The Division of Plant Physiology at IARI was established on 14th November, 1966.

Research and services offered by this department:

Research Thrust

Global climate change and abiotic stress tolerance
Biochemical and molecular studies on abiotic stress in cereals
Physiological and molecular basis of abiotic stress tolerance in crops
Physiological adaptations in crop plants under rising temperature
Nutrient use efficiency
Assimilate partitioning and nutrient use efficiency in cereals
Post-harvest physiology
Post-harvest physiology of perishable crops


Services

Open top chamber (OTC) and free air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) setup for CO2 enrichment studies
Portable Infra Red Gas Analyzer for measurement of photosynthesis and fluorescence
High performance liquid chromatography
Gas chromatography
Electromagnetic field generator for seed treatment
Atomic absorption spectrometer

Some research papers published by IARI Plant Physiology:


Anand, A., Nagarajan, S., Kishore, N. and Verma, A.P.S. (2010). Impact of high temperature at pod development stage on yield and quality of Brassica juncea cultivars. Indian J. Agric . Sci., 80(12): 1043-1047.

Chinnusamy, V., Zhu, J.K., Sunkar, R. (2010). Gene regulation during cold stress acclimation in plants. Plant Stress Tolerance: Methods and Protocols. Methods Mol. Biol., 639: 39-55.

Choudhary, D., Agarwal, G., Singh, V.P. and Arora, A. (2010). in vitro micropropagation of Gladiolus grandiflora (var. Snow Princess) flower from cormel explant. Indian J. Plant Physiol., 15 (1): 90-93.

Dalal, M., Chinnusamy, V., Bansal, K.C. (2010). Isolation and functional characterization of Lycopene b-cyclase (CYC-B) promoter from Solanum habrochaites. BMC Plant Biol., 10: 61.

Jain, V., Khetarpal S., Smitha, A. and Saikia S. P. (2010). Enhanced levels of soil nitrogen and endogenous phytohormones in maize (Zea mays L.) inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense. Indian J. Plant Physiol., 15(2): 198-202.

Joshi, A., Shukla, A. and Kumar, P. (2010). in vitro selection of low phosphate tolerant hill maize (Zea mays L.) lines. Indian J. Plant Physiol., 15 (2): 159-163.

Address:

Plant physiology, IARI, Delhi
Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi, Delhi 110012
Phone:011 2584 2815

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