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Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya , India
| Biography Born on First January Nineteen hundred and fifty six (01.01.1956) at Village Radhanagar, Hooghly, West Bengal Prof. Dr. Ratikanta Ghosh s/o of Late AmulyaCharan Ghoshand Late Jayabati Ghosh schooling at Antpur High school (H.S) and BCKV (B.Sc.Ag. M.Sc.Ag and Ph.D) passed all degrees in 1st Division and joined at service on 02.05.1980. Retired from normal service on 31.12.2015 and now acting as reemployed Professor at BCKV. Besides teaching, formulated new courses,published 9 Books, 4 Chapter of Books, 18 Booklets and more than 300 scientific articles. Acted as Chairman of 34 PG students and 8 more are working. Acted as an expert in selection board, external examiner, paper reviewer, question setter in various National Institutions, Government and NGOs. Formed the registered “Crop and Weed Science Society” and publishing ICAR , NASS, CAB accepted “Journal of Crop and Weed” and “Crop and Weed Science News” since 2005. Organized3 International and 16 National Conferences besides more than 50 farmers’ training programme. Acted as Principal Investigator of 49 projects, participated in 20 International and 73 National conferences besides delivering lectures in more than 200 farmer training programme and also participated in Akashbani&Doordarshan.Presently member of more than 25 international and national societies. Research works conducted on weed management, system intensification and oilseeds production, GHG emission, bioherbicide, pest losses etc. Awarded CWSS Gold Medal, and Fellows of ISWS, AAPP & APS and Recognition Award from ISWS DWSR and ICAR and many international and national organizations. Research Interest
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Nanjing Agricultural University, China
| Biography Dr.Liwang Liu is a Professor, Vice Director of Engineering Research Center of Horticultural Crop Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, China. He completed his Ph.D in Crop Genetics and Breeding and M.S. in Vegetable Sciences from Nanjing Agricultural University, China. He worked in the Department of Plant Sciences, NDSU, USA as a Postdoc. Dr. Liu played instrumental role in some international collaborative projects with USA, Australia, East African, etc. He is associate Editor-in–Chief of some monograph and textbooks including Chinese radish, The Science of Seed and Seedling. Dr. Liu's research interests include Vegetable Crop Genetics and Breeding, Biotechnology in Horticulture, Applied plant genomics. Research Interest
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Auburn University, USA
| Biography Joseph J. Molnar is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. He also serves as Coordinator of the Office of International Agriculture for the College of Agriculture. His areas of interest include social and economic implications of changes in agricultural production, and in technology as a source of economic and social advancement in developing countries. Dr. Molnar teaches graduate courses in research methods and statistics. He served as an instructor on survey and questionnaire design for the World Bank IBDET summer training program for two years. Most recently he served as a consultant to the Conservation Technology Information Center. Dr. Molnar was president of the International Rural Sociology Association from 1996-2000, and President of the Rural Sociological Society of North America in 2008-2009. He lectures and consults internationally, most recently on organizational capacity measurement in developing country NGOs. He is currently working in Haiti and Uganda in various aspects of aquaculture and agricultural development. Research Interest Research Interests:
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Alexandria University, Egypt
| Biography Dr. Hosam O. Elansary, current visiting faculty at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Canada. He was Ph.D. graduate of the faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague (one of the world top 200 Universities). Born in Alexandria in 1978, graduated in 1999 from the faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University and got two prizes for academic excellence in 2000. He held the position of lecturer (2003) then assistant professor at 2010 at Alexandria University. During his study in Europe he worked on a project between USA & the Czech Academy of Sciences and has several impacted publications in the field of plant physiology, biochemistry and biodiversity. He launched a national volunteering barcoding project aimed to barcode herbs, shrubs and trees especially ornamentals in Egypt since 2010 and up to now in collaboration with the University of Guelph in Canada. He was selected as the ambassador of the Society of Experimental Biology located in London, the society is considered as the main biological mass of scientists in Europe. He was selected as an editorial board of several journals. He participated either as a PI, Co-PI and as a consultant in several local and international projects, such as EIFAD & TreeBOL. Finally, he established EgyptBOL to be a big umbrella for Egyptian barcoders and to witness the birth of Egypt Barcode of Life dream (egyptbol.org). Research Interest Genetic diversity and biochemical activity of Egyptian horticultural crops. The antioxidant activity, essential oils, methanolic extracts of leaves and fruits of several horticultural crops (including medicinal and aromatic plants) grown in Egypt are being assessed and associated with molecular markers. Barcoding of Egyptian trees, shrubs and herbs especially horticultural crops |  |
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran, Iran
