Dr. Mukesh Kumar Kanwar
Assistant professor
Botany and Environment Science
Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University
India
Biography
He earned Ph.D from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences in the year 2013. EMPLOYMENT RECORD: • Presently working as Assistant professor from September, 2012 onwards in the Department of Botany and Environmental Science, Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India. 6. PRESENT DUTIES: • Teaching Fundaments of Environmental Science to undergraduate students; Ecology, Environmental Biotechnology, Research Methodology, Biostatics, Environmental Chemistry, Plant Physiology etc to postgraduate students. • Guiding M.Tech. & PhD students for their research work. 7. OFFICIAL DUTIES: • In-Charges of Department of Botany and Environmental Science. • In-Charges of Department of Agriculture Science (Additional Charge). • Member of Academic council, Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh, Punjab (July, 2013 onwards). • Member of BOS for Botany and Environmental Science (July, 2013 onwards). • Member BOS for Agriculture Science (July, 2015 onwards). 8. COMMUNITY SERVICE: • NSS Unit Coordinator at Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh, Punjab (2014 onwards). • Member of Eco-Club for the preservation and betterment of Environment at Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh, Punjab (2014 onwards). Dr. Mukesh Kumar Kanwar • Installed Vermi-compost Unit for the facilitation of organic farming at Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh, Punjab.
Research Interest
AREA OF RESEARCH: • Crop stress physiology. • Phytoremediation and heavy metal pollution monitoring. • Natural plant products. • Cyto-toxic studies.
Publications
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Kanwar MK, Poonam, Bhardwaj R(2015) Arsenic induced modulation of antioxidative defense system and brassinosteroids in Brassica juncea L. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 115:119-25.
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Kanwar MK, Pal P, Bhardwaj SR (2015) Involvement of Asada-Halliwell pathway during phytoremediation of Chromium (VI) in Brassica juncea L plants. Int J Phytoremediation 17:1237-43.