Exploring opportunities to improve high temperature tolerance in wheat, with a special focus on understanding the link between carbon assimilation mechanism and heat tolerance.

Exploring physiological and proteomic basis of heat stress tolerance in wheat and cotton crops.Financial management to smoothly conduct project activities; Apply for research grants, managing research project activities.Request and acquire necessary equipment / chemicals for the project activities;

Studying waterlogging tolerance mechanisms of cotton cropsCarry out project activities, plan and conduct research experiments; Assist under- and post-graduate students in conducting glasshouse experimentsPrepare research progress reports for funding agencies.

Identify key research areas in the field of “Crop Adaptability to Environmental Changes, with a special focus on extreme weather events” and design a project spanning up to three years. (Research initiativeness);Consult and collaborate with other universities and research institutes for planning and conducting research activities;Undertake research tasks; defend project activities, review of literature, present research output at conferences, and synthesise reports of technical information and findings; Organise regular meetings with the supervisory committee and external scientists.

Conduct field-based studies to understand cotton responses to waterlogging and shade and devise techniques for protecting cotton crops from stress-induced injury.

Develop new techniques for enhancing productivity and profitability of Oilseed crops;Develop parent lines and hybrids of sunflower, canola and cotton crops using conventional breeding techniques;Conduct countrywide research trials to evaluate the performance of newly developed hybrid and select hybrids with superior oil quality and high yielding traits;Introduction of foreign crop production technology to local farming community (Chinese Crop Production Technology and Drip Irrigation System); Transfer of newly developed, advanced cultivation techniques and crop breeds to local farmers;Train farmers and farm managers with techniques for improving the production of crops;