MUHAMMAD ARIF

Associate Professor

Biotechnology , Garden Campus

Contact Information:

arif@awkum.edu.pk

1. Arif. M, Azhar. U, Zafar. Y, Mansoor. S and Asad. S. Engineering broad-spectrum resistance against RNA viruses in potato. Transgenic Research (2012) 21:303–311. (Impact Factor: 2.32). 2. Balazadeh. S, Jaspert. N, Arif. M, Mueller-Roeber. B, Maurino. V.G. Expression of ROS-responsive genes and transcription factors after metabolic formation of H2O2 in chloroplasts. Frontiers in Plant Science. DOI=10.3389/fpls.2012.00234. (Impact Factor: 3.95). 3. Rauf. M, Arif. M, Dortay. H, Matallana-Ramírez. L.P, Waters. M.T, Gil-Nam. H, Lim. P.O, Mueller-Roeber. B, Balazadeh. S. ORE1 balances leaf senescence against maintenance by antagonizing G2-like-mediated transcription. EMBO Report. (2013) 14(4):382-8. (Impact Factor: 9.06). 4. Rauf. M, Arif. M, Fisahn. J, Xue. J.P, Balazadeh. S and Mueller-Roeber. NAC transcription factor SPEEDY HYPONASTIC GROWTH regulates flooding-induced leaf movement in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell (2013) 25: 4941–4955. (Impact Factor: 9.34). 5. Alice Pajoro, Pedro Madrigal, Jose M Muiño, José Tomás Matus, Jian Jin,Martin A Mecchia, Juan M Debernardi, Javier F Palatnik, Salma Balazadeh, Muhammad Arif, Diarmuid S O Maoiléidigh, Frank Wellmer, Pawel Krajewski,José-Luis Riechmann, Gerco C Angenent, Kerstin Kaufmann. Dynamics of chromatin accessibility and gene regulation by MADS-domain transcription factors in flower development. Genome biology. 03/2014; 15(3): R41. DOI:10.1186/gb-2014-15-3-r41. (Impact Factor: 10.81). 6. Arif. M, Aziz. A, Rauf. S, Afrasiab. H and Rauf. M. High frequency plant regeneration from leaf derived callus of DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS L. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 5, 2454-2463. 7. Zhelev. M.Z, Arif. M, Popgeorgiev. S.G, Rauf. M, Mehterov. N.H. Haematology of pelophylaxridibundus (am-phibia: ranidae) of striata and maculata morphs in populations living in conditions of anthropogenic pollution in southern bulgaria. Open Journal of Animal Sciences, 4, 206-216. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojas.2014.44026 8. Martin KM Engqvist, Jessica Schmitz, Anke Gertzmann, Alexandra Florian, Nils Jaspert, Muhammad Arif, Salma Balazadeh, Bernd Mueller-Roeber, Alisdair R Fernie, Veronica G Maurino. GLYCOLATE OXIDASE3, a glycolate oxidase homolog of yeast L-lactate cytochrome c oxidoreductase, supports L-lactate oxidation in roots of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology. 08/2015; 169(2). DOI:10.1104/pp.15.01003. (Impact Factor: 6.84) 9. Fabian Koeslin-Findeklee, Vajiheh Safavi Rizi, Martin A. Becker, Sebastian Parra-Londono, Muhammad Arif, Salma Balazadeh, Bernd Mueller-Roeber, Reinhard Kunze, Walter J. Horst. Transcriptomic analysis of nitrogen starvation- and cultivar-specific leaf senescence in winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.). Plant Science 01/2015; 233. DOI:10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.11.018. (Impact Factor: 3.61) 10. Rauf, M., Arif, M., Ud Din, A., Rauf, S., Hameed, M.W., Begum, H.A. (2016). Evolutionary Analysis of Regulatory Sequences in Promoter of Senecence-induced Glutamine Synthetase cytosolic isozyme GS1; 5 in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Advancement in Medical and Life Sciences. V4I3. DOI: 10.15297/JALS.V4I3.04. 11. Arshad A. Khan, Muhammad Sajid, Amjad Iqbal, Zafar H. Khan, Badshah Islam, Farman Ali, Kawsar Ali, Ayaz Ahmed, Muhammad Sajjad, Muhammad Arif, Waqar Ali, Farooq Shah. Improving yield and mineral profile of tomato through changing crop micro-environment. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin 8/2017; 26: 4911-4918. (Impact Factor: 0.67) 12. Zafar Hayat Khan, Shad Khan Khalil, Amjad Iqbal, Badshah Islam, Wajid Ali Shah, Ayaz Ahmad, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Sajjad, Farooq Shah. Growth attributes of sweet corn under different planting regimes. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin. 10/2018; 27: 6945-6951. (Impact Factor: 0.67). 13. Amir Alia, Sher Mohammadb, Mubarak Ali Khan, Naveed Iqbal Rajaa, Mohammad Arif, Atif Kamilcand, Zia-ur-Rehman Mashwani. Silver nanoparticles elicitedin vitrocallus cultures for accumulation of biomassand secondary metabolites in Caralluma tuberculata. Artificial cells, nanomedicine, and biotechnology.Doi.org/10.1080/21691401.2019.1577884. (Impact Factor: 4.47). 14. Abdullah, Sher Ali, Muhammad Salman, Misbahud Din, Kachkol Khan, Munib Aahmad, Faisal Hayat Khan and Muhammad Arif. Dengue Outbreaks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan in 2017: An Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response System (IDSRS)-Based Report. Polish Journal of Microbiology. 2019, Vol. 68, No 1, 115–119. (Impact Factor: 0.78). 15. Raham Sher Khan, Aneela Iqbal, Radia Malak, Kashmala Shehryar, Syeda Attia, Talaat Ahmed, Mubarak Ali Khan, Muhammad Arif, Masahiro Mii. Plant defensins: types, mechanism of action and prospects of genetic engineering for enhanced disease resistance in plants. 3 Biotech. (2019) 9:192: doi.org/10.1007/s13205-019-1725-5. (Impact Factor: 1.78). 16. Abeer Kazmi, Mubarak Ali Khan, SherMohammad, Amir Ali, Atif Kamil, Mohammad Arif, HumaAli. Elicitation directed growth and production of steviol glycosides in the adventitious roots of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni. Industrial Crops and Products. (2019) 139: doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2019.111530. (Impact Factor: 4.19). 17. Akhtar M, Jamal T, Jamal H, Din JU, Jamal M, Arif M, Arshad M, Jalil F. Identification of most damaging nsSNPs in human CCR6 gene: In silico analyses. International journal of immunogenetics. 2019 Dec;46(6):459-71. (Impact Factor: 1.07).