |
HEC |
Ongoing |
2 | Establishment of tissue culture protocol for local varieties of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik) to enable its genetic transformation in future |
4.524 (Pak.Rupees) |
HEC |
Ongoing |
3 | Isolation, purification and Monetary for the production of edible oil from wild olive |
5.988114 (Pak.Rupees) |
HEC |
Ongoing |
4 | Production of Ethanol and Butanol from agricultural waste |
4.285,020 (Pak.Rupees) |
HEC |
Ongoing |
5 | Extensively Drug-Resistant (XDR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Tehran and Rawalpindi: A comparative analysis of resistance to first line and second line anti-tuberculosis drugs based on microbiological and molecular approaches |
0.96105 (US $) |
EMRO-COMSTECH |
Ongoing |
6 | Mutator M. tuberculosis in Tehran and Rawalpindi: a comparative study on fingerprinting, mutator genes and antibiotic resistance genes of isolates |
1.241,476 (Pak.Rupees) |
EMRO-COMSTECH |
Ongoing |
7 | Prevalence of Non-Alcoholic |
1.753,963 (Pak.Rupees) |
PSF |
Ongoing |
8 | Determination of Biological Activities and Micro-propagation of Polygonum aplexicaulis: a popular medical plant of North Pakistan |
1.937 (US $) |
PSF |
Ongoing |
9 | Production of Biofuels from sweet sorghum. |
1.7 (Pak.Rupees) |
HEC |
Completed |
10 | Investigation of role of Germin-like proteins (Glps) during germination/early development by construction of rice plants engineered for sense and anti-sense expression of rice glps. |
2.41 (Pak.Rupees) |
ALP, PARC |
Completed |
11 | Study of polyphenol oxidase activity and its association with molecular markerss in different wheat genotypes |
3.789 (Pak.Rupees) |
HEC |
Completed |
12 | Tissue Culture and Genetic Transformation studies in Banana (Musa) for disease eradication/ Resistance. |
0.9 (Pak.Rupees) |
PSF |
Completed |
13 | Multiples Immunoassays for the detection of tuberculosis |
11.665325 (Pak.Rupees) |
HEC |
Completed |
14 | Cloning, over-expression of somatotropin and its use as a lactogenic agent in indigenous buffalo breeds. |
29.625 (Pak.Rupees) |
HEC |
Completed |
15 | Cloning of RG1 from Rat Skeletal Muscle. |
0.09 (Pak.Rupees) |
PMAS-AAUR |
Completed |
16 | Determination of antioxidant potential of Polygonum amplexicaule and its suitability for cosmetics. |
0.141 (Pak.Rupees) |
PMAS-AAUR |
Completed |
17 | Association of ApoE Polymorphism with local psoriasis vulgaris patients |
0.15 (Pak.Rupees) |
PMAS-AAUR |
Completed |
Conferences/workshops/seminars organized