Research Interests :

My research area is molecular biology and genetic engineering for abiotic stress tolerance in plants. We are working on isolation and functional characterization of genes and promoters involved in various abiotic stress responses and their functional characterization for further manipulation in economically important crop plants.

Selected Publications :

1. Barthakur, S., Babu, V. and Bansal, K. C. (2002) Bioengineering for reducing post-harvest losses in vegetable crops (Review) In: Emerging scenario in vegetables research and development Ed G Kallo and Kirti Singh, Research Periodicals and Book Publishing House, Texas, USA.

2. Barthakur, S. Babu, V. and Bansal, K. C.(2001). Over expression of osmotin induces proline accumulation and confers tolerance to osmotic stress in transgenic tobacco J. Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 10, 31.

3. Bansal, K C., Barthakur, S. and Roy, S. K. (2000). Post harvest biotechnology for fruits and vegetables (Review) In: Biotechnology and its application in Indian horticulture editor: Ghosh, S. P Narosa Publications, New Delhi.

4. Barthakur, S., Mondal, T. K., Parveen, S. S., Guha, A., Sen, P., Barthakur, A. and Deka, P. C.(1998). Isolation of chloroplast DNA from tea Camellia sinensis. Indian J. Exp Biology 36,1165.

5. Barthakur, S., Mondal, T. K., Barthakur, A. and Deka, P. C.(1998). Variation in peroxidase and esterase isoenzymes in tea leaves Two and a bud, 1.

6. Barthakur, S., Roy, M. K. and Ghosh, A C.(1996). Steroid transformation by Mycobacterium sp with altered response to antibiotics J. Basic Microbiology (Germany) 1996,42,36

7. Barthakur, S., Roy, M. K. and Ghosh, A C. Sterol side chain cleavage by fusants of Alcaligenes faecalis and Arthbacter oxydans. Folia Microbiology (Czech Republic) 1997,130.