Maryam Jafarkhani Kermani

Maryam Jafarkhani Kermani (Persian: مریم جعفرخانی کرمانی‎) is an associate professor & Iranian woman scientist whose main research area has been focused on tissue culture and breeding new plant material using modern biotechnological methods. She graduated from the University of East London, UK, and spent the postdoc course at King's College, London University, UK. She has carried out many research projects mainly on the plants in the Rosaceous family.

Kermani has supervised many MSc and PhD students who have successfully graduated.She has served as "Head of Technology Transfer Administration of Agriculture and Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran" (ABRII) for more than 5 years and she is currently an "elected member of the board of Iranian Society for Ornamental Plants" and a member of the board of directors of Iranian Journal of Ornamental Plants (ISOP) and "the editor in chief of the Iranian Journal of Ornamental Plants" (IJOP) and the Coordinator of ECO Agricultural Biotechnology Network.

• Production of four new varieties of roses: Two new tetraploids from diploid roses and three new hexaploids from triploid roses.
• Patent in Iran: A protocol for mass production of apple rootstocks.
• Patent in Iran: A protocol to induce chromosome doubling in plants.
• Patent in Iran: A protocol for mass production of 15 rose cultivars
• Publication of more than 30 research papers in the international Journals
• Publication of more than 10 research papers in the national Journals
• The protocol for mass production of apple rootstocks using tissue culture
• The protocol for micropropagation of large-fruit jujube-tree (Ziziphus jujuba)
• Completion of 30 Research Projects
• Supervising of more than 30 MSc and PhD students
• Holding and lecturing scientific of more than 10 workshops

Scientific achievements at pilot stage

• Virus elimination and detection in apple rootstocks and cultivars

• Receiving the award from the President of Iran in 2008
• Receiving the award from the Minister of Agriculture of Iran in 2010
• Title of top researcher of the Ministry of Agriculture of Iran in 2010