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Dr Abdul Rehman

Dr Abdul Rehman

Associate Professor/DOO

Area of Interest: Plant Genetics, Epigenetics and Genetic Resource Management

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Academics / Degrees

  • PhD Plant Genetics, Université Paris Sud-11, Orsay, France. 2013
  • Master 2 Genomics and crop productivity (2009)
  • M.Sc (Hons.) (2006-2008)
  • B.Sc (Hons.) Agriculture (2002-2006)

Profile / Bio

Professional and Research Experience
  • Jan. 2014 to continued: Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Awards

  • Scholarship Awarded for MS leading to Ph.D. by HEC, Pakistan.
  • 1st position in Master from Université de Paris Diderot, Paris, France.
  • 3rd position in B.Sc (Hons) Agriculture from Bahauddin Zikriya University, Multan

Journal Publications

1. Zahid Ahmad Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=491" title="Dr. Yasar Sajjad">Y.Sajjad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=131" title="Dr. Raza Ahmad">R.Ahmad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=114" title="Dr. Muhammad Bilal">M.Bilal</a>,Aiman Saleem,Hifza Imtiaz Azacytidine Induced Epigenetic Variations Improve Fruit Quality and Yield in Tomato Grown under Soil Conditions, Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2024
2. Hifza Imtiaz,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=491" title="Dr. Yasar Sajjad">Y.Sajjad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=130" title="Dr. Amjad Hassan">A.Hassan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=134" title="Dr. Sabaz Ali Khan">S.A.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5852" title="Ghazal Khurshid">Khurshid.G</a> Insight into physiological and biochemical markersagainst formaldehyde stress in spider plant (Chlorophytum comosumL.), Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2024
3. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=131" title="Dr. Raza Ahmad">R.Ahmad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5852" title="Ghazal Khurshid">Khurshid.G</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=737" title="Dr. Iftikhar Zeb">Iftikhar Zeb</a> Stimulatory effects of smoke solution and biogas digestate slurry application on photosynthesis, growth, and methylation profiling of solanum tuberosum, Plant Signaling & Behavior, 2024
4. Taimoor Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=491" title="Dr. Yasar Sajjad">Y.Sajjad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=130" title="Dr. Amjad Hassan">A.Hassan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=134" title="Dr. Sabaz Ali Khan">S.A.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a> Evaluating the antioxidative defense response of selected indoor plants against benzene and formaldehyde, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023
5. Muhammad Sabar,Shahzad Amir Naveed,Muhammad Arif,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Muhammad Musaddiq Shah,Tahir Awan Introgression of Drought Tolerance into Elite Basmati Rice Variety through Marker-Assisted Backcrossing, Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, 2023
6. Kashif Aslam,Sajid Fiaz,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Shahzad Amir Naveed Identification of QTLs for rice grain size and weight by high-throughput SNP markers in the IR64 x Sadri population, Frontiers in Genetics, 2022
7. MuhammadImran,Tousif Hussain,Muhammad Asif Naeem,Abdullah A.Al-Kahtani,Ghulam MustafaShah,Sajjad Ahmad,Amjad Farooq,Muhammad Rizwan,Abdul Majeed,Shafaqat Ali,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal Effective sequestration of Congo red dye with ZnO/cotton stalks biochar nanocomposite: modeling, reusability and stability, Journal of Saudi Chemical Society, 2021
8. Zainab Rehman,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=717" title="Dr. Ayesha Baig">A. Baig</a>,Ghulam Shabir,Kashif Aslam,Muhammad Shahzad,Sidra Rehman,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a> Drought Stress Induces Differential DNA Methylation Shift at Symmetric and Asymmetric Cytosine Sites in the Promoter Region of ZmEXPB2 Gene in Maize, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE & BIOLOGY, 2021
9. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a> Anti‐bacterial and wound healing-promoting effects of zinc ferrite nanoparticles, Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2021
10. Muhammad Hanif,Shahid Shah,Nasir Rasool,Malik Saadullah,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>, Waqar Siddique,Bushra Nasir,Akhtar Rasul, Ghulam Abbas,Sajid Mehmood Khan,Muhammad Masood Ahmed Development and Characterization of Novel Pectin Rafts for the Delivery of Ibandronate, Bioinspired, Biomimetic and Nanobiomaterials, 2020
11. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=136" title="Dr. Sarfraz Shafiq">S.Shafiq</a>,Asim Ali,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=491" title="Dr. Yasar Sajjad">Y.Sajjad</a>,Qudsia Zeb,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=123" title="Dr. Muhammad Shahzad (ES)">M. Shahzad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=380" title="Dr. Rashid Nazir">R.Nazir</a>,Emilie Widemann The Interplay between Toxic and Essential Metals for Their Uptake and Translocation Is Likely Governed by DNA Methylation and Histone Deacetylation in Maize, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020
12. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Mathieu Thomas,Isabelle Goldringer Management practices and breeding history of varieties strongly determine the fine genetic structure of crop populations: A case study based on European wheat populations, Sustainability, 2020
13. Ghulam Shabir,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,Kashif Aslam Photoperiodic Stress induces genotype-specific shift in DNA methylation in Tartary Buckwheat., Biologia Futura, 2019
14. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,Ghulam Shabir,Kashif Aslam Evaluation of Sequence Related Amplified Polymorphic Markers for genetic characterization of Mentha species from Pakistan, Philippine Journal of Crop Science, 2019
15. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=123" title="Dr. Muhammad Shahzad (ES)">M. Shahzad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,Ghulam Shabir,Kashif Aslam Salt Stress Induces Genotype-specific DNA Hypomethylation in ZmEXPB2 and ZmXET1 Genes in Maize, Cereal Research Communications, 2019
16. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a> Comparative Analysis of Genomic Variation and Population Structure of Rice (Oryza sativa L.), International Journal of Agriculture and Biology , 2019
17. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,Ghulam Shabir,Kashif Aslam,Sumaira Rasul,Hamid Manzoo An Overview of the Genetics of Plant Response to Salt Stress: Present Status and the Way Forward, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2018
18. Kashif Aslam,Muhammad Shahid,Hamid Manzoor,Sibgha Noreen,Mueen Alam Khan,Muhammad Baber,Muhammad Sabar,Muhammad Arif,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Ghulam Shabir Rice Molecular Markers and Genetic Mapping: Current Status and Prospects, Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2017
19. Sara Khan,Habiba Zaffar,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=117" title="Dr. Syed Tatheer Alam Naqvi">S.Naqvi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=131" title="Dr. Raza Ahmad">R.Ahmad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=138" title="Dr. M. Maroof Shah">M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=114" title="Dr. Muhammad Bilal">M.Bilal</a>,Dr. Mazhar Iqbal,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=139" title="Dr. Usman Irshad">U.Irshad</a> Biodegradation of Malathion by Bacillus licheniformis strain ML-1, Archives of Biological Sciences, 2016
20. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,GHULAM SHABIR,BILAL HAIDER ABBASI,ZABTA KHAN SHINWARI,MUHAMMAD ARIF,KASHIF ASLAM POPULATION STRUCTURE AND DIVERSITY OF THE AA GENOME OF RICE BASED ON SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEATS VARIATION IN ORGANELLE GENOME, Pakistan Journal of Botany, 2015
21. Rehana Yasmin,Sami Siraj,,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=130" title="Dr. Amjad Hassan">A.Hassan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Rashda Abbasi,Nafees Ahmad Epigenetic Regulation of Inflammatory Cytokines and Associated Genes in Human Malignancies, Mediators of Inflammation, 2015
22. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=110" title="Dr. Muhammad Irshad">M.Irshad</a> Immediate and Transgenerational Regulation of Plant Stress Response through DNA Methylation, Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2015
23. Sara Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=633" title="Dr. Habiba Zaffar">H.Zaffar</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=139" title="Dr. Usman Irshad">U.Irshad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=131" title="Dr. Raza Ahmad">R.Ahmad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=138" title="Dr. M. Maroof Shah">M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=114" title="Dr. Muhammad Bilal">M.Bilal</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=492" title="Mazhar Iqbal">M. Iqbal</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=117" title="Dr. Syed Tatheer Alam Naqvi">S.Naqvi</a> Biodegradation of malathion by Bacillus licheniformis strain ML-1, Archives of Biological Sciences, 2015
24. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Jérôme Enjalbert,Anne-Charlotte Marsollier,Agnès Rousselet,Isabelle Goldringer,Clémentine Vitte Vernalization treatment induces site-specific DNA hypermethylation at the VERNALIZATION-A1 (VRN-A1) locus in hexaploid winter wheat, BMC Plant Biology, 2013
25. Mathieu Thomas,Elise Demeulenaere,Julie C. Dawson,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Nathalie Galic,Sophie Jouanne-Pin,Carine Remoue,Christophe Bonneuil, Isabelle Goldringer On-farm dynamic management of genetic diversit y: the impact of seed diffusions and seed saving practices on a population-variety of bread wheat, Evolutionary Applications, 2012

