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Name: Dr. Abdul Samad Mumtaz
Designation: Professor
Department: Plant Sciences


Qualifications:
  • Ph.D.   Biosciences University of Birmingham, U.K.
  • M.Phil. Plant Sciences Quaid-i-Azam University
  • M.Sc.   Plant Sciences Quaid-i-Azam University


Phone: +92-51 9064-3072
Email: asmumtaz@qau.edu.pk
Status: On Job
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Research Interests Publications Conferences Research Projects

  • Biology and Genetics of Autotrophs
  • Plant and Algal Genetics
  • Phylogenetics and evolutionary Biology
  • Collection and Identification of Algae
  • Culturing of Green and Blue Green Algae
  • Biomass and Potentials of Algae

 

1.      New record of a cup fungus: Geopora sumneriana (Pyronemataceae) from Pakistan. Irfana Maqsad, Barkat Ali, Tasmia Bashir and Abdul Samad Mumtaz. Mycotaxon 136 (2). in press. 2021.

2.      Large-scale whole-genome sequencing unravels the domestication history of Cannabis sativa. Guangpeng Ren, Xu Zhang, Ying Li, Kate Ridout, Martha L. Serrano-Serrano, Yongzhi Yang, Ai Liu, Gudasalamani Ravikanth, Muhammad Ali Nawaz, Abdul Samad Mumtaz, Nicolas Salamin and Luca Fumagalli. Science Advances 7, eabg2286. 2021.

3.      Phytochemical Investigation, Antimicrobial, Antioxidant and Anticancer Activities of Acer cappadocicum Gled. Kausar, F.; Farooqi, M.A.; Salih, A.R.C.; Khalil, A.A.K.; Kang, C.-w.; Mahmoud, M.H.; Batiha, G.E.-S.; Choi, K.H.; Mumtaz, A.S. Life 11(7):656. 2021.

4.      Taxonomy of Vincetoxicum s. str. (Asclepiadoideae, Apocynaceae) from southern Asia including three new species and resurrected names. Sayed Afzal Shah, Amir Sultan, Jun Wen, Zahid Ullah, Surat Un Nisa, Zhumei Ren, Muhammad Maqsood Alam, Javed Iqbal, Abdul Samad Mumtaz. PhytoKeys 179: 35–73. 2021.

5.      Role of Pyrroloquinoline Quinone in Biocontrol Together with Induced Systemic Resistance: A Novel Resource Trialed for Rice Disease Control. Muhammad Naveed, Abdul Samad Mumtaz and Mushtaq Ahmad Saleem. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology. in press. 2020.

6.      Diversity and abundance of climbers in relation to their hosts and elevation in the monsoon forests of Murree in the Himalayas. Amjad ur Rahman, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Zafeer Saqib, Zahid Ullah, Zeeshan Ahmad, Semih Ekercin, Abdul Samad Mumtaz and Habib Ahmad. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 52(2): 601-612. 2020.

7.      The in vitro Antibacterial and Antioxidant Potentials of Helvella bachu (Ascomycetes): A Newly Recorded Species from Pakistan. Hussain Badshah, Barkat Ali, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Muhmmad Ishtiaq Chaudhari, Surat Un Nisa, Lal Badshah, & Abdul Samad Mumtaz. International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, 22(10):1011 -1020. 2020.

8.      Jie Song, Jun-Feng Liang, Mehdi Mehrabi-Koushki, Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber, Barkat Ali, Vinod Kumar Bhatt, Agustín Cerna-Mendoza, Bin Chen, Zai-Xiong Chen, Hong-Long Chu, Mike Anderson Corazon-Guivin, Gladstone Alves da Silva, André De Kesel, Bálint Dima, Francesco Dovana, Reza Farokhinejad, Guliano Ferisin, Juan Carlos Guerrero-Abad, Ting Guo, Li-Hong Han, Sobia Ilyas, Alfredo Justo, Abdul Nasir Khalid, Sadigheh Khodadadi-Pourarpanahi, Tai-Hui Li, Chao Liu, Marilinda Lorenzini, Jun-Kun Lu, Abdul Samad Mumtaz, Fritz Oehl, Xue-Yu Pan, Viktor  Papp, Wu Qian, Abdul Razaq, Kamal C. Semwal, Li-Zhou Tang, Xue-Lian Tian,  Adela Vallejos-Tapullima, Nicolaas A. van der Merwe, Sheng-Kun Wang, Chao-Qun Wang,  Rui-Heng Yang,  Fei Yu1, Giacomo Zapparoli, Ming Zhang, Vladimir  Antonín, André Aptroot, Ali Aslan, Arghya Banerjee, Subrata Chatterjee, Alden C. Dirks, Leila Ebrahimi, Khalil-Berdi Fotouhifar, Youbert  Ghosta, Lyudmila B. Kalinina, Dilara Karahan, Jingyu Liu, Mrinal Kumar Maiti, Abhirup Mookherjee, Partha Sarathi Nath, Birendranath Panja, Jayanta Saha, Hana ševcˇíková,  Hermann Voglmayr, Kenan Yazıc & Danny Haelewaters. Fungal Systematics and Evolution: FUSE 5. Sydowia 71: 141-241. 2019.

