Raheela Rehman, from Pakistan, is a PhD candidate in the Molecular Biology, Genetics and Bioengineering Program of Sabanci University in Turkey. Upon completion of her MS in Plant Breeding and Genetics, she joined the National Agricultural Research Centre, Pakistan, as scientific officer in the Wheat Breeding Program and simultaneously has been involved in different research projects of CIMMYT, ICARDA, and USDA-ARS. In her doctoral research, she conducts studies for better understanding and characterization of differences in root absorption and translocation of zinc in wheat and maize plants and also in various wheat genotypes from Pakistan developed by HarvestPlus with high grain zinc concentrations.