Conference Publications

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a> Epigenetics and Crop Improvement, , 2023
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a> Evaluation of the DNA Methylation Pattern of Second Generation Candidate Drought Tolerant Tomato Plants, , 2022
3. Helen Mary,Zahid Ahmad Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,Kiran Zubair Evaluation of epigenetic diversity among different germplasm of tomato, , 2019
4. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Helen Mary,Muhammad Saad,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a> Evaluation of epigenetic diversity among various buckwheat accessions from Pakistan., , 2019
5. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a> Variation in photoperiod Treatment induced DNA methylation shifts in tartary buckwheat, , 2019
6. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=123" title="Dr. Muhammad Shahzad (ES)">M. Shahzad</a> Induction of DNA hypomethylation in ZmEXPB2 and ZmXET1 genes under Salt stress in Maize, , 2017
7. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Nathalie Galic,Sophie Jouanne-Pin,Isabelle Goldringer,Mathieu Thomas Genetic diversity and evolution of European wheat populations submitted to contrasting agro-climatic conditions, , 2014
8. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Mathieu Thomas,Nathalie Galic,Sophie Jouanne-Pin,Isabelle Goldringer Short term response of European wheat populations to contrasting agro-climatic conditions: A genetic diversity analysis., , 2014
9. Isabelle Goldringer,Pierre RIVIÈRE,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Sally Howlett Diversity for specific adaptation and evolutionary processes Evolutionary mechanisms and breeding strategies in SOLIBAM. , , 2014
10. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Jérôme Enjalbert,Isabelle Goldringer,Clémentine Vitte Vernalization affects DNA methylation of the VRN-A1 gene in hexaploid wheat. , , 2012
11. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Jérôme Enjalbert,Isabelle Goldringer,Clémentine Vitte The DNA Methylation Profile of the VRN-1A Gene Changes Following Vernalization in Hexaploid Wheat, , 2012
12. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,Jérôme Enjalbert,Clémentine Vitte,Isabelle Goldringer DNA methylation patterns in the VRN1 gene in vernalized and non-vernalized wheat, , 2010

Books and Book Chapters

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=136" title="Dr. Sarfraz Shafiq">S.Shafiq</a> Overview of methods to unveil epigenetic code., , 2016
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=136" title="Dr. Sarfraz Shafiq">S.Shafiq</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a> Plant epigenetics and crop improvement, , 2014