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Dr. Sarmistha Barthakur
Dr. Sarmistha Barthakur
Principal Scientist
Email Id :
Sharmistha[dot]Barthakur[at]icar[dot]gov[dot]in
Phone :
9871353867 Discipline: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Education:
Ph.D. (Plant Biotechnology), Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam
Post Doctorate: University of Texas, Austin, USA; John Innes Center, Norwich, United Kingdom
John Innes Center, Norwich, United Kingdom
Research Interest
Rational Engineering for Terminal Heat Stress in Wheat: Wheatomics
- Wheat is a highly versatile and major cereal crop in terms of harvested area and adaptation to diverse regions. Heat stress during the last phases of wheat development or terminal heat stress from booting, heading, anthesis, and grain filling stages is considered as one of the major environmental constraints in wheat breeding today. With rising global temperature, most of the wheat cultivated regions throughout the world including India has been affected by terminal heat stress resulting in a reduction in grain number per spike, grain weight, and consequently a significant reduction in grain yield.
- Towards elucidating heat stress tolerance mechanisms in Indian bread wheat, my research is targeting various processes involved in plant stress tolerance and signaling utilizing diverse molecular biological tools.
Awards & Honors
- Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship of the United Kingdom
- BOYSCAST fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, the University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Jawaharlal Nehru Award (2000) for outstanding Ph.D. research in Plant Biotechnology conferred by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India.
- Indian Science Congress Association Young Scientist Award 1999-2000.
- N.Bharadwaj, S. Barthakur, A Biswas, et al (2019) Transcript expression profiling in two contrasting cultivars and molecular cloning of a KP-1 like a gene, a component of SCF ubiquitin-proteasome system from mungbean Vigna radiate L. Scientific Reports 9:8103
- P.Jaiswal and S . Barthakur (2019) Optimization of an in vitro regeneration protocol for hexaploid wheat using an immature embryo as explants. Ann Agric Res.40(4):1-7
- S.Khomdram and S.Barthakur (2016) Transient GUS assay based quick screening method of genes cloned in a binary vector in tandem for plant transformation Annals of Agric Res 37(3):265-274
- N. Gogoi, M Farooq, S Barthakur, B.Baroowa, N.Bharadwaj and S Ramanjulu (2018) Thermal stress impacts on reproductive development and grain yield in grain legumes. J of Plant Biology 61:265-291
- S.Khomdram and S.Barthakur (2015) In situ evaluation of high-temperature stress in wheat-validation of a portable heat trap chamber Ann Agric Res 36(2):123-131
- S.M.Sankar, C.T. Satyavathi, SPSingh, MP Singh, C.Bharadwaj and S.Barthakur (2014) Genetic diversity analysis for high-temperature stress tolerance in pearl millet. Ind J of Plant Physiology 19(4):324-329
- A.Cantero , S.Barthakur,T.JBushert, S.Chou, R.O. Morgan, MP Fernandez, GB Clark and SJ Roux (2006) Expression profiling of the Arabidopsis annexin gene family during germination, de-etiolation, and abiotic stress. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 44,13-24 Joint first authors
- S.Deka and S Barthakur (2010) Overview on the current status of biotechnological interventions on yellow stem borer Scirphaga incestuous resistance in rice. Biotechnological Advances 28:70-81
- S. Barthakur, V. Babu, V. and KC Bansal (2001). Overexpression of osmotion induces proline accumulation and confers tolerance to osmotic stress in transgenic tobacco J. Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 10, 31
- Barthakur, S., Mondal, T. K., Parveen, S. S., Guha, A., Sen, P., Barthakur, A. and Deka, P. C.(1998). Isolation of chloroplast DNA from tea Camellia sinensis. Indian J. Exp Biology 36,1165
