Technical Sales Officer
Syngenta pakistan limited
Total years of experience :6 years, 7 Months
Trialing of upcoming hybrids
Achieving financial budget
Team management
Channel management
Field service
As a Research Associate, I am responsible for:
•Development of inbred lines in Maize using double haploid technology.
•Maintenance of inducer lines.
•Maize and sorghum breeding for hybrid development.
•Scientific publications.
•Management and data recording of on station trial.
•Seed production of approved varieties of maize and sorghum for general cultivation.
•Use of fertilizer, pesticide, weedicide and micro-nutrients in crops for good management of field crop.
As a Sales and research officer, I am responsible for:
•The conduction of multi-locational field trials of Corn, Cauliflower and Squash seed imported from Europe as well as record keeping of morphological traits of crops.
•The selection of hybrid/variety with respect to crop maturity ratings, high yield across number of locations, resistance or tolerance to diseases and good crop standability.
•The evaluation of the more efficient use of fertilizer, pesticide, weedicide and micro-nutrients in crops.
•The collaboration with the farmers community to ensure good management of crop production.
•The coordination with seed dealers to boost up the sales of product.
The internship aimed to teach me perform different molecular techniques used in crop research, for this issue, I conducted the following steps:
•Preparation of MS-Media and tissue culture of wheat.
•DNA extraction and quantification of the leaf rust resistant gene in wheat.
•Amplification of the extracted DNA of leaf rust gene by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).
•Separation of the PCR products by Agarose Gel Electrophoresis. tf the gene.
The internship aimed to teach me perform different molecular techniques used in crop research, for this issue, I conducted the following steps:
•DNA Extraction and quantification of leaf rust resistant gene in wheat.
•Amplification of the extracted DNA by PCR.
•Separation of PCR product by Agarose Gel Electrophoresis.
•Wheat plant emasculation and crossing.
•MS- Media Preparation for tissue culturing of wheat.
“Genetic analysis of yield traits in Chinese hybrids with local rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties”.