A K Tyagi
Professor
Chemical Sciences
Homi Bhabha National Institute
India
Biography
Tyagi has done his Ph.D from Mumbai University and currently working as professor in Homi Bhabha National Institute. He has won many awards annd recognitions during his period. Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (2004), Homi Bhabha Science and Technology Award (2006), CRSI-Prof. CNR Rao National Prize for Chemical Sciences (2012), Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (2013), MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity and Materials Science Senior Award (2014)
Research Interest
Synthesis of advanced materials by soft-chemical and other non-conventional routes, Research on ionic conductors, dielectrics, multiferroics and magnetic materials, Nuclear materials for front-end and back-end applications, Nanomaterials for environmental and societal applications, Hybrid materials
Publications
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Purohit RD, Sharma BP, Pillai KT, Tyagi AK (2001) Ultrafine ceria powders via glycine-nitrate combustion. Materials Research Bulletin 36: 2711-21.
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Chen M, Presting G, Barbazuk WB, Goicoechea JL, Blackmon B, et al. (2002) An integrated physical and genetic map of the rice genome. The Plant Cell Online. 14: 537-45.
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Jain M, Nijhawan A, Arora R, Agarwal P, Ray S, et al. (2007) F-box proteins in rice. Genome-wide analysis, classification, temporal and spatial gene expression during panicle and seed development, and regulation by light and abiotic stress. Plant Physiology 143:1467-83.
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Mukhopadhyay A, Vij S, Tyagi AK (2004) Overexpression of a zinc-finger protein gene from rice confers tolerance to cold, dehydration, and salt stress in transgenic tobacco. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101: 6309-14.
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Jain M, Nijhawan A, Tyagi AK, Khurana JP (2006) Validation of housekeeping genes as internal control for studying gene expression in rice by quantitative real-time PCR. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 345: 646-51.
