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Dr. Allah Bakhsh

Associate Professor (TTS) Seed Biotechnology Lab

Leads CEMB's cotton breeding programme, developing climate-resilient, insect-resistant cotton varieties through transgenic and genome-editing technologies.

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Associate Professor (TTS)CEMB · University of the Punjab
100+Peer-reviewed articles published
11Years of international academic experience

Profile

Plant Biotechnologist, Cotton Breeder and Educator

Dr. Allah Bakhsh leads the cotton breeding programme at CEMB, focused on developing climate-resilient cotton varieties through conventional and non-conventional approaches. With over 100 peer-reviewed articles published, he has also edited the book Potato Production Worldwide.

He serves as editor for SCI-indexed journals including PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Plant Sciences, Frontiers in Genetics and the Journal of Cotton Research. Through plant transformation technologies, he has developed insect-resistant cotton varieties expressing the Bacillus thuringiensis cry gene, and is engaged in RNA interference and genome-editing technologies to combat insect pests and disease.

Following his PhD from the University of the Punjab in 2010, he worked internationally at the University of Ankara (Turkey), the University of Bologna (Italy) and Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University (Turkey) over an 11-year period. He is now Group Lead of the Seed Biotechnology laboratories at CEMB.

Selected contributions

Science translated into capability

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Cotton breeding leadership

Leads the cotton breeding programme at CEMB, developing climate-resilient varieties.

02

Insect-resistant cotton

Developed cry-gene insect-resistant cotton varieties through plant transformation technology.

03

Editorial service

Serves as editor for PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Plant Sciences, Frontiers in Genetics and the Journal of Cotton Research.

04

International academic career

Held positions at the University of Ankara, University of Bologna and Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University over 11 years.

Research output

Selected publications

A selection of publications listed on the official CEMB faculty profile.

  1. 01
    2023 · Trends in Plant Sciences

    CRISPR/Cas-mediated plant genome editing: outstanding challenges a decade after implementation

  2. 02
    2023 · Acta Physiologiae Plantarum

    CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in diploid and tetraploid potatoes

  3. 03
    2023 · Molecular Biology Reports

    Identification and characterization of RNA Polymerase II (RNAP) C-Terminal Domain Phosphatase-like 3 (SlCPL3) in tomato under biotic stress

  4. 04
    2023 · Functional and Integrative Genomics

    Developing future heat-resilient vegetable crops

  5. 05
    2022 · In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology Plant

    Establishment of highly efficient and reproducible Agrobacterium mediated transformation system for tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum L.)

  6. 06
    2022 · Planta

    CRISPR/Cas-mediated knockdown of vacuolar invertase gene expression lowers the cold-induced sweetening in potatoes

  7. 07
    2022 · Molecular Biology Reports

    Heterologous expression of cry1Ia12 insecticidal gene in cotton encodes resistance against pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella

  8. 08
    2022 · Frontiers in Genetics

    Innovation in the breeding of common bean through a combined approach of in vitro regeneration and machine learning algorithms

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