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Dr. Jamilur Rahman is a Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He did his Post-Doctoral research at Max Planck Institute, Germany, and obtained Ph.D. from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi. Being a teacher, his main interest is to educate and motivate the students to understand the basic principles and perform high-quality research for the betterment of farmers and humankind. 

Dr. Rhaman participated in and presented his research work at many international conferences, seminars, and workshops in UK, Germany, France, Spain, China, India, South Korea, and Bangladesh. So far, he has published 58 scientific articles in SCI-indexed reputed journals including BMC Plant Biology, Crop Science, Virology, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, Heliyon, PLOS ONE, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology Reports, etc. 

His researches mainly focus on crop improvement associated with yield, quality, fatty acids of edible oil, abiotic tolerance, disease resistance, and stress-adaptation of crops. Conventional and molecular plant breeding, molecular biology, bioinformatics, genomics and tissue culture approaches are practiced to address the research questions and to test the research hypotheses. So far, Dr. Rahman developed five varieties of Canoal-grade mustard, Maize Corp. 

Expertise and skill: Conventional and Molecular Plant Breeding, Molecular Biology, Gene Silencing, RNAi, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Tissue culture, and Molecular Virology