Dr. Javaid Akhter Bhat is an academic researcher from the State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement at Nanjing Agricultural University (Nanjing, China). He graduated from Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu. His research interests include Microsatellites, Quantitative Trait Loci, Next Generation Sequencing, Germplasm, and SSR.