Dr. Kapil Gupta

Kapil Gupta is an Assistant Professor at Siddharth University, Kapilvastu in Biotechnology. His research focus on abiotic stress signaling as well as metabolites from medicinal plants specially the biosynthesis pathways of delphidine, taraxerol in medicinal plant ‘Aparajita’ and engineering terpenoid pathway in Ocimum sp. by targeting YABBY TFs at CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow. He obtained postgraduate degree in Biotechnology from Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University. Later he obtained Ph D degree from CSIR- CSMCRI Bhavnagar, Gujarat on Functional analysis of DREB Transcription Factor from a halophyte Salicornia brachiata for abiotic stress tolerance in 2013. After that he pursued postdoctoral research at Agriculture Research Organization, Israel on Transcriptome analysis of peanut seed and shell development. Later he worked as postdoctoral fellow at Central University of Rajasthan, India on Transcription Factors associated with abiotic stress and secondary metabolism in tomato. His research work has been published in International and National Journals like BMC Plant Biology, Plant Science, Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal of Experimental Botany, Food Research International, Plant Cell Reports, Planta etc..

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