Mazhar Iqbal
Assistant Professor
Environmental Sciences
Quaid-i-Azam University
Pakistan
Biography
Mazhar Iqbal obtained his Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) The Netherlands. He currently holds as an Assistance Professor in Department of Environmental Sciences at Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad. His Research interest mainly involved Environmental Biotechnology and Bioremediation, Heavy Metal Toxicity and tolerance/accumulation mechanisms in plants, Phytoremediation, Identification of molecular mechanisms for heavy metal tolerance and accumulation and transfer of these mechanisms to high biomass plants or agricultural crops.
Research Interest
Environmental Biotechnology and Bioremediation, Heavy Metal Toxicity and tolerance/accumulation mechanisms in plants, Phytoremediation, Identification of molecular mechanisms for heavy metal tolerance and accumulation and transfer of these mechanisms to high biomass plants or agricultural crops.
Publications
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Khan AHA, Tanveer S, Anees M, Muhammad YS, Iqbal M, Yousaf S. (2016). Role of nutrients and illuminance in predicting the fate of fungal mediated petroleum hydrocarbon degradation and biomass production. Journal of Environmental Management. 176: 54-60.
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Arshad M, Ali Khan AHA,  Hussain I, Zaman B, Anees M, Iqbal M, Soja G, Lindef C, and Yousaf S. (2017). The reduction of chromium (VI) phytotoxicity and phytoavailability to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) using biochar and bacteria. Applied Soil Ecology 114: 90-98
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Nawaz I, Iqbal M, Bliek M, and Schat H. (2017). Salt and heavy metal tolerance and expression levels of candidate tolerance genes among four extremophile Cochlearia species with contrasting habitat preferences. Science of the Total Environment 584-585: 731-741
