Dr. Salman Ahmad is a wheat breeder focused on developing germplasm that performs reliably under disease pressure and climate stress. He has worked extensively on rust resistance, screening large sets of genotypes in disease nurseries and advancing resistant lines through selection. His research also targets heat and drought tolerance, using morpho-physiological traits such as canopy temperature, NDVI, chlorophyll content, stomatal conductance and stay-green behavior. He has evaluated diverse indigenous and exotic germplasm to identify donors with strong stress resilience and good yield potential. His work links field phenotyping with breeding, contributing to populations that combine disease resistance, high yield and improved stress tolerance. He has also supported collaborative trials, germplasm exchange andscreening of early generation genotypes. Through this combined approach, he contributes to developing wheat lines that are better adapted to harsh environments and more resilient to climate change.