Muhammad Irfan Zafar

Mr. Muhammad Irfan Zafar

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Biography

I am an agricultural entomologist specializing in insect biodiversity, molecular taxonomy, and integrated pest management (IPM) in arid agroecosystems. I completed my M.Sc. in Plant Protection at the College of Agriculture, Shihezi University, China, as a Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC) recipient under the supervision of Prof. Shaoshan Wang and hold a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Agriculture Entomology from the University College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Pakistan. My graduate research combined light-trap monitoring with DNA barcoding to characterize insect community structure in Xinjiang's arid agroecosystems, resulting in the identification of two insect species recorded for the first time in China. I also serve as a remote research assistant on IPM and crop-protection projects with Central Queensland University, Australia. My broader research interests include sustainable pest management strategies for open-field vegetable crops, molecular species identification, and GIS-based pest distribution modeling. I have co-authored multiple peer-reviewed publications on plant pathology and pest management in journals including Plant Protection, Journal of Agriculture and Biology, and Sarhad Journal of Agriculture.

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