Profile Summary

Dr. Muhammad Wasim Haider is currently working as Lecturer at the Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture & Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, teaching and supervising bachelors, masters and doctorate students in the field of Horticulture (Agriculture). Earlier, he has been working as Assistant Professor at the same institution on contract basis for a year. Prior to that, he has worked as Research Officer at Institute of Horticultural Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad in an ACIAR funded project, “Strengthening Vegetable Value Chains in Pakistan for greater community livelihood benefits” which aimed to improve the growers’ skills to produce various vegetable crops. Besides that, he has also been actively involved in potato breeding project entitled as “Potato Genetic Improvement for Eastern U.S. Production” during the six-month training program (IRSIP) at USDA where he acquired skills in potato tissue culture and breeding including potato pollen quality assessment, pollen storage and artificial pollination. His doctoral project was focused on breaking potato tuber dormancy to improve the quality of seed potato and its unhindered supply to farmers in Pakistan. During his thesis-based masters, he had been involved in research related to improved potato production technology. His areas of research interest are potato tissue culture, vegetables production and post-harvest technology, and their value chain analyses. He has authored multiple research articles published in prestigious SCI journals i.e., International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Frontiers in Plant Science, Scientific Reports, Scientia Horticulturae, and Acta Physiologiae Plantarum. He is also a regular reviewer of renowned research journals such as European Journal of Potato Research, Brazilian Journal of Biology, Journal of Pure and Applied Agriculture, Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Research, and Pakistan Journal of Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering and Veterinary Sciences. He has also completed a research project entitled “Improving potato production through varietal and fertilizer management under Cholistan region” funded by HEC (Pakistan).