Thermotolerance in Crop Plants

Heat stress in wheat: adaptation strategies.- Molecular markers mediated heat stress tolerance in crop plants.- Physiology of crop yield under heat stress.- Physiological traits for improving heat stress tolerance in plants.- Understanding the mechanism of high temperature stress effect and tolerance in wheat.- Reactive Oxygen Species - Friend or Foe.- CDPKs based signalling network: Protecting the wheat from heat.- Heat Shock Proteins: Catalytic Chaperones involved in Modulating Thermotolerance in Plants.- Starch metabolism under heat stress.- Heat stress and grain quality.- Omics tools and techniques for study of defense mechanism in plants.- Induced mutagenesis for high temperature tolerance in crop plants.- CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing to enhance heat stress tolerance in crop plants.- Genomics-enabled breeding for heat and drought stress tolerance in crop plants.

Dr. Ranjeet Ranjan Kumar has completed his UG from University of Agriculture Sciences, Bangalore and PhD from Division of Biochemistry, IARI, New Delhi. His research area is 'stress-genomics and nutritional fortification of millets'. Dr. Ranjan has elucidated several mechanism and modals of heat stress tolerance and remodeled the starch biosynthesis pathway in wheat. He has published more than 80 research papers, 5 Books, 15 Book chapters and several popular articles, bulletins and manuals in the areas of nutrition, stress tolerance and basic principle of Genetic Engineering. He has also guided 4 M.Sc. and 2 Ph.D. Students till date and 2 MSc and one Ph.D. student is presently working under his supervision. Dr. Ranjan has organized more than 8 Center for Advanced Faculty Training (CAFT) for the assistant professors and ARS scientists from ICAR institutes and SAUs. He has experience of handling more than 15 externally funded projects by various agencies viz., DST, DBT, BARC National Fund, etc. Dr. Ranjan has been accolade with various prestigious awards like young scientist award, young scientist associate award, scientist of the year award, etc. He is Fellow of Society of Applied Biotechnology (SAB) and recently been selected for the Associateship of The National Academy of Sciences, India.
Dr. Shelly Praveen has completed her PhD from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. Her research area is nutritional enhancement and development of strategies for biotic stress tolerance. She has experience of more than 27 years of research and teaching. She has elucidated several mechanisms of host virus interaction and successfully demonstrated the management of economically important viral diseases of tomato through transgenic resistance. Her work in developing the efficient plant transformation vectors and tomato transgenics has been licensed to seed industry for large scale testing and moving towards commercialization. She alsoworked on genomics and