9.      Stomatal novelties in Vincetoxicum arnottianum (Asclepiadeae: Asclepiadoideae: Apocynaceae) Surat Un Nisa, Sayed Afzal Shah, Abdul Samad Mumtaz and Amir Sultan. Flora 260: 151464. 2019.

10.   Isolation and Characterization of Microalgae from Diverse Pakistani Habitats: Exploring Third-Generation Biofuel Potential. Muhammad Maqsood Alam, Abdul Samad Mumtaz, Megan Russell, Melanie Grogger, Don Veverka and Patrick C. Hallenbeck. Energies 12(14): 2660 -2677, 2019.

11.   Berberis lycium: the newly discovered aecial host of Puccinia striiformoides. Barkat Ali, Younas Sohail, Kinza Ghazal, Javed Iqbal, Hussain Badshah, Abdul Samad Mumtaz. Mycotaxon 133(3): 439-447, 2018.

12.   Vincetoxicum luridum (Asclepiadeae, Asclepiadoideae, Apocynaceae), a new and long misunderstood endemic species from Balochistan, Pakistan. Sayed Afzal Shah, Abdul Samad Mumtaz, Jun Wen, Surat Un Nisa, Javed Iqbal, Xu Su, Amir Sultan: Phytotaxa 357(2), 2018.

13.   In silico functional and tumor suppressor role of hypothetical protein PCNXL2 with regulation of the Notch signaling pathway. Muhammad Naveed, Komal Imran, Ayesha Mushtaq, Abdul Samad Mumtaz, Hussnain A. Janjua, Nauman Khalid. RSC Advances 8(38):21414-21430, 2018.

14.   First record of Morchella pulchella from Pakistan. Hussain Badshah, Barkat Ali, Sayed Afzal Shah, Muhammad Maqsood Alam, Hamed Isamail Aly, Abdul Samad Mumtaz. Mycotaxon 15.   133(1) 2018.

16.   Lectotypification of the Linnaean name Lobelia coronopifolia (Campanulaceae). Raees Khan, Sheikh Zain UL Abidin, Abdul Samad Mumtaz, Fahim Altinordu, Alexander Sennikov. Phytotaxa; 331(1):144-146., 2017.

17.   Phragmidium  punjabense,  a  new  species  of  rust  fungus  on  Rosa  brunonii  in  the  outer Himalayan ranges of Murree, Pakistan. Barkat Ali & Younas Sohail, Abdul Samad Mumtaz and Reinhard Berndt. Nova Hedwigia 105(3-4): 385-396. 2017.

18.   Puccinia aizazii, a new rust fungus on Jasminum humile from foothills of Himalayan ranges. Barkat Ali & Younas Sohail and Abdul Samad Mumtaz. Sydowia 69: 131-134. 2017.

19.   Taxonomic implications of foliar epidermis in Impatiens (Balsaminaceae): Investigating 12 Pakistani taxa as an example. F. Rahman, M. Ahmad, M. Zafar, A. S. Mumtaz & S. A. SHAH. Plant Biosystems 151(4):  642-648. 2017.

20.   Melampsora pakistanica sp. nov., a new rust fungus on Euphorbia helioscopia (Sun spurge) from Pakistan. Barkat Ali & Younas Sohail, Merje Toome-Heller and Abdul Samad Mumtaz. Mycological Progress 15(12): 1285-1292. 2016.

21.   New host records of rust fungi (Pucciniales) from Pakistan. B. Ali, Y. Sohail & A.S. Mumtaz. Mycotaxon, 131(2): 503-509. 2016.

22.   First record of Pileolaria terebinthi (Pucciniales) in Pakistan. Ali, B.; Sohail, Y.; Mumtaz, A.S. Mycotaxon, 131(2): 403-405. 2016.

23.   Documenting the indigenous knowledge on medicinal flora from communities residing near swat river (Suvastu) and in high mountainous areas in Swat-Pakistan. Sayed Afzal Shah, Naseer Ali Shah, Shafi Ullah, Muhammad Maqsood Alam, Hussain Badshah, Sana Ullah, Abdul Samad Mumtaz. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 182: 67-79. 2016.