| Biography Karim Sorkheh was born and raised in small city of ‘Ahvaz’, ‘Ahvaz’ city in the south west of Iran. After finishing high school in Ahvaz he took part in the central university entrance exam and was accepted in 1995 to the University of ‘Shahid Chamran Ahvaz’ to study Agronomy and Plant Breeding. He took part in central exam for MS.c degree in plant breeding upon finishing undergraduate studies and was accepted as the best student (first rank) in the University of ‘Shahrekord’ in 2006. His research was to study the genetic diversity of wild species (Amygdalus spp.) and cultivated genotypes of Almond using AFLP molecular marker and some morphological characteristics. Obtaining his MSc led to a job at the Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding at the University of ‘Ahwaz’ and ‘Shahrekord’ as a lecture. He taught the principle of genetics, Biology, Application of molecular marker in plant breeding and use of techniques in biotechnology for BB.s, MS.c and PhD students and carried out some research projects. Karim Sorkheh holds a first degree in Plant Breeding science from the university of Shahr-e-Kord, Iran, and go ahead his education in application of molecular markers infruit breeding(Almond, Peach) and biotechnology. He continue his work Prunus species 2 crops and application of molecular markers in almond breeding. He collaborates with universities and institutions in the USA, Spain, Germany, Iran and France. Research Interest
Gene cloning and transformation
Gene silencing
Gene expression of antioxidant enzymes under abiotic stress
Find coding and non-coding regions (C1, Phospholipase, C2 and etc.) in pollen tube
growth in Prunus species
Ascorbate-gluthation path way and molecular induction some key antioxidant and
various metabolite under abiotic stress
Basic RNases, SFB, S-haplotype and F-Box genes in Prunus species
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Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya , India
| Biography Dr. Chakraborti had his early schooling at Rahara Ramakrishna Mission where he passed his secondary Examination with star marks in 1984 and had got National Scholarship. He graduated from Agriculture University, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya in 1990 securing 81.92 % marks in Agriculture Honours followed by his first position in 1st class in the Master degree in Agriculture in Agriculture with Horticulture from the same University. Later he obtained PhD from Kalyani University in Botany. He pursued specialized study in different Universities in Horticulture, Agriculture, Botany and Folklore in different winter Schools, Courses and Workshops at Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and West Bengal along with Asiatic Society, Kolkata. He possesses creative writing skills in Bengali as well as Farm Journalism. He had participated in more than 70 different International/National/State level seminars/symposiums all over India. Dr. Chakraborti began his carrier as an Agriculture Development Officer under WBAS (Admn) in 1993-1997. In 2007 he was made a Reader; in 2010 he was made Associate Professor. His Professorship is due since 2012. Dr. Chakraborti has written about 3 books in English and Bengali and he published near about 60 scientific papers. His popular writings also include wide ranging subjects, in which Agriculture, Horticulture and Folklore (Farm-lore) are the major ones. Dr. Chakraborti received several prizes and awards from different prestigious Institutions and platforms. Dr. Chakraborti’s ties with the culture and educational activities in WB are strong and numerous. He has delivered several lectures for radio and television presentation. Research Interest
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Open University, Raanana, Israel
| Biography Dr.Gregory Yom Dinis a Teacher and course coordinator in the Open University, Raanana, and also an Economic analyst, consultantin leading Israeli companies (AgroTop, AquaMaof, and others), which plan and develop agro-industrial projects. He completed his PhD in Leningrad Agricultural Institute. Mathematical Models and Programming in Economic Research. Thesis: “The system of economic models for an administrative region”.He worked as Research scientist at the Golan Research Institute. Main responsibilities: applied research in agricultural and development economics; implementation and drafting of research proposals for grants funding during the period of 1991 to 2012.He also involved in developing economic models for agri-business corporations (industrial animal farms, greenhouses, orchards with oil processing facilities, soy plant, waste to energy plants, etc.) (Israel, Russia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Gabon, Tanzania, other African countries, Romania, Hungary, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Birobidjan, Ukraine, Indonesia, China). About 70 articles for journals, research and teaching books published in English, Hebrew, and Russian. Research Interest
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Federal Institute of Education, Brazil
| Biography I am currently in Agroecologist at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Goiás, Brazil. Accomplished degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Goiás (2009), specialization in Environmental Law at PUC / GO (2011), master's degree in plant biodiversity from the Federal University of Goiás and currently Doctorate in Agronomy Program (Production plant) the same institution. I currently work with agroforestry, forest exploitation, valuation of ecosystem services of pollinators and agroecology, especially with the tomato crop, and other crops and ecological restoration of degraded environments. Reviewer six scientific periodicals, three international and three Brazilian journals, participate in two research project related to agroforestry and plant-insect interaction and present at least 49 scientific publications, 10 indexed with JCR. Research Interest
