Sk Sopory
Plant Physiology
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Sudhir Kumar Sopory earned his BSc (Hons) and MSc from Jammu and Kashmir University, and PhD from Delhi University under the supervision of Professor SC Maheshwari. He joined Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi in 1973. He was at Max-Planck- Institute at Cologne (1976-78), where he produced potato monohaploids; University of Texas, USA (1981-82), where he found the role of calcium and calmodulin; Department of Agriculture, Maryland, USA (1986-88), where he found the mechanism of D1 protein turnover; and University of Munich with Professor R Herrmann (1991-92), where he did promoter analysis of light regulated genes encoding proteins involved in photosynthesis.
Research Interest
Molecular Plant Physiology
