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Amjad M. Husaini

Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, University of Oxford, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Jamia Hamdard

ORCID iD 0000-0003-1293-3118
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Dr. Amjad Masood Husaini is an Agricultural Biotechnologist who is currently Team Leader of Genome Engineering and Societal Biotechnology Lab, Division of Plant Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, J&K (India). He has been a visiting Scientist to Sustainable Agricultural Systems Lab, USDA, Maryland (USA) and Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford (UK). He holds a PhD in Biotechnology and PG Diploma in Bioinformatics (Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi), besides certificates in Intellectual Property Rights (Indian Law Institute, New Delhi) and Remote Sensing Applications in Agriculture (IARI-ISRO).
Dr. Husaini has significantly contributed to Translational Sciences by developing stress tolerant Strawberry using transgenic approach. He is a co-breeder of three blast resistant high yielding cold tolerant rice varieties released by SKUAST-K as Shalimar Rice-2, 3 and 4. He is a co-breeder of two cold tolerant rice CMS lines (SKAU 7A and 11A) and has significantly contributed to the genetic purification of a local aromatic rice landrace ‘Mushk budji’ which was released by SKUAST-K for commercialization under Public-Private Partnership mode in 2014, and was a huge success. He has contributed significantly towards Saffron R&D, especially towards its introduction in newer areas, organic production technologies and adulteration problems.
Dr. Husaini has edited five books entitled “Saffron”, “Medicinal Plants of the Himalayas: Advances and Insights”, “Genomics, Transgenics, Molecular Breeding and Biotechnology of Strawberry”, “Molecular Biotechnology: Basic Laboratory Protocols”, “Strawberry: Growth Development and Diseases” and published about 97 papers in journals of International repute.
He is recipient of awards like Scientist of the Year Award-2017 (NESA), DBT-CREST Award-2012 (Ministry of S&T), International Training Award-2013 (NAIP-ICAR), Summer Research Fellowship-2013 (IASc-INSA-NASI), Young Scientist Award-2009 in Agriculture (J&K Council for S&T), Jawahar Lal Nehru Award for Outstanding Agricultural Research-2008 (ICAR), Junior Scientist of the Year Award-2007 (NESA), and his biography was included in 27th edition of Marquis Who’s Who in the World. He is also listed among the Indian Muslim Legends http://indianmuslimlegends.blogspot.in/2011/07/170-dr-amjad-masood-husaini.html at serial number 170.

Employment

  • Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir Professor
    2007 - Present

Education

  • University of Oxford Post Doc
    2015 - 2016
  • USDA Agricultural Research Service PDF
    2013 - 2013
  • Jamia Hamdard Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics
    2005 - 2006
  • Jamia Hamdard PhD
    2003 - 2007
  • Dr Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry MSc
    2000 - 2002
  • Sher-E-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology Kashmir BSc Agriculture
    1995 - 1999

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Publications (114)