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National Agricultural Research Institute of Tunisia, Tunisia
| Biography Born on March twenty ninth Nineteen hundred and seventy nine (29.03.1979) at Kheireddine, Tunis, Tunisia, Dr. Riadh Ilahy obtained his baccalaureate (experimental sciences) in 1998 from the technical secondary school, le Kram, then he started his higher education (biology/geology) at the Faculty of Science, Bizerte, Tunis, Tunisia until he finished his master degree and PhD (Phytochemistry) in 2011. He finished his PhD after collaboration with Professor Marcello Salvatore Lenucci and Professor Giuseppe Dalessandro from the University of Salento. He is currently working as a permanent researcher at the National Agricultural Research Institute of Tunisia, department of Horticulture. He is specialized in breeding for higher nutritional quality crops, mainly tomato and potato. He published 2 Chapter of Books, 17 Communications/posters and more than 30 scientific articles. Acted as an external examiner, paper reviewer for many international indexed and impacted Journals. He obtained in 2014 the Amitom Young Researcher prize from the HM and Clause Company for his research on chloroplast/chromoplsat of high-pigment tomato cvs. He has bearing 7 H-index, 5 I10 index with 243 citations in “Google Scholar”. Research Interest
Agriculture Horticultural crop breeding
Phytochemistry
Natural antioxidants
Agriculture
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Daffodil International University , Bangladesh
| Biography Dr. Karim is the Assistant Professor in the Department of Food and Nutrition, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences,Daffodil International University(DIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh.Dr. Karim did his BSc in Agriculture and MS in Soil Science from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, and PhD from the Department of Plant Nutrition, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing under the Chinese Government Scholarship in Micronutrient management and stress physiology (especially in Drought). He has also pursued Post-doc from Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) in the field of Phytoremediation. He has professional experience in Teaching and Research for over 17 years in the field of Agriculture. Dr. Karim is a specialist in Plant nutrition and Environmental Science and has 13 publications in International SCI Journal with total impact factor: 17.59, 2 in National Journal, and 2 international conference proceedings. However, he has 1 book in UPM press for publication and 4 papers in SCI journal under review. He has bearing 6 H-index with 187 citations in “Google Scholar”. He likes teaching as well as research. Dr. Karim has successfully been implemented a project as “ResearchCollaborator” in the APN-funded project ARCP2012-06CMY-IGBP/ARCP2011-16NMY-IGBP. He also successfully worked in Bancharampur Integrated Agricultural Projects, College of Agricultural Sciences, IUBAT-International University of Business Agriculture and Technology as Extension Associate. He has a running project on “EstablishingGermplasm Center of Different Fruits” under umbrella of DIU. He is dedicated to his field of specialization. He joined DIU with the intension of developing the field of Food and Agriculture in the country and by the student subscribing to the philosophy of DIU. Dr. Karim hails from MymensinghSadar, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. He is happily married and has one daughter. Research Interest
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University of Zagreb, Croatia
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Ana Kaić was born on 3rd May 1983 in Koprivnica (Croatia). She finished primary school in 1997, and high school in 2001 in Đurđevac (Croatia). She studied animal husbandry at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb from 2001 till 2007. At the end of 2007, she started working as a young researcher at the Institute of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture. At the same faculty at the beginning of 2008, she enrolled with postgraduate doctoral study "Agricultural Sciences".
In the year 2009, she was at scientific education in meat industry PIK Vrbovec (Croatia).
She attended training course for expert assessor in year 2009. From the year 2010, she has been a member of the Association of sensory analysts (Gustus). She has participated as a member of the committee for sensory evaluation of dry-cured products at numerous national and international trade fairs. In 2011 and 2012 she was as a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Ljubljana. Presenting works she participated several national and international scientific conferences.
She is actively involved in teaching at the module “Quality and processing of meat” at the undergraduate level and modules “Fermented meat products” and “Facilities and equipment in meat “at the graduate level. Scientific and professional interests for her are involved with animal husbandry, animal welfare, equipment in the meat industry, factors affecting meat quality, food safety, sensory analysis, and the production of autochthonous meat products.Ana Kaić was born on 3rd May 1983 in Koprivnica (Croatia). She finished primary school in 1997, and high school in 2001 in Đurđevac (Croatia). She studied animal husbandry at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb from 2001 till 2007. At the end of 2007, she started working as a young researcher at the Institute of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture. At the same faculty at the beginning of 2008, she enrolled with postgraduate doctoral study "Agricultural Sciences".
