Dr. Md. A. Aziz Qureshi

Dr. Md. A. Aziz Qureshi
Designation
Principal Scientist, Soil Science
Educational qualification
M.Sc & Ph.D (Soil science & Ag.Chemistry), PG Diploma (Chemical Analysis and Quality Management)
Division
Crop Production
Contact Address

Indian Institute of Oilseeds Research,
Rajendranagar, Hyderabad,
Telangana, India- 500030

Tel No
040-24598150
E-mail
aziz.qureshi@icar.org.in
Projects completed

Institute Projects

  1. Studies on phosphorus acquisition in sunflower genotypes suitable for low fertility soil environment (Completed as PI)
  2. Long-term fertilizer studies for sustainable sorghum-sunflower production in Alfisols (Completed as Co-PI)
  3. Nutrient management in castor and suitability of castor genotypes for rabi season (Completed as Co-PI)
  4. Screening safflower core germplasm against salinity (on-going as Co-PI)
  5. Conservational Agriculture in Castor under rainfed in red sandy soils (on-going as Co-PI)
  6. Development of organic management module in sesame crop grown in Vertisols (on-going as Co-PI)
  7. Effect of crop geometry, nutrient management and kharif crops on safflower performance under BBF in rainfed situation (on-going as Co-PI)
  8. Long term fertilizers effect on Maize-castor cropping system in Alfisols (on-going as C0-PI)

External Funded Projects

  1. Evaluation of selenium status in Indian type onion and garlic and interaction of Se on nutrition of onion and its quality (PI)
  2. Bridging the production gaps in potential districts of sunflower and sesame through dynamic technology transfer. (Co-PI)
  3. Development of practicable technologies for field level exploitation of consortia of microbial agents as ameliorators of biotic and abiotic stresses in crops. (Co-PI)
  4. Development of practicable technologies for field level exploitation of entophytic Trichoderma for amelioration biotic and abiotic stresses in crops. (Co-PI)
  5. Competitive oilseeds production technologies for improving profitability and socio-economic conditions of small holders in rainfed oilseeds production system of Telangana (Co-PI)
  6. Establishment of Biotech-KISAN Hub at Agri-Biotech Foundation, Hyderabad. It is a collaborative project with ABF-Hyderabad. (Partner Institute PI) 
On-going Projects
  1. Screening sunflower genotypes for phosphorus acquisition (PI)
  2. Long-term fertilizer studies for sustainable sunflower production in Alfisols (Co-PI)
  3. Site Specific integrated nutrient management for sunflower-groundnut cropping system (Co-PI)
  4. Long-term fertilizer studies soybean- sunflower cropping system in Vertisols (Co-PI)
  5. Productivity and nutrient use of sunflower in sequential cropping systems in vertisols (Co-PI)
  6. Conservational agricultural and nutrient management practices in castor-sorghum cropping system in Alfisols under rainfed conditions (Co-PI)
  7. Standardization and development of microencapsulation technique for Beauveria bassisana spores (Co-PI)
Trainings undertaken (National & International)
  1. Use of computers in Agricultural research at IASRI, New Delhi in 1999
  2. Horticultural crop production under climatic constraints at Rehovat, Israel in 2000
  3. Human resource management in agricultural research system at NAARM, Hyderbad in 2006
  4. Application of SAS (statiscal package) in agricultural research at NAARM, Hyderbad in 2010
  5. Carbon sequestration and carbon trading at ICRISAT, Hyderbad in 2012
Recent Publications (best papers in past 5 years )
  1. A. Vishnuvardhan Reddy and A. Aziz Qureshi*.2019. AICRP on Oilseeds: Salient Research Achievements on Crop Nutrition Requirement and Soil Health Management. Indian Journal of Fertilisers, 15 (5): 546-561 (*Corresponding author)
  2. V. Ramamurthy, G.D. Satish Kumar, M. A. Aziz Qureshi and B.P. Bhaskar. 2019.  Performance of Sunflower in Relation to Soil Types and Management Levels. Int. J. Curr. Microbiol. App. Sci. 8(10): 1186-1195
  3. Raghavendra Singh, R.K. Avasthe, Subhash Babu, Abhishek Singh, Puscal Sharma, Vrushali, Md. A. Aziz Qureshi (2018). Varietal screening of sesamum (Sesamum indicum L.) under organic management in mid hills of Sikkim. Indian Journal of Hill Farming December, 31(2): 365-368
  4. Raghavendra Singh, R.K. Avasthe, Subhash Babu, Abhishek Singh, Puscal Sharma, Vrushali, Md. A. Aziz Qureshi (2018). Performance of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) hybrids under organic management conditions in mid hills of Sikkim. Indian Journal of Hill Farming December, 31(2): 249-253
  5. A. Aziz Qureshi, R. K. Singh, D. Sen, L. K. Baishya,  A. P. Singh, A. Vishnuvardhan Reddy and D. Pati (2018). Evaluation of sunflower hybrids for their suitability in North Eastern Hill Regions of India. Journal of Oilseeds Research. 35(1):45-47
  6. Siddiqua, M., Sharma, S.H.K, Aziz Qureshi, A*. and Laxminarayana, P. (2018). Assessment Of Potassium Supplying Capacity of Soils of Nalgonda District of Telangana State through Neubauer Seedling Technique.  International  Journal of Pure and  Applied Bioscience. 6(1): 551-555. (*Corresponding author)
  7. A. Aziz Qureshi, R. D. Prasad, A. Kulkarni, T. Navaneeta, P.  Lakshmamma, K. S. Varaprasad and A. Vishnuvardhan Reddy (2017). Selection of Trichoderma strains for salinity stress and evaluation for imparting salinity tolerance in sunflower. Journal of Oilseeds Research. 34(4):205-208
  8. Meraj Siddiqua, SHK Sharma, Aziz Qureshi MA and Laxminarayana P. (2016). Status of Potassium in Soils of Nalgonda District. The J. Res. PJTSAU. 44(1&2): 84-89
  9. Venugopal, G; SHK Sharma; A. Aziz Qureshi, S. N. Sudhakara Babu, and GECH. Vidya Sagar.( 2016). Potassium uptake by Sorghum and Potassium Fractions in Soil under Long term Fertilization and Manuring. The Bioscan, 11(2): 1159-1162
  10. Aziz Qureshi A and Lakshmi Prayaga. 2016. Identification of critical P level for sunflower in solution culture for P acquisition. J. Oilseeds Research. 33(1): 79-82
  11. G Venugopal, S H K Sharma, Abdul Aziz Qureshi and Chandrasekar Rao Palli (2015). Sorghum Yield and Nutrient Uptake under Long Term Nutrient Management Practices in Sorghum-Sunflower Cropping System in an Alfisol. Onternational Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Biotechnology. 8(4): 899-906
  12. G Venugopal, S H K Sharma, A Aziz Qureshi, Venureddy Challa and Laxmi Kashyap (2015). Soil Enzyme Activity and Organic Carbon Fractions under Permanent Plot Experiment after fifteen years of Sorghum Cropping on an Alfisol. Research Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 6(3): 557-562
  13. Suresh G, Sudhakara Babu, S.N. and Aziz Qureshi, A. 2015. Productivity and Nutrient use of sunflower in sequential cropping system in Vertisols. Journal of Oilseeds Research, 32(1): 137-139
Area of expertise

