Recycling : Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

Zahoor Ahmad Sajid has research experience in the field of Plant Tissue Culture/Plant Stress Physiology/Biochemistry. His overall research focus is on to study the mechanism of salinity tolerance in agricultural crop and true halophytes (Thellungiella halophila,). Currently, he is evaluating the potential of different biomolecules (salicylic acid, ascorbic acid, proline, KH2PO4 etc.) against various stresses in different agronomically important crops (potato, pea, maize, etc.). Exogenous application of these biomolecules (pretreatment to plants/callus cultures before inoculation/added in medium) or foliar spray to pot-grown plants has shown to have reduced its effect substantially in plants. These biomolecules minimized the oxidative damage by increasing the amount of antioxidant enzymes (superoxide dismutase, catalase and peroxidase) that in turn reflected in better growth parameters of plants.