ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Every praise is due to "Almighty Allah", King and Merciful, Who is entire source of
knowledge and wisdom endowed to mankind. He is Who what was there in the
universe, what is, and what will be. He has enabled me to elucidate a drop from
existing ocean of knowledge. Millions of blessing and mercies of Allah be upon
Holly Prophet, Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), the city of knowledge, who
guided the humanity from darkness of ignorance to the light of awareness.
It is with profound gratitude and deep sense of devotion that I thank my
supervisor, Dr. Abdul Manaf Assistant professor University of arid agriculture
Rawalpindi , for his dexterous supervision, impetus guidance, valuable and expert
suggestions and sympathetic attitude through out the progress of this study from
its design to writing, its pursuit to logical conclusion.
I have immense heartiest pleasure in expressing my gratitude to Mr. Sheraz Ali ,
principle scientist(head of department) , Mr. Manzoor Hussain , Scientific Officer
(Agronomy ) and Dr. Ghulam Nabi, Scientific Officer (plant breeding and
genetics ), Mr. Muhammad Zeeshan scientific officer (plant breeding and
genetics) , for their dynamic supervision, encouragement, keen interest,
constructive criticism and friendly attitude during the course of this study and also
for providing necessary facilities and inspiring guidance in the planning, execution
and writing up stage of this report.
I find no words to express my feelings for all my friends and family members ho
always encouraged and supported and prayed for my Success during the whole
course of study.

Muhammad Usayrim