About
Dr. Mohd Rafiq Wani is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Botany at Abdul Ahad Azad Memorial Degree College Bemina, Cluster University Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Dr. Wani did his Masters’ degree in Botany in 2003 with a specialization in Genetics and Plant Breeding from Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. After obtaining the Degree of Doctorate in 2008 for his research work on Chemical Mutagenesis in Mungbean from the same university, he joined the Department of Higher Education, Jammu and Kashmir Government in 2009. He teaches a range of bioscience-related subjects at undergraduate/postgraduate levels. Dr. Wani’s research interests are primarily focused on induced mutagenesis in food crops more particularly in pulse crops. As a part of his research endeavour, Dr. Wani has extensively researched and written on the issues of induced mutagenesis in food crops, with special reference to pulses. He has published more than 35 research papers in peer-reviewed Journals and 15 book chapters in various research- oriented volumes. Dr. Wani, while constantly working for his academic and research interests, has so far edited eight volumes of books on the subjects of Induced Plant Mutagenesis, and Crop Improvement with reputed international publishers like Springer and Wageningen Academic Publishers, Netherlands.