Dr. Navin Chandra Gupta

Research Interest

• Use of genome engineering tools and other molecular and bioinformatics approaches to utilize them in oilseed Brassicacrop improvement program.

Arabidopsis thaliana

• This is a model plant species with a small genome size of 125 Mb related toBrassicafamily. Here I am using the T-DNA insertional mutagenesis for activation tagging to clone the genes governing plant stature and other agronomically significant phenotype. Further, the identified genes/promoters are being used to develop molecular understandings about the processes in which they are involved.

Brassica juncea

• Among the nine oilseed crops growing in India,Mustard is the second major oilseed crop next to groundnut and that are also used for vegetables and spices in northern part of the India. Here Genome editing/engineering tools like CRISPR/Cas9 system are being used to increase the Indian mustard productivity by targeting some specific genes or transcription factors to either suppress or induce their function in natural condition.