Introduction:

Dr. Muhammad Javed is working as Assistant Professor of Botany, Coordinator Department of Botany and Incharge Internal Examinations at University of Education, Lahore, Campus Dera Ghazi Khan. He has 15 years’ experience of teaching and research in the context of the physiology of crop productivity under biotic and abiotic stresses. He did his PhD degree in subject of Botany from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. During his PhD, he tried to explore the morphological and physiological mechanism of drought and salt tolerance in potential grasses Panicum antidotale and Panicum turgidum. He also devised rapid and reliable screening method for selecting salt, drought and heat stress tolerance in genotypes/cultivars and populations. He has good knowledge and experience of analytical techniques used in plant physiology like photosynthesis, oxidative stress, mineral nutrition, plant water relations. During study and job, he helped BS, MSc, MPhil and PhD students of Botany in their research and write up on projects of multifarious nature. He has written a number of research articles which have been published in National and International impact factor journals. He has also attended various National and International conferences and workshops. Before joining University of Education, Lahore, he has been serving Punjab Higher Education Department.