Journal of Plant Genetics and Breeding
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Biography

Dr. Ahmed Sallam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics at Assiut University, Egypt where he has been a faculty member since 2005. Dr. Sallam started his M.Sc. in 2005 and has occupied a Research Assistant at the Department of Genetics in Assiut University up to 2010. In 2011, he started his P.hD studies at University of Göttingen for three years. After his P.hD. he became an Assistant Professor at the Department of Genetics, Assiut University. He worked as a Research Scientist at Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, University of Lincoln-Nebraska, USA for two years 2016 and 2017. Dr. Sallam received a Ph.D. award from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Postdoctoral fellowship from Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education. He received a recognition of high scholarship and outstanding achievement from Gamma Sigma Delta foundation.

Research Interest

Improving abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in cereals and legumes using advances in molecular plant breeding and genetics

Publications

Screening Winter Wheat Lines in Nebraska for the Fhb1 Gene Using Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR (KASP)