Sugarcane Biofuels. Status, Potential, and Prospects of the Sweet Crop to Fuel the World.

Khan, Muhammad Tahir; Khan, Imtiaz Ahmed (Eds.)

ISBN 10: 3030185990 / ISBN 13: 9783030185992

Edité par Cham, Springer., 2019

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Titre : Sugarcane Biofuels. Status, Potential, and ...

Éditeur : Cham, Springer.

Date d'édition : 2019

Reliure : Couverture souple

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Reference resource on the top 10 sugarcane bioenergy producing countriesInternational panel of experts discuss sugarcane biofuel economy and technologiesUp-to-date reviews on sugarcane bioenergy sustainability and environmental impacts

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Muhammad Tahir Khan is serving as a scientist at Nuclear Institute of Agriculture, Tandojam, Pakistan. His group focuses on sugarcane breeding, targeting higher sucrose levels and biomass. He has extensively published regarding sugarcane improvement through biotechnology, and its importance as a sugar and energy source. He is author of many international and national publications, review articles and book chapters. His research also focusses on markers assisted selection of promising crop genotype. His major achievements include efficient molecular based screening procedures for various diseases of sugarcane, and reliable tissue culture protocols for in vitro mutagenesis at his institute. Earlier, He gained training from National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), a top-notch molecular biology institute of the country. He has also worked on various research projects at Saint Cloud State University, MN, USA. Moreover, he also won a grant for short term stay at a German research institute, in Jena.

Dr. Imtiaz Ahmed Khan has 30 years of research experience on sugarcane. He is currently serving as Deputy Chief Scientist at Nuclear Institute of Agriculture, Tandojam, Pakistan. He also serves as the member of Board of Governors of University of Science and Technology, Abbottabad. Moreover, he is working as resource person for Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, University of Sindh, Jamshoro and Centre for Molecular Genetics, Karachi University. His research interests include sugarcane breeding, induced somatic mutations, and molecular markers studies. Previously, he has been trained at University of Katowice, Poland, and CIRAD, France. He has already published more than 100 articles, four book chapters, and one book. His work has been highly cited by national and international authors. He has also presented his work in more than 50 national and international conferences. He also serves as member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Biology and Biotechnology and Pakistan Journal of Biotechnology, moreover, he is a referee of Pakistan Journal of Botany for the field of Tissue culture, Biotechnology and Genetics. He has been awarded gold medals by Pakistan Society of Sugar Technologist (PSST) in 2013 and 2018 and he is also recipient of Research Productivity Award from ministry of Science and Technology, Pakistan.