Dr. Shahid Masood Shah

Professor

Area of Interest: Genetic Diversity and its Conservation, Marker Assisted Breeding

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Academics / Degrees

Ph.D. 2013 Pakistan Institute of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan
M.Phil.
2009
Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad,
Pakistan
BS (Hons.) 2003 University of Arid
Agriculture, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Profile / Bio

Professional and Research Experience:

Tenured
Associate Professor , Department of Biotechnology , COMSATS Institute of
Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Feb.
2014 till March 2022: Assistant Professor , Department of Biotechnology ,
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
2007
to 2008, Horticulturist. Attock Refinery Limited, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Research Interests

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Understanding
genetic diversity of the plants for their conservation

Crop
improvement by marker assisted breeding
Mushroom
cultivation technology development

Awards

Indigenous PhD award from HEC for M.Phil. leading to PhD in Pakistan from 2008 to 2013
International Research Support Initiative Program form HEC for International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Philippines in 2011

Research Projects

Project Title	PI/Co-PI	Agency	Status:
In vitro propagation and somaclonal variation in medicinally important Arisaema Species.	PI	HEC	Completed
Use of Clean Technology to Convert Industrial Wastes into Valuable Biomedical Materials by Micro-organisms.	PI	CUI	Completed
Epigenetics Regulation of ZmASR1 Gene Under Water Stress in Maize.	Co-PI	CUI	In-progress
Assessment of Native Morchella Species Growth Factors In Situ and their Implementation for Pilot Scale Production in Pakistan	PI	NRPU	In progress
Induction of Transgenerational Epigenetic Variation for the Drought Tolerant Tomato Production	Co-PI	NRPU	In-progress

Students Supervised

Cellular
and Molecular Studies on Selected Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of
Hepatitis C Virus Infection, Tahir Yousaf, Fall 2016
Genetic and Nutritional Characterization of on
Farm Cultivated Buckwheat. Muhammad Iqbal, Fall 2017
Enhancement and Assessment of Secondary
Metabolites of Bergenia Species by Tissue Culturing Technique, Sehrish
Latif, Spring 2018
Identification
and Expression of Cold Stress Responsive Genes in Buckwheat Najam Awan,
Spring 2019
Effect
of Cold Stress on Polyphenols of Fagopyrum esculentum and Fagopyrum
tartaricum, Momina Ilyas, Fall 2019
Optimization
of Mycelial Growth of Morels from Galyat and Swat Area, Haseena Bibi,
Spring 2021
Association
Study of microRNA Binding Site Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms with Breast
Cancer in Pakistani Population, Muhammad Usman, Spring 2021
Evaluation
of DNA Methylation Patterns in Solanum
lycopersicum Under Cold Stress, Sana Khan, Spring 2021
Assessment of Nuclear Diversity of Morchella
Species from Northern Regions of Pakistan, Ahtezaz Rafiq, Fall 2021

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.	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
3.	Ali Masood,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=491" title="Dr. Yasar Sajjad">Y.Sajjad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=134" title="Dr. Sabaz Ali Khan">S.A.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=130" title="Dr. Amjad Hassan">A.Hassan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=138" title="Dr. M. Maroof Shah">M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a> In vitro propagation of Geranium wallichianum: An indigenously threatened medicinal plant in Pakistan, Kuwait Journal of Science, 2023
4.	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
5.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a> Recent trends in green synthesis of silver, gold, and zinc oxide nanoparticles and their application in nanosciences and toxicity: a review. , Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering, 2022
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.	Muhammad Arif,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a> Basmati genome recovery and functional annotation using tunable-genotyping by sequencing, Pak. J. Agri. Sci, 2022
8.	Jianlong Xu,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a> Identification of Candidate Genes for Salinity and Anaerobic Tolerance at the Germination Stage in Rice by Genome-Wide Association Analyses, Frontiers in Genetics, 2022
9.	Sidra Rehman ,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a> Phytochemical Screening and Protective Effects of Prunus Persica Seeds Extract on Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Hepatic Injury in Rats, Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, 2022
10.	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
11.	Dr. Sidra Rehman,Shifa Shah,Azeem Mehood Butt,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,Zahra Jabeen,Amjad Nadeem Biochemical Profiling and Elucidation of Biological Activities of Beta vulgaris L. Leaves and Roots Extracts, Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 2021
12.	Wasim Sajjad,Feng He,Muhammad Wajid Ullah,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=744" title="Dr. Muhammad Ikram (Secretory) ">Ikram Muhammad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=115" title="Dr. Romana Khan">R.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=195" title="Mr. Naeem Riaz">N. Riaz</a>,Ayesha Khalid,Guang Yang,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=382" title="Dr. Fazli Wahid">F. Wahid</a> Fabrication of Bacterial Cellulose-Curcumin Nanocomposite as a Novel Dressing for Partial Thickness Skin Burn, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology , 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.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=382" title="Dr. Fazli Wahid">F. Wahid</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Phytochemical proﬁling and antiviral activity of Ajuga bracteosa, Ajuga parviﬂora, Berberis lycium and Citrus lemon against Hepatitis C Virus, Microbial Pathogenesis, 2018
19.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a> A phytobeneﬁcial strain Planomicrobium sp. MSSA-10 triggered oxidative stress responsive mechanisms and regulated the growth of pea plants under induced saline environment, Journal of Applied Microbiology , 2018
20.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=382" title="Dr. Fazli Wahid">F. Wahid</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=673" title="Dr. Sidra Rehman">Sidra Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Cellular and Molecular Studies on Selected Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Infection, Pakistan Journal of Botany, 2017
21.	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
22.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,Muhammad Arif,Kashif Aslam,Ghulam Shabir,Michael J. Thomson Genetic diversity analysis of Pakistan rice (Oryza sativa) germplasm using multiplexed single nucleotide polymorphism markers, Genet Resour Crop Evol, 2016
23.	Kashif Aslam,Muhammad Sabar,Muhammad Arif,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,Ghulam Sabir Identification of SSR markers to find adulteration in elite basmati rice varieties, Environment and Plant System,Aug 2015, 2015
24.	<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
25.	Gulzar Akhtar,Ahsan Akram,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=491" title="Dr. Yasar Sajjad">Y.Sajjad</a>,Hasan Sardar,Kaleem Naseem,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a> Potential of plant growth regulators on modulating rooting of Rosa centifolia, American Journal of Plant Sciences 6(5), 2015
26.	<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
27.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,S. A. Naveed,M. Arif Genetic diversity in basmati and non-basmati rice varieties based on microsatellite markers., Pakistan Journal of Botany, 2013
28.	J. I. Wattoo,K. Aslam,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,G. Shabir,M. Sabar,S. A. Naveed,R. Waheed,Samiullah,Q. H. Muqaddasi,M. Arif Ethyle methane sulphonate (EMS) induced mutagenic attempts to create genetic variability in Basmati r ice, Journal of Plant Breeding and Crop Science , 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.	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
3.	<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
4.	<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

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