Final Year Project

Project Title

Characterization of Genetic Variations in two Local Varieties of Mango: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Description

Mango is one of the world’s major fruit crops. In Pakistan, mango is the most abundant fruit crop with production exceeding millions of tons. This project takes a multidisciplinary approach involving techniques from genomics, systems biology, and bioinformatics to understand the genomic architecture of mango. Two local varieties/cultivars of mangoes, Kaa’ala Chaunsa and Sindhri, were chosen because of their respective physical traits, amount of fibre content, and shelf life. The project identifies genetic variations in the selected mango variety at a genome-wide level and further characterizes them into different regions of the genes. It also identifies variations shared between or unique to sequenced cultivars. This project stemmed from a workshop on Computational Biology held at Habib University by LUMS professor Dr Aziz Mithani, who is also Anabia’s external advisor.