Professor Ahmed Abd El-Hakim El-Bakry
Botany and Microbiology Department
Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Ain Helwan 11790, Cairo, Egypt
Academic Background
Ph.D., Molecular and Cell Genetics program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA, 1988.
Fellowships
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, 1989.
Visiting scientist, Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA, 1993
Visiting scientist, Biotechnology Conservation Unit, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, UK, 2011.
Research Project Affiliations
National Agricultural Genetic Engineering Lab Project. UNDP, 1990 – 1992
Micropropagation of medicinal plant, (Urginea maritima) and production of active constituents from tissue culture. Helwan University, 2002 – 2003
Production of biologically active compounds from cell and tissue culture of wild medicinal plants from Egypt. Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt. National Strategy for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. 2004 – 2009
Biotechnology for the propagation and ex situ conservation of threatened plant species from Sinai, Egypt. Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF), Egypt, 2009 – 2013.
Research Interests
Using plant cell and tissue culture techniques as well as gene transfer technology towards the improvement and micropropagation of selected field and horticultural crops, and towards answering basic questions about morphogenesis in vitro and in vivo
In vitro conservation of rare and endangered species
Micropropagation and active constituent production from tissue culture of wild medicinal plants, in particular rare, endangered and endemic species
Publications
El-Bakry A.A. 2002. Effect of genotype, growth regulators, carbon source and pH on shoot induction in tomato in vitro cultures. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. – Plant 38: 501-507.
Fahmy A.G. and El-Bakry A.A. 2011. Phytogeographical significance of Wadi Wateer (Sinai), Egypt, with special reference to Cocculus hirsutus (L.) W.Theob. Plant Syst. Evol. 297: 299–303.
El-Bakry A.A., Hammad I.A. and Rafat F. A. 2014. Polymorphism in Calotropis procera: Preliminary genetic variation in plants from different phytogeographical regions of Egypt. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 25: 471–477.
Abdelsalam A, Mahran E, Chowdhury K, Boroujerdi A, El-Bakry A 2017. NMR based metabolomics analysis of wild, greenhouse, and in vitro regenerated shoots of Cymbopogon schoenanthus with GC–MS assessment of proximadiol. Physiol Mol Biol Plants 23:369–383.
Abdelsalam A., Chowdhury K., El-Bakry A. 2019. Genetic polymorphism of the wild and in vitro regenerated plants of the medicinal grass Cymbopogon schoenanthus. Not Sci Biol, 11: 222-232. .