Dipankar Chakraborti

Biography

Ph.D., Jadavpur University (Life Sciences- 2008)

Research Interest

Development of biotic stress tolerance in legumes and other crops: Major breakthrough in productivity of different crops has still remained elusive in spite of appreciable technological advances. Strategies need to be developed for solving the problem of management of pod borers/ fruit borers and sucking pests to meet the future demands for crops. Our future plan is to use different insecticidal protein including Bacillus thuringiensis Cry proteins, lectins etc to develop insect resistant plants using transgenic strategies. Development of transformation systems for important crop plants is another area of research by our group. Presently we are involved in research in this direction under ICAR (NASF) funded project in collaboration with different institutes like Bose Institute Kolkata, IIT Kharagpur, IIPR Kanpur, CAU Manipur and NRCPB New Delhi. Stress genomics of crop plants: Fungal and bacterial pathogens cause the most severe diseases of crops throughout the world. Lack of information on potential resistant genes limits breeding and gene transfer technologies. A thorough understanding of plant-pathogen interaction at cellular and molecular level is essential for isolation of potential genes, involved in counteracting disease progression. Presently we have initiated research is this direction and designed experiments to trigger the disease responsive pathways to monitor expressions of novel transcripts involve in disease resistance. Our future goal is to find out role of these transcripts in plant disease resistance.