Dr Muhammad Anwar completed his PhD degree in ornamental horticulture biotechnology and genetic breeding from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 35002, China, in 2018. He has worked as a PhD Scholar in “Breeding of Horticulture Crops” Lab, College of Horticulture. Now he is doing his post-doctorate since 2019 from Shenzhen University, Shenzhen. During his post-doctorate, his research area is the genetic and metabolic engineering in the genome of microalgae for heterologous protein overexpression. Dr Anwar won the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) funding (International Young Scientists Research Project) and published good papers in reputable journals.
Dr Anwar's research interests reside in metabolic and genetic engineering, plant biotechnology and genetic breeding. During his PhD project, he has conducted research on “Identification, cloning and functional characterisation of R2R3-MYB transcriptional in flavonoid and phenylpropanoid biosynthetic pathway (Anthocyanins, Proanthocyanidins, Flavonol Phenolic acid and Lignin) in Chinese Narcissus ornamental flower, Arabidopsis and tobacco plants. Furthermore, He has done genetic transformation of early flowerings genes (FT, AP1) in Chinese Narcissus ornamental flowers via the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation method. He has good knowledge and experience in bioinformatics, genome, transcriptomics, biochemical analysis of secondary metabolites, metabolic engineering, plant genetic transformation (all methods) and flower colour modification. Till now, he is the first author of seven research articles and co-author of 18 research articles in well reputed international journals and some manuscripts are in the publication process.
