Prof. Akhtar Inam
Professor
Botany
Aligarh Muslim University
India
Biography
Prof. Akhtar Inam is currently working as Professor at Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University. She Completed her high school from prestigious C.M.S. girls high school, (Srinagar, Kashmir) in 1968 with distinction. Later B. Sc, M.Sc, M. Phil and Ph.D. from Aligarh Muslim University in the year 1975, 1977, 1080 and 1986 respectively. M. Phil and Ph.D. were submitted under renowned Plant Physiologist Prof. M.M.R.K Afridi while working on vegetables and plant nutrition, appointed as guest faculty in A.K. Tibbya College A.M.U and later as an assistant and associate professor in Women's College A.M.U. During this period attended some conference and seminars and also presented Papers. Papers are published (Urban Water Journal, Publisher Taylor and Francis, African Journal of Plant Science and Pollution Research). One minor project was sanctioned by the University in which some field experiments were conducted on vegetables grown under wastewater and supplemented with flyash. The nutritional needs of the plants as well as to work out the problems of flyash disposal and recycling of wastewater was observed and results were published.
Research Interest
Plant Physiology, Mineral Nutrition
Publications
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Farha Ashfaque, Akhtar Inam, Seema Sahay, and Sab Iqbal (2016). Influence of heavy metal toxicity on plant growth, metabolism and its alleviation by phytoremediation- A promising technology. Journal of Agriculture and Ecology Research International, 6:1-19.
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Saba Iqbal, Arif Inam, Akhtar Inam, Farha Ashfaque, Seema Sahay (2016). Potassium and waste water interaction in the regulation of photosynthetic capacity, ascorbic acid and capsaicin in chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) plant. Article In Press Agricultural Water Managemen
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Farha Ashfaque, Akhtar Inam, Arif Inam, Saba Iqbal, Seema Sahay (2017). Response of silicon on metal accumulation, photosynthetic inhibition and oxidative stress in chromium-induced mustard (Brassica juncea L.). South African Journal of Botany, 111:153-160