PEST RESISTANT PLANTS / Muhammad Akhlas

Dr. Muhammad Akhlas has achieved his PhD qualification in conservation science from School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Norwich. Prior to his doctoral program, he was working with UNEP-WCMC Cambridge UK as Chevening Scholar in their Biodiversity Information Services section. At the same time, he was Visiting Chevening Fellow at St. Edmundђ́ةs College, Cambridge. During his stay at UNEP-WCMC, he took part in various projects related to conservation management of biodiversity. He also has M.Phil. in Environmental Biology from the Department of Biological Sciences, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad and MSc in Plant Sciences from University of Peshawar, Pakistan. Currently Dr. Akhlas is studying Climate Justice in the Centre of Climate Justice from Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow UK. Dr. Muhammad Akhlas is an innovative researcher and environmental manager with broad public sector and non-government organization experience. He gained valuable research experience and academic training in Plant Sciences during his work at different international organizations and institutes of Pakistan and UK. Besides his educational training and research enthusiasm, he has specialized experience in pest resistant plants, economic assessment of natural resources, impacts of climate change, socio-economic development, assessment of environmental impacts (EIA) of mega projects on Plant and soil biodiversity, and environmental monitoring and auditing. He conducted consultancy work for international organization like UNEP-WCMC, UNDP, IUCN, WWF and GTZ. As a consultant with these organizations, his work involved assessing international trade in endangered fauna and flora, biodiversity baseline studies, assessments of forest plant species, medicinal plants and ethnobotany for socioeconomic development.

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Pest Resistant Plants examines various dimensions of pest resistant plants band pesticides. It includes the definition of pests and pesticides along with the description on those plants that are genetically modified and an introduction bacillus thuringenesis technology. Provide the reader with the insights into the development of various methodologies required for pest resistance, so as to understand the progress that has been made in identification and development of crop cultivars with resistance to the major pests in different crops.