Investigating the potential of Uri Dhan (Porteresia coarctata), to be the donor of salt tolerance traits for developing highly salt tolerant rice varieties (2016-2018)
Conventional breeding not very successfulTarget DNA loci introduced in commercial RiceTransgenics: Regulatory genes/no genetic barrierMolecular tools to Identify tolerance DNA lociGeneLandracePrecision Breeding using DNA markers to ensure transfer of correct lociCommercial genotypePlant Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Finding sources for donors of tolerance genesFor Precision Breeding using DNA markers and Transformation Bangladesh is home to the Origin ofBiodiversity of Rice, in the NorthEast. Out of about 8000 recordedevolved Rice Landraces, 50 are stillcultivated in problem soils, whereelite varieties do not growhttp://www.fao.org/3/CA3474EN/ca3474en.pdfLocation of 70% of the 200 rice accessions sequenced by the 3K rice genomes project-https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2047-217X-3-7 Photo Credit: Nafis Ul Alam and Anika Tahsin • Principal Investigator:• Prof. Zeba Islam Seraj (Ph.D.)• Co-Investigators:• Prof. Md. Rakibul Islam• Farida Yasmin• Mohammad Umer Sharif Shohan• Collaborators: • Dr. Sabrina Moriom Elias (IUB)• Dr. Sazzadur Rahman (BRRI)• Tasmia Islam (Jagannath University)• Taslima Haque (University of Texas at Austin)• Dr. Saima Shahid (Donald Danforth Center, USA)• Foreign Collaborators:• Dr. Tom Juenger (University of Texas at Austin)• Dr. Rod Wing (KAUST and University of Arizona)• Dr. Narendra Tuteja (ICGEB, India)• Dr. Sneh-Lata Singla Pareek (ICGEB, India)• Dr. William Paul Quick (IRRI, The Philippines)• Research Associate: • Dola Kormoker• Tomalika Azim• PhD Student:• Rumana Sultana Tammi• U. S. Mahzabin Amin• Umme Habiba Mita• Technician: • Md. Shamim Hossain• Rabin Sarkar• Al-Amin Hossain• Raju Ahmed• Khayrul Kabir• Niaz Mahmud• Accountant:• Md. Shamim Hosain• Masters Student (Old)• Yeamin Farabi Chowdhary Ria• Anik Kumar Saha• Umme Sabrina Haque • Masters Student (New)• Saima Akhter Sadia• Fahmida Akhther Borsa• Israt Jahan• Imran Khan• Arifa Akhter Airin• Alumni (those not in the collaborator list): • Dr. Laisa A. Lisa (Jagannath University)• Dr. Noorain Rasul (Apex Biotech)• Dr. Richard Malo (OMC)• Dr. Sumaiya F. Khan (Jagannath University)• Dr. Rokeya Begum (CARS)Lab Members