Research interests
My research interests include molecular cytogenetics of cereal, germplasm and genetic stocks development, and rust and other resistance genes transfer from wild species to cereal. One of my major research interests involves transfers of rust and other resistance genes from wild species to cereal using chromosome engineering and molecular cytogenetic techniques (such as fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH)). I am also interested in the genetic aspects of rust and powdery mildew resistance. In addition, my long time research interests have been in the structure and function of cereal centromere and telomere, the evolution of the Triticeae genome, and the evolutionary relationships in the Triticum and Aegilops complex. Molecular biological and cytogenetic techniques are the main approaches used to study the Triticeae genome and its evolution in our laboratory.