Soil Fertility: Integrated nutrient management, identification of nutrient deficiencies and uptake studies, effect of major and micronutrients on biochemical and quality parameters of onion and garlic crops. Fertility changes in long term fertilimanagement in sunflower based cropping system in Alfisols and vertisols. Soil quality assessment

Soil Chemistry: Effect of saline water and manures on growth of tree crops and changes in soil properties, characterization of selenium status in Indian type onion and garlic,Interaction of selenium and sulphur on biochemical and quality parameters of onion and garlic, charecterization of physico-chemical properties of  soil

Soil Microbiology: P solubiliztion through microbes, P requirement of field crops. Influence of legume crops on the soil enzyme activity and their effect on onion and garlic crops.Crop residue and sno oil organic carbon, soil enzyme activities, plant growth promoting micro-organisms and soil quality assessment in long term fertilizer trials

Awards and recognition
  1. ICAR-Junior Research Fellow in M Sc (Ag) Soil Science (2nd Rank)
  2. IARI- Senior Research Fellow for PhD
  3. Commendable letter of recognition as Best Participant in winter school on “System Approach to Plant Nutrition for Sustainable Crop Production” During Sep 18 to Oct 8, 2002 at DOR, Hyderabad.
  4. Accreditation as Research guide for MSc and PhD students in the Div. of Soil Science and Agriculture Chemistry, PJTSAU, Hyderabad, Telangana.
  5. Guided 4 students: 3 MSc  (1 major guide and 2 minor guide) and one PhD (minor guide) 
  6. Treasurer, Indian Society for Oilseeds Research, ICAR-IIOR, Hyderabad (2016-18)
  7. Councilor for Indian Society of Alliums, ICAR-DOGR, Rajgurunagar, Dist. Pune (2015-17)
  8. Joint Editor, Journal of Allium Research, ICAR-DOGR, Rajgurunagar, Dist. Pune
  9. Best poster award (First) Title: "Soil fertility changes and enzyme activity after sorghum due to long term nutrient management practices in sorghum-sunflower cropping system in Alfisols". In: National seminar on "Strategic interventions to enhance oilseeds production in India" during Feb 19-21, 2015 at ICAR- DRMR, Bharatpur
  10. Nodal Officer: For conducting, monitoring and reporting of ICAR-IIOR Oilseeds Research and Development Programme for NEH Region since 2016
  11. Commendable letter of recognition as Best Participant in Short course training programme during 2019 at ICAR-IISS, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
  12. Best poster award, Title: Role of biopolymer based Trichoderma in plant growth promotion and mitigation of drought stress in groundnut. In: National seminar on "Technological Innovations in Oilseed Crops for Enhancing Productivity, Profitability and Nutritional Security" during Feb 7-8, 2020 at ICAR- IIOR, Hyderabad
Any other relevant information
  • ICAR Junior Fellowship for Post Graduate in 1989-90 (2nd rank)
  • IARI Senior Fellowship for PhD in 1994

Location

Contact

Director
Indian Institute of Oilseeds Research
Rajendranagar
Hyderabad – 500 030
Phone: 040-24598444, 24016141
Fax: 040-24017969
E-mail: director.iior@icar.gov.in

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