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Dr. Anju Arora
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding

Dr. Anju Arora

Professor
  • DesignationProfessor
  • QualificationPh.D.
  • SpecialisationPulse Breeding and Plant Biotechnology
  • Emailanjuaroraagpgbpuatacin, aroraanjuduagmailcom
  • Contact No.+91-9456768397

Research Areas/ Areas of Interest

  • Pulse Breeding

    • Research Projects

  • Handled three ad-hoc projects and the current one is DBT funded network project on “Characterization of chickpea germplasm resource to accelerate genomics-assisted crop improvement”.

    • Selected Research Publications

    1. Anju Arora and H.S. Chawla. 2005. Organogenic plant regeneration via callus induction in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) - Role of genotypes, growth regulators and explants. Indian Journal of Plant Biotechnology 4: 251-256.
    2. Kirti Rani and Anju Arora. 2015. Phenotypic screening and molecular characterization of chickpea genotypes against four different races of Fusarium wilt. International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research 5(5), 445-454.
    3. Ranjana, Anju Arora, R.K. Panwar and S.K. Verma. 2019. Molecular tagging of botrytis grey mould disease in chickpea. Legume Research. Volume 42. Issue 5 710-714
    4. P. Bhareti, R.K. Panwar, A. Arora and S.K. Verma. 2019. Genetic diversity & transferability of chickpea - sequence tagged microsatellite sites (stms) primers to vigna & phaseolus species International Journal of Genetics. ISSN: 0975-2862 & E-ISSN: 0975-9158, Volume 11, Issue 5, 2019, pp.-587-593.

    UG/PG/PHD Student Guided

  • UG students advised – 15
  • PG students guided – 12

    • Recognitions

  • Young scientist award 2012 in Agricultural Sciences by Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology.
  • Krishi Vigyan Gaurav in 2017 for research article by Bhartiya Krishi Anusandhan Samiti and Krishi Anusandhan Sanchar Kendra (ARCC), Karnal.
  • Appreciation certificate at at Annual Group Meet of MULLaRP, 2017 for significant contributions in varietal development.

    • Contributions

  • Contributed in development of seventeen new improved varieties of pulses including six in chickpea viz. PKC 1, PG 3, PG 4, PKG 2, PG 5 and PG 6; one in lentil PL 9; four in fieldpea viz. PP 155, PP 243, PP 347 and PP 250; two in mungbean PM 8 and PM 9, three in urdbean viz. PU 7, PU 8, PU 9 and one in arhar i.e. PA 6.

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