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Muhammad Ishaq

Muhammad Ishaq
Pakistan

Basic Wheat Improvement Course - 2016

My Name is Muhammad Ishaq. I completed a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding & Genetics from The University Of Agriculture Peshawar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan. I started my work as a Wheat Breeder at the Cereal Crops Research Institute (CCRI), Pirsabak Nowshera Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. Currently I am serving as a Senior Research Officer (Wheat Breeder) at Barani Agricultural Research Station (BARS) Jarma Kohat Agriculture Research System, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Our breeding objectives include high yield, disease resistance and abiotic stress (heat, drought) resilience. 

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Breeding for rainfed or water-scarce/limited environments is our major concern. I been involved in the successful development of new wheat varieties, seed purification, maintenance seed multiplications, and carrying out quality seed production of different seed classes (breeder nucleus, pre-basic and basic seed) of approved varieties on station. New advanced lines received from CIMMYT-Mexico in the form of international nurseries (SAWSN, IBWSN) and trials (SAWYT & SATYN-Heat) are also planted for screening at the station. As a researcher I have conducted professional trainings and awareness programs to farmers on wheat production technology and quality seed production.

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The CIMMYT Basic Wheat Improvement Course (BWIC) has played a vital role in my career development. It was indeed a great honor to work with and learn from trainees and scientists of CIMMYT’s Global Wheat Program from diversified backgrounds in the field at the Norman E. Borlaug Experimental Station in Obregon, Mexico. I will always remember interacting with scientists during the CIMMYT field day during the global visitor's week -- it demonstrated the world working together in partnership for global impact.

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CIMMYT’s BWIC combined classroom with extensive field-based training, providing me with opportunities to learn new approaches and ways to think critically to design my future wheat breeding program and successfully deliver new products (varieties) to the farmers. There are several things that we learned from CIMMYT scientists, but the most important was that the key to success of a wheat breeding program depends on problem-based breeding for the target environment, extensive field-based evaluation, screening germplasm, and phenotyping and exposing germplasm simultaneously to diversified environments. Such an approach enables breeders to identify superior lines with high yield potential, yield stability and wider adaptation. I have seen this accomplished in CIMMYT’s Global Wheat Program, especially through their International Wheat Improvement Network for germplasm screening and evaluation, which is a key to the success of CIMMYT’s wheat breeding.

 

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