Name of Scheme

 Funding Agency     

 PI

 Year

1.         Studies on Somatic Cell Hybridization   and Androgenesis in Crop Plants. 

State Government, Haryana

1975 – Cont.

2.      Rapid Vegetative Multiplication of Female Datepalm Through Tissue Culture.

Indian Council of Agric. Res. New Delhi

1982-1985

3.         Use of Tissue Culture Techniques in the Improvement of Rice Crop.       

Indian Council of Agric. Res. New Delhi

1986-1989

4.         Selection And Development of Stress and Disease Tolerant Genotypes in  Major Crops of Haryana.

NARP/State Govt.  

1982-Cont.

5.                 Assessment of Somaclonal Variation  in Regenerated Plants of Female Datepalm (Phoenix dactylifera). 

Indian Council of Agric. Res. New Delhi

JB CHOWDHURY

1989-1993

6.         In vitro selection for Blight and Wilt Resistance in Chickpea (Cicer      arietinum).              

Department of Biotechnology GoI

VK CHOWDHURY

JB CHOWDHURY

1989-1993

7.         Genetic Improvement of Rice Through Biotechnological Techniques.  Sub proposal I : Wide Hybridization.    

The Rockefeller Foundation.     (USA)    

JB CHOWDHURY

VK CHOWDHURY

RK JAIN

NR YADAV

1992-1995

8.         Development of Transgenic Plants of Chickpea through Biotechnological Techniques.                

Department of Biotechnology GoI

VK CHOWDHURY

RK JAIN

1995-1998

9.         Genetic improvement of basmati rice through the use of biotechnological techniques   

The Rockefeller Foundation.     (USA)    

JB CHOWDHURY

VK CHOWDHURY

RK JAIN

NR YADAV

1995-1998

10.      Development of freeze tolerant plants of Brassica employing in vitro approaches           

Indian Council of Agric. Res. New Delhi

RK DHAWAN

VK CHOWDHURY

1996-1999

11.             Genetic improvement of Basmati rice through Biotechnological techniques.                                                                   

The Rockefeller Foundation.     (USA)

RK JAIN

VK CHOWDHURY

1998-2000

12.      Genetic improvement of Basmati rice through biotechnological techniques   

The Rockefeller Foundation.     (USA)    

RK JAIN

VK CHOWDHURY

2000-2003

13.                Development of insect resistant geno-types in chickpea using biotechnological techniques

NATP (ICAR) New Delhi

VK CHOWDHURY

RK JAIN

2000-2003

14.      DNA finger printing of Basmati rice

United Riceland Kurukshetra

RK JAIN

VK CHOWDHURY

2000-2002

15.   Mapping and molecular tagging of genes for diseases resistance in sorghum

The Rockefeller Foundation.     (USA)

KS BOORA

2000-2004

16.   Development of Transgenic salt Tolerant Chickpea Plants

Department of Biotechnology GoI

VK CHOWDHURY

RK JAIN

2002-2005

17.             Identification of genes for starch synthesis with high  temperature tolerance in wheat

NATP (ICAR) New Delhi

VK SIKKA

VK CHOWDHURY

2001-2004

18.  Engineering Indian Mustard (Brassica   juncea) for Alternaria blight (Alternaria brassicae) resistance

NATP (ICAR) New Delhi

RC YADAV

NR YADAV

2002- 2005

19.   Molecular mapping of genes/QTLs for salinity tolerance using populations derived from Basmati x indica rice crosses

NATP (ICAR) New Delhi

RK JAIN

VK CHOWDHURY

2002- 2005

20.  Direct fermentation of starch to

       ethanol by genetically engineered   saccharomyces cerevisiae

Department of Biotechnology GoI

K. Chaudhary,

K.S. BOORA

2003- 2005

21.   Genetic improvement of celluloLytic fungi for cellulase production

Department of Biotechnology GoI

K. Chaudhary,

K.S. BOORA

2003- 2005

22.  CROP IMPROVEMENT FOR BETTER NUTRITION USING AMA1 GENE FROM  Amaranthus hypochondriacus            

Department of Biotechnology GoI

RK JAIN

2003- 2005

23.  Identification of gender specific DNA markers in Datepalm (Phoenix  dactylifera L).

CSIR, New Delhi

Pushpa Kharb

2004-2007

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