24.   L-asparaginase as a critical component to combat Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL): A novel approach to target ALL. Usman Ali, Muhammad Naveed, Abid Ullah, Khadija Ali, Sayed Afzal Shah, Shah Fahad, Abdul Samad Mumtaz. European Journal of Pharmacology, 771: 199-210. 2016.

25.   Going West - a subtropical lineage (Vincetoxicum, Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae) expanding into Europe. Liede-Schumann, S., Khanum, R., Mumtaz, A. S., and Gherghel, I. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 94: 436-446. 2016.

26.   Introgression lines obtained from the cross between Triticum aestivum and Triticum turgidum (durum wheat) as a source of leaf and stripe (yellow) rust resistance genes. N. Ullah, M. Asif, H. Badshah, T. Bashir, A. S. Mumtaz. Turkish Journal of Biology, 40(3): 547-553. 2016.

27.   The life history of Pyrrologquinoline Quinone (PQQ):  a versatile molecule with novel impacts on living systems.  Muhammad Naveed, Komal Tariq, Haleema Sadia, Haroon Ahmad, Abdul Samad Mumtaz. International Journal of Molecular Biology-Open Access. 1(1): 00005. 2016.

28.   A Perspective of Leaf Rust Race FHPRN and its Impact on Leaf Rust Resistance in Pakistani Wheat Varieties. Younas Sohail, Zabta Khan Shinwari, Muhammad Fayyaz, A.U. R. Rattu, Abdul Samad Mumtaz. Pakistan Journal of Botany 47(4): 1559-1567. 2015.

29.   Evaluation of glucose dehydrogenase and pyrroloquinoline quinine (pqq) Mutagenesis that renders functional inadequacies in host plants. M. Naveed, Y. Sohail, N. Khalid, I. Ahmed, and A. S. Mumtaz. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 25(8): 1349–1360. 2015.

30.   Pharmacological activities of selected wild mushrooms of South Waziristan (FATA), Pakistan. Badshah H., Ullah F., Khan M. U., Mumtaz A. S. and Malik, R. N. South African Journal of Botany. 97: 107-110. 2015.

31.   Phytochemical analysis of Hibiscus caesius using high performance liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. Qurat ul Ain, Muhammad Naveed, Abdul Samad Mumtaz, Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria and Nauman Khalid. Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 28 (5): 1625-1629. 2015.

32.   SSR markers linked to seed size and seed weight in local and exotic chickpea germplasm reported from Pakistan. Zakia Ahmad, Mohammad Nisar, Abdul Samad Mumtaz, Abdul Ghafoor and Shahid Ali. Pakistan Journal of Botany 46(6): 2113-2120. 2014.

33.   Marker assisted selection of chickpea Fusarium oxysporium wilt resistant genotypes using PCR based molecular markers. Ahmad Z., Mumtaz A. S., Ghafoor A., Ali A., Nisar M. Molecular Biology Reports. 41:6755-6762, 2014.

34.   Identification of Lr28-linked co-dominant molecular marker in wheat. Sohail Y., Bansal U., Bariana H., Chhuneja P., Mumtaz A. S., Rattu A., Trethowan R. Australian Journal of Crop Sciences 8(8): 1210-1215, 2014.

35.   Identification and characterization of Rhizospheric microbial diversity by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Naveed M., Mubeen S., Khan S., Ahmed I., Khalid N., Ansar H., Suleria R., Bano A. and Mumtaz A. S. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology 45(3):985-993, 2014.

36.   Structural characterization of GCD gene and growth promoting activity of Leclercia sp. QAU-66. Naveed M., Ahmed I., Khalid N., and Mumtaz A. S. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, (Brazil), 45(2): 603-611, 2014.

37.   The diversity of Rhizobia, Sinorhizobia and novel non-Rhizobial Paenibacillus nodulating wild herbaceous legumes. Latif S., Khan S., Naveed M., Mustafa G., Bashir T. and Mumtaz A. S. Archives of Microbiology 195: 647-653, 2013.

38.   The LC-MS/MS profiling of AHLs produced in Sinorhizobium meliloti nodulating Alysicarpus bupleuriolius. Khan S., Mumtaz A. S., Mustafa G., Naveed M., Downie A. Pakistan Journal of Botany 45(6): 2037-2041, 2013.

39.   Predicting impacts of climate change on medicinal Asclepiads of Pakistan using Maxent modeling. Khanum R., Mumtaz A. S. and Kumar S. Acta Oecologica 49: 23-31, 2013.