In the year 2009, she was at scientific education in meat industry PIK Vrbovec (Croatia).
She attended training course for expert assessor in year 2009. From the year 2010, she has been a member of the Association of sensory analysts (Gustus). She has participated as a member of the committee for sensory evaluation of dry-cured products at numerous national and international trade fairs. In 2011 and 2012 she was as a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Ljubljana. Presenting works she participated several national and international scientific conferences.
She is actively involved in teaching at the module “Quality and processing of meat” at the undergraduate level and modules “Fermented meat products” and “Facilities and equipment in meat “at the graduate level. Scientific and professional interests for her are involved with animal husbandry, animal welfare, equipment in the meat industry, factors affecting meat quality, food safety, sensory analysis, and the production of autochthonous meat products.Kaić was born on 3rd May 1983 in Koprivnica (Croatia). She finished primary school in 1997, and high school in 2001 in Đurđevac (Croatia). She studied animal husbandry at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb from 2001 till 2007. At the end of 2007, she started working as a young researcher at the Institute of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture. At the same faculty at the beginning of 2008, she enrolled with postgraduate doctoral study "Agricultural Sciences".
In the year 2009, she was at scientific education in meat industry PIK Vrbovec (Croatia).
She attended training course for expert assessor in year 2009. From the year 2010, she has been a member of the Association of sensory analysts (Gustus). She has participated as a member of the committee for sensory evaluation of dry-cured products at numerous national and international trade fairs. In 2011 and 2012 she was as a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Ljubljana. Presenting works she participated several national and international scientific conferences.
She is actively involved in teaching at the module “Quality and processing of meat” at the undergraduate level and modules “Fermented meat products” and “Facilities and equipment in meat “at the graduate level. Scientific and professional interests for her are involved with animal husbandry, animal welfare, equipment in the meat industry, factors affecting meat quality, food safety, sensory analysis, and the production of autochthonous meat products.
Research Interest
Equipment in meat industryAnimal welfare
Animal husbandry
Meat quality
Processing of meat
Sensory analysis
Food safety
Equipment in meat industry
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Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brasil
| Biography I am an agronomist graduated from the universities Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA) e University of Wisconsin- River Falls (UWRF). Currently, I am a graduate student in Genetic and Crop Breeding at Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Viçosa, Minas Gerais, BR. I have experience in the handling of vegetable resources, especially with crop such as cassava. Most recently, I have been working in the evaluation of the germplasm of (Cucurbita moschata Duch.) belonging to the Vegetable Gene Bank of the Universidade Federal de Viçosa (BGH-UFV). I have been evaluating these germplasm as to the content of bio active compounds in fruits, besides its agronomic characteristics. Additionally, I am a member of the Research Center in Vegetables Crops (NEO) at UFV. Research Interest
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Yangtze University, China
| Biography Dr. Qiang-Sheng Wu is currently Professor at College of Horticulture and Gardening, Yangtze University, China and also is the Lead Direction at Institute of Root Biology, Yangtze University. He received his BS degree in Horticulture from Jiangxi Agricultural University and obtained the PhD degree of Pomology from Huazhong Agricultural University. Dr. Wu focused on arbuscular mycorrhizal research in fruit trees. He concerns the functioning and physiology of arbuscular mycorrhizas in plant and soil, especially in citrus plants. Recently, Dr. Wu worked on root hairs, drought tolerance by mycorrhization, common mycorrhizal network, and glomalin-related soil protein released by extra radical hyphae. Obtained the Fourth SCOPUS Young Research Award. Dr. Wu's Research interestsinclude : Physiological mechanisms of citrus plants colonized by mycorrhizal fungi under drought, salt stress and temperature stress; Mycorrhizal symbiosis and root hairs in citrus plants; Glomalin-related soil protein functionings released by extraradical hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizas in rhizosphere of citrus. Research Interest
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Huazhong Agricultural University, China
| Biography He finished his B.Sc. degree in Tea Science and received his Ph.D. degree in Protected Horticulture at the Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, submitting a thesis on "Salt tolerance mechanism of grafted cucumber" in 2010. From 2010 to 2013, Yuan Huang was a lecture in the Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University. Since 2014, Yuan Huang was promoted to a position of Associate Professor. Research Interest
