The Govt of China under its “Government China Liaoning Scholarship” scheme has awarded scholarship for PhD study to a faculty member of at Botany department the University of Gujrat. Revealing the details of scholarship, Head of Botany Department Dr Abdul Majeed said that the scholarship has been awarded on “Genetic Analysis and Molecular Mapping of Race-Specific Resistance Genes of Rust Disease of Wheat”. He said that the study will be conducted both, in Shenyang Agricultural University, China under the supervision of Prof Dr Feng Lin and the University of Gujrat under the supervision of Dr Abdul Majeed. Study will help to identify the genes responsible for rust disease and to evolve healthy varieties of wheat against rust disease, he added.