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Name : Dr. (Mrs.) Rekha Kansal

Ph.D. : Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra

Designation : Senior Scientist

 

Research Interests:

Working on isolation of plant genes and promoters for developing transgenic plants resistant to insect pests. Our main interest is to isolate novel genes that encode metabolic inhibitor proteins such as inhibitors of proteases, alpha amylases and lectins from indigenous legumes and cereals.

Selected Publications:

  1. Sharma, M., Sahni, R., Kansal, R. and Koundal, K. R.. (2004). Transformation of oil seed mustard Brassica juncea (L) cv Pusa Jai Kissan with snow drop lectin gene. Ind. J. Biotechnology. 3: 97-102

  2. Koundal, K. R., Dash, P. K. and Kansal, R. (2003). Plant defense proteins; Mechanism and potential of pest control through genetic manipulation. J. Plant Biology, 30 (2): 211-227.

  3. Qureshi, I. A., Dash, P. K., Kansal, R., Srivastava, P.S. and Koundal, K. R. (2003). Isolation and characterization of a lectin from seed of Cicer arietinum. Indian Journal of Plant Physiology. 8(2) : 625-629.

  4. Datta, S., Kansal, R. and Koundal K. R. (2000). Construction and screening of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) cDNA library for lectin genes. J. Plant Biochem. & Biotech. 6: 67-71.

  5. Koundal, K. R., Mandaokar, A. D. and Kansal, R. (2000). Isolation, cloning and characterization of storage protein genes of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) In Proceedings of the National Symposium on Biochemistry- Environment and Agriculture.

  6. Saha, Sanghamitra.; Kansal, R. and Koundal, K. R. (1996). Use of polymerase chain reaction in analyzing recombinant cDNA clones encoding storage proteins of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Ind. J.Expt. Biol.34:1019-1025.

  7. Kansal, R.; Ramkumar, T. P. and Koundal, K. R. (1995). Construction of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cDNA library in lambda gt11. ibid. pp 1727-1732.

  8. Khitha, S., Kansal, R. and Koundal, K. R. (1995). Isolation and characterization of genomic DNA of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 22(1): 1-5.

  9. Mandaokar, A. D., Koundal, K. R., Kansal, R. and Bansal, H.C.(1993). Characterization of vicilin seed storage protein of chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) J. Plant Biochem. and Biotech. 2:35-38.

  10. Kansal, R., Ramkumar, T. P. and Koundal, K. R. (1992). Construction and screening of chickpea cDNA library with heterologous legumin cDNA probe. J. Plant Biochem. and Biotech. 1:69-71.

Email: rekhakansal@yahoo.com

 
 
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