Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture

Faculty Member, Department of Crop Sciences

Senior Scientist ( Plant Physiology)

Thesis Title: Physiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of chromium toxicity and tolerance in selected crops and tree species

About

Arun Kumar Shanker ( AK Shanker) was born in the City of Madras now Chennai in the Southern Indian State of Tamil Nadu and was educated in the Govt school known as Kendriya Vidhyalaya in Tambaram Air Force Base. He earned his under graduate and post graduate degree in Agriculture from the Agriculture College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore in 1987 and 1