Dr. QASIM ALI

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Brief Statement of research work

Recent abrupt changes in the global environment in parallel with fast increase in human population, created a problem of food insecurity. Furthermore, the adverse environmental conditions, including drought and salinity along with sudden increases in temperature, not only have negatively affected the crop yield but also its seed/fruit nutritional quality along with abruptly changing global temperature. These are being tackled through different means including ion, breeding, genetic engineering as well as exogenous use of organic and inorganic chemicals through different modes. Breeding for better yield with improved nutritional quality is the one such mechanism under changing environmental scenarios. In this regard some successful efforts have been found fruitful. So, in future further studies are in consideration to find out the different ways as well as molecular aspects of such changes that contribute to the improvement of nutritional quality during seed/fruit development under stress.