Externally Funded Projects
Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics
We are interested in understanding how heat tolerant crop varieties in rice and tomato overcome "Reproductive Stage Heat Stress". The discovery of genes contributing to "heat tolerance" at the time of flowering, reproduction and fruit / seed set will enable development of "truly" heat tolerant varieties (Project-BR-01)
Microbiology
My collabarators are interested to identify genes from microbes that augment zinc nutrition (Project -BR-02)Â