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The University of Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli, Turkey
| Biography M. Cuneyt Bagdatlı is working as Assistant Professor in The University of NevÅŸehir Hacı BektaÅŸ Veli, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Biosystem Engineering in Turkey since 2014.He completed Ph.D. level in Biosystem Engineering area of Namık Kemal University and M.S. Level in Selçuk University, Department of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation in Turkey. He worked as a research assistant in Namık Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Biosystem Engineering (2008-2013). He served as project head and researcher in 18 projects supported by Namık Kemal University, Bilecik Seyh Edebali University, Siirt University and The University of NevÅŸehir Hacı BektaÅŸ Veli, Scientific Research Projects Units. He is having 60 articles and Syposium, Conference on Irrigation, Hdrology, Climate Change, Hydrology, Watershed Management, Water quality, Remote sensing and GIS mapping, The system management in automatic irrigation, fertilization, pesticide and greenhouse. Heavy metal pollution in water and soil. Research Interest Irrigation and Irrigation Systems in Agriculture, Watershed Management, Global Climate Change and Hydrology, The Management of Water and Soil Resources, The Use of Remote Sensing and Geography Information Systems (GIS) in Agriculture, Agricultural Water Quality and GIS modelling, Heavy metal pollution in soil and water, The System Management in Automatic Irrigation, Fertilization, Pesticide and Greenhouse |  |
Coordinator at National Commercial Agriculture Research Program, Nepal
| Biography Jiban Shrestha is currently working as a Scientist (Plant Breeding and Genetics) at Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Nepal since 2010 to August2017. Mr. Shrestha has been involved in basic and applied research on maize mainly related to development, maintenance and improvement of hybrid and open pollinated maize varieties as well as soil nutrient management for maize grown in various production systems. He has played vital role for development and release of three hybrid and three early varieties. Now he is working as a Coordinator at National Commercial Agriculture Research Program, Pakhribas, Dhankuta, Nepal. He has published 65 peer reviewed articles in both national and international journals, 10 proceeding papers and 2 books. He has been affiliated to 40 journals as editor or reviewer. Research Interest
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Islamic Azad University, Iran
| Biography Dr. Majid Abdoli is member of Young Researchers and Elite Club, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran. He has obtained B.Sc. from Zanjan University of Iran in Agricultural Engineering (field of Agronomy). He also has obtained M.Sc. course in Agronomy (field of Crop Physiology) at Razi University of Iran and has worked on the role of current and storage sources in grain growth stage on yield formation of different bread wheat cultivars of Kermanshah province. Also, Dr. Abdoli her Ph.D. thesis research has passed in Crop Physiology at the University of Maragheh in Iran on the evaluation of approaches to improvement the grain quantitative and qualitative of wheat by using zinc in calcareous soils. He during of education has achieved the third rank in M.Sc. and first rank in Ph.D. Also, he has published several manuscripts in international and national journals. Dr. Abdoli is reviewer for several national journals and he has published near of 25 manuscripts in international and national conferences. Research Interest
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ICAR- CENTRAL TUBER CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, India
| Biography Dr. P. Murugesan, Principal Scientist with mail id: P.Murugesan@icar.gov.inExperience in Research and Development of Oil Palm/Plantation Crops/Vegetable/Tuber Crops.,25years Specialization : Breeding for Seed production/technology in horticultural crops; PGR research in wild crop and relatives of horticultural crops.Research publication- Research papers: 65, Others: 175. PhD in Seed Science and Technology (200-2003) TNAU Coimbatore. PhD thesis title: Harvesting, post harvest handling and conditioning of fruit and seeds in Ash gourd (Benincasa hispida Cogn.) Co-1 and Kerala Local varieties. Principal Scientist (Horticulture) at ICAR-CTCRI, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Research Interest
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S.D.Agri.University, INDIA
| Biography To associate with a leading organization as a horticulturists with a specialisation in Fruit science and tissue culture and work with whole hearted dedication to contribute in the achievement of organizational goals in field of horticulture by utilizing theoretical, analytical and research skills Research Interest
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Ain Shams University, Egypt
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Research Interest NEW ASPECTS ON STABILITY OF SOME EDIBLE OILS Ph.D Thesis in Agricultural Science (Food Science and Technology). Department of Food Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, 2015. APPLICATION OF SOME METHODS FOR DETECTING ADULTERATION IN OLIVE OIL M.Sc. Thesis in Agricultural Science (Food Science and Technology). Department of Food Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, 2010. |  |
