Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
The Biotechnology Research Unit was established at Agricultural Research Institute, Rajendranagar during November 1998 to carryout research in biotechnology. Later in the year 2001, Post graduation programme in Agri-Biotechnology was initiated. The Institute of Biotechnology was inaugurated on 23rd August 2009 by combining both teaching and Research components of Biotechnology and commenced from 21.06.2011. The mandate of the institute is development of human resource and capacity building in the area of agricultural biotechnology and improvement of agricultural crops through molecular breeding and transgenic approaches. The institute focuses on marker assisted breeding in rice which is major crop in the state by assisting plant breeders located in various research stations in varied agro ecologies. In addition, studies on genetic diversity, DNA fingerprinting, genetic purity assessment in rice chickpea green gram, black gram, soybean and maize are carried out. 30 projects worth more than 7 cores were executed in cereals, oil seeds, millets and pulses with the support of donors viz., USAID, DBT, DST, SERB, NASF and RKVY from this institute. 250 publications were published in reputed national and international journals.
Teaching Staff Details
| S.No. | Name | Designation | Field of Specialization | Passport Size Photo | Contact Details |
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| 1 | Dr. C.V. Sameer Kumar | Senior Professor & Director | Conventional and molecular breeding in castor, redgram, sorghum and pearl millet |
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venkatachanda1968@gmail.com |
| 2 | Dr. S. Vanisri | Professor (AL-15) | Conventional and molecular breeding in rice, pulses and oilseeds, molecular breeding in maize and soybean |
|
vanisree_dhar@yahoo.com |
| 3 | Dr. K. Sujatha | Associate Professor | Conventional breeding for Rabi Sorghum improvement and molecular marker assisted selection for Bacterial leaf blight resistance in rice. |
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sujatha_kalidindi@rediffmail.com |
| 4 | Dr. SNCVL Pushpavalli | Assistant Professor | Molecular and Conventional Breeding and Biotechnology in redgram, safflower and soybean |
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pushpapjtsau@gmail.com |
| 5 | Dr. J. Rajender | Assistant Professor | Plant Bacteriology and Host pathogen interaction |
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jraj.ra0680@gmail.com |
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