Adinpunya Mitra
Professor
Agricultural and Food Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur
India
Biography
Prof Mitra teaches Agricultural Biotechnology at Agricultural & Food Engineering Department. Originally a botanist by training with an MSc degree of the University of Burdwan, he also successively completed his MTech degree in Biotechnology from IIT Kharagpur. After doing research on plant tissue culture for over two years as a CSIR-research fellow (NET) at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, he Mitra moved to United Kingdom on a commonwealth scholarship in 1996 to do his doctoral research with Dr N J Walton on metabolic engineering of plant phenolics at the BBSRC-Institute of Food Research in Norwich, a school of his own choice. Upon his return to India with a PhD degree of the University of East Anglia, he joined Visva-Bharati (a central university), Santiniketan and served there for one year as a Lecturer in Biotechnology. In November 2000, He moved to IIT Kharagpur as an Assistant Professor in Applied Botany
Research Interest
Biochemistry of floral scent volatiles Natural products from root cultures Secondary metabolism - molecular biology Physiology of plant volatilome Histochemistry of plant metabolites
Publications
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A mechanistic insight into hydrogen peroxide-mediated elicitation of bioactive xanthones in Hoppea fastigiata shoot cultures by U R Moon and A Mitra* Planta 244 259-274 (2016)
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Changes in targeted metabolites, enzyme activities and transcripts at different developmental stages of tea leaves: a study for understanding the biochemical basis of tea shoot plucking by T Samanta, J N R Kotamreddy, B C Ghosh and A Mitra* Acta Physiologiae Plantarum 39 - (2017)
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Enzymatic production and emission of floral scent volatiles in Jasminum sambac by P Bera, C Mukherjee and A Mitra* Plant Science 256 25-38 (2017)
