Young Affiliate Alumnus
Farooq Muhammad
Professor
Current nationality
Pakistan
Current country of residence
Oman
Affiliation / Institution
Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
Biodata
Dr. Muhammad Farooq is Professor of Plant Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. He also holds the positions of Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia and Dankook University, South Korea. Dr. Farooq is the recipient of several fellowships and awards from Australia, Germany, Japan, Oman and Pakistan, and. He was named the ‘Highly Cited Researcher’ by the Clarivate/Web of Sciences for the years 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
His research has encompassed providing an understanding of the response of crops to abiotic stresses. He has developed seed enhancements for improving crop performance under less than optimum conditions and for the delivery of micronutrients. He devised technologies for the cost-effective biofortification of grain crops with zinc and iron. He is among the pioneers to develop non-chemical weed control, through allelopathy, in field crops. He optimized, developed and popularized conservation agricultural systems In Pakistan and Oman. Dr. Farooq has edited thirty-five books and authored and co-authored more than 400 research articles. His citations, on google scholar, exceed 41,000 with an H-index of 95.
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
Sustainable agriculture, Plant stress physiology, Cropping systems, Food security
AFFILIATED FROM
2014
AFFILIATED UNTIL
2018
Country of birth
Pakistan
Section
01. Agriculture, Nutrition & Food Systems Sciences
TWAS Regional Office
TWAS Central and South Asia Regional Partner (TWAS-CASAREP)
Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
Oman
Public contact information
EMAIL
farooqcp@gmail.com
PHONE
(+968) 24141217
Website, social media accounts or additional info
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SOsmO3oAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muhammad-Farooq-141
ADDRESS
Department of Plant Sciences College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khoud 123, Oman.
Last updated on 12/07/2023