Luqman Safdar
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
School of Agriculture, Food and Wine
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
I am working under under a joint research program between the University of Adelaide, Australia and the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Before joining these two Universities, I worked as a research assistant at Quaid-i-Azam University and National Agricultural Research Center (both located in Islamabad, Pakistan). My research at these institutions was focused on studying phenotypic and genetic variations for mineral efficiency, metal uptake and toxicity, stay green, and yield related traits in spring wheat. In future, I am interested to study genetic/genomic based models for developing climate-resilient crops.
My research focuses on using an imaging technique, Near-infrared Spectroscopy (NIR), combined with a broad spectral camera (Hyper-spectral Imaging) to predict protein content of wheat. I will use this technique to screen and identify wheat varieties with high grain protein content. The project further involves studying the biochemical mechanism of protein deposition in the wheat grain.
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Research Interests
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Bioinformatics Biotechnology Crop and Pasture Physiology Developmental Genetics Dietetics and Nutrigenomics Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change Food Science Gene Expression Genetically Modified Field Crops and Pasture Genetically Modified Horticulture Plants Genetics Genetics & Heredity Genome Structure and Regulation Genomics Horticultural Crop Improvement Medical Genetics Medical Virology Nanobiotechnology Nutrition and Dietetics Oncology and Carcinogenesis Plant Biology Plant Cell and Molecular Biology Plant Developmental and Reproductive Biology Plant Pathology Plant Physiology Reproductive Biology Signal Transduction
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