- To produce rice which can grow in the saline-affected soils in the coast of Bangladesh. In order to do this resources for salt tolerance donors need to be identified and characterized. Her team has therefore characterized many rice landraces which have evolved in coastal areas and are expected to be salt tolerant.
- Investigating the mechanism of salt tolerance of various salt tolerant rice landraces.
- Establishing DNA marker-based breeding/backcrossing for development of salt tolerant strains of rice. Development of efficient molecular tags to quickly identify progenies with target loci of interest.
- Characterizing and validating genes identified through differential expression for their role in salt tolerance by over-expression or downregulation by using crispr-Cas9 in transgenic rice.
- Establishment a very effective and efficient genotype-independent in planta method for rice transformation.
- Use of wild halophytic rice as s resource for tolerance in commercial rice.
- Characterizing endophytic bacteria associated with wild rice and salt tolerant landraces for their ability to help rice plants grow better in saline soil.