Head of Division : Dr. P. K. Chonkar
Main activities of the Division in brief :
Main activities of the Division ar eto carry out research on the fundamental and applied aspects of the physical, chemical and biological properties of soils;
fertilizers an dmanures and their interaction with soil an dplant; improvement an dmaintenance of soil fertility fro sustained optimum agricultural production;
utilization of organic residues (wastes) as manure and production of biogas as fuel; soil test crop response correlation study; advice to the farmers on fertilizer
recommendations based on soil tests; post graduate teaching in Discipline of Soil Science
Projects in progress along with name of the Project Leaders :
Molecular Biology of storage proteins of wheat in relation to chapati
quality - Dr. R. P. Johari.
Isolation and characterisation of antipathogenic principles from non-host plants - Dr. H. C. Kapoor
Biochemical studies on rice-grain aroma and flavour - Dr. S. P. Singh
Biochemical and molecular studies on cytochrome-oxidase insensitivity for carbon monoxide in cereals and millets - Dr. Prikshayat Singh
Isolation and characterization of genes involved in lipid biosynthesis - Dr. I. M. Santha
Isolation and identification of genes associated with moisture stress in rice - Dr. Aruna Tyagi
List of Post Graduate courses offered
Basic Biochemistry-I, Nutritional Biochemistry, Techniques in Biochemistry-I, Nucleic Acid, Genetic Engineering, Advance Course in Nutritional Biochemistry, Biochemistry of Food Grains, Plant Biochemistry, Intermediary Metabolism, Inorganic Nitrogen Metabolism, Biochemisstry of Plant Diseases, Protein Biosynthesis, Lipid Biochemisty, Techniques in Biochemistry-II, Biochemistry of Photosynthesis, Enzymology, Gene Regulation, Introduction to Biomembranes.
National/International Seminars/Training
