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Dr. Afruza Sultana

Dr. Afruza Sultana

Sr. Manager & Head

    Name of
    Examination

    Board/ University

    Passing Year

    Division/
    Grade

    Marks
    (Total)

    Marks
    (%)

    Ph.D

    Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh

    2020

    Satisfactory

    MS in Biotechnology

    Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh

    December, 2006

    Grade A

    CGPA-3.85 (out of 4)

    B. Sc. Ag (Hons)

    Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh

    2003
    (Held in 2005)

    First

    2846

    63.24

    &

    • Working in Lal Teer Seed Ltd. a sister concern of Multimode Group since 01st March 2021 till to date as Head of Biotech Lab Dept.
    • Worked as a Researcher in the project entitled “Stress-Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia” funded by Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) from January, 2012 to January, 2020.
    • Worked as an “Industrial Engineer (IE)” at the department of “Industrial and Production Engineering (IPE)” in HOP LUN (BD) LTD, EPZ, Savar, Dhaka from February, 2008 to November, 2010.
    • Worked in a research project entitled “Molecular Gene Transfer for the Generation of Sal

    Marker Assisted Plant Breeding

    Tissue Culture

    Project Investigation

    Guiding and supervising the staffs.

    National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship

    Lal Teer Seed Limited, Anchor Tower, 108, Bir Uttam C. R. Dutta Road, Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh
    Sr. Manager & Head

    DNA Fingerprinting of rice and vegetable,

    Genetic hybridity and purity test,

    Biotic and abiotic stress tolerant variety selection through Marker Assisted Selection (MAS),

    Marker assisted plant breeding (MAPB),

    Agarose gel electrophoresis,

    PAGE, Quantification,

    Conventional breeding,

    Screening for salinity, submergence and drought tolerance in rice,

    Transformation,

    Tissue culture of zinger, banana, lilium, potato, strawberry etc

    1. Mohammad Mahbubul Haque1*, Md. Nazmul Hasan Mehedi2, Jannatul Farthouse1, Afruza Sultana3, Ismat Ara4 and Sushmita Dey4, 2024. Detection of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus using molecular techniques in citrus mutants from Bangladesh, Bioscience Research, 21(1):143-149.

    2. Afruza Sultana, Mirza Mofazzal Islam, Lutful Hassan, Rumana Rahman and Mohammad Mahbubul Haque, 2019. Marker Assisted Selection Approach for Identification of Salinity-Submergence Tolerant Rice Genotypes through Microsatellite Markers, J. Agrofor. Environ, 13(1 & 2): 73-76.

    3. Afruza Sultana, Mirza Mofazzal Islam, Afia Sultana and Mst. Sifate Rabbana Khanom, 2020. Screening of Rice Genotypes for Submergence Stress at Seedling Stage, J. Agrofor. Environ. 13(1 & 2): 13-16.

    4. Afruza Sultana, Mirza Mofazzol Islam, Lutful Hassan, Mst. Sifate Rabbana Khanom, Mst. Khadija Khatun. 2020. Evaluation of Rice Genotypes for Salinity Tolerance at the Seedling Stage. Agroforestry Society of Bangladesh, C/O: Department of Agroforestry, BAU, Mymensingh-2202.

    5. Sultana, A., Hassan, L. Ahmad, S.D., Shah, A.H., Batool, F., Islam, M.A., Rahman, R. and Moonmoon, S. 2009. In Vitro Regeneration of Ginger Using Leaf, Shoot Tip and Root Explants. Pakistan J. of Bot. 41(4): 1667-1676.

    6. Sultana, A., Hassan, L., Islam, M.A., Rahman, R. and Moonmoon, S. 2007. In vitro regeneration of Ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.) using leaf, shoot tip and root as explants. Bangladesh J. Crop Sci. 18 (2): 287-293.

    7. Moonmoon, S., Nasiruddin, K.M., Sultana, A. and Siddiqui, M.S.I. 2011. Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Markers (RAPD) for Genetic Variation Study among Tomato Varieties. Intl. J. BioRes. 11 (2): 1-7.

    8. Rahman, R., Bhuyan, M.A.A., Sultana, A., Robin A.B.M.A.H.K. and Hassan, L. 2007.   Filament culture of oilseed Brassica in B5 media. Bangladesh J. Crop Sci. 18 (2): 301-306.