40.   Evaluation of genetic diversity in different genotypes of Eruca sativa from Pakistan by SDS- Page analysis. Shinwari S., Akbar F., Rabbani A., Mumtaz A. S. and Shinwari Z. K. Pakistan Journal of Botany 45(4): 1235-1240. 2013.

41.   Leaf rust resistance in semi-dwarf wheat cultivars: a conspectus of post green revolution period in Pakistan. Mustafa G., Alam M. M., Khan S., Naveed M. and Mumtaz A. S. Pakistan Journal of Botany. 45 (SI): 415-422, 2013.

42.   Genetic divergence in Taramera (Eruca sativa L.)  germplasm based on quantitative and qualitative characters. Shinwari S., Mumtaz A. S., Rabbani M. A., Akbar F. and Shinwari Z. K. Pakistan Journal of Botany 45 (SI): 375-381, 2013.

43.   Genetic Characterization of Novel Lr Gene Stack in Spring Wheat Variety Chakwal86 and its Effectiveness against Leaf Rust in Rain Fed Areas of Pakistan. Rasheed A, Mumtaz A. S. and Shinwari Z. K. Pakistan Journal of Botany 44(2): 507-510, 2012.

44.   Probing genetic diversity to characterize red rot resistance in Sugarcane. Mumtaz A. S., Dur-e- Nayab, Javed M. and Shinwari Z. K. Pakistan Journal of Botany 43(5): 2513-2517, 2011.

45.   Assessment of genetic diversity and germination pattern in selected cotton genotypes of Pakistan. (Accepted). Mumtaz, A. S., Muhammad, N. and Shinwari, Z.K. Pakistan Journal of Botany (Pakistan). 2010.

46.   A molecular study of genetic diversity in Shisham. Muhammad, A., Mumtaz, A. S., Riasat, R. Pakistan Journal of Botany. (Pakistan). 42(1): 79-88. 2010.

47.   Evaluating the agro-morphological variation in Panicum antidotale retz. in Cholistan desert. Nisar, M.F., Mumtaz, A. S. Muhammad, A. Majeed, A., Hussain, K. and Nawaz, K. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology (Pakistan) 12: 416–420. 2010.

48.   Ultrastructural study of synaptonemal complex in meiocytes of Datura innoxia. Muhammad, A., Mumtaz, A. S. and Khan, M. A. Pakistan Journal of Botany (Pakistan). 40(4): 1809-1815. 2008.

49.   Isolation, Purification and Characterization of Alpha Amylase from Citrus sinensis. Muhammad, A., Yasin, M., Mumtaz, A. S. and Hina, I. Journal of Chemical Society of Pakistan. (Pakistan) 30(2): 264-270. 2008.

50.   Lysine requirement of Broiler Chickens fed low-density diets under tropical conditions. Aftab, U., Muhammad, A., Mumtaz, A. S. and Jiang, Z. Asian Australian Journal of Animal Sciences (Korea). 20 (6): 939-943. 2007.

51.   Characterization of Alpha Amylase from Date (Phoenix dactylifera). Muhammad, A., Mumtaz, A. S. and Yasin, M. Journal of Chemical Society of Pakistan. (Pakistan) 29(6):624-627. 2007.

52.   Diagnosis of heavy metal contamination in agro-ecology of Gujranwala, Pakistan using cattle egret (Bulbulcus ibis) as bioindicator. Bostan, N., Muhammad, A., Mumtaz, A. S. and Ahmed, I. Ecotoxicology (United Kingdom). 16: 247-251. 2007.

53.   The collection and ecogeography of non-cultivated peas (Pisum L.) from Syria. Mumtaz, A. S., Shehadeh, A., Ambrose, M., Ellis, T. H. N. and Maxted. N. Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter (Italy). 146: pp. 3-8. 2006.

54.   Pollinarium morphology in Ceropegia bulbosa Roxb. and allies from Pakistan. Sultan, A., Mumtaz, A.S., Ahmed, Z., Mehboob, F. and Khan, M.A. Asklepios (United Kingdom) 94: 12-15. 2005.

55.   Leaf Epidermal Anatomy of Medicinal Grasses of Islamabad, Attock and Mirpur (A. K.) Chaudary, M. I., Mumtaz, A. S. and Khan. M. A. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences (Pakistan). 4 (12). pp. 1466-1469. 2001.

56.   Taxonomic studies in the genus Artemisia L. from Murree and Hazara. Mumtaz, A. S., Khan, M. A. and Qureshi, R. A. Hamdard Medicus (Pakistan). 44 (3) pp. 72-78. 2001.

57.   Palynological studies in Artemisia L. Mumtaz, A. S., Khan, M. A. and Akhtar, T. Pakistan Journal of Forestry (Pakistan). 50 (1). pp. 57-65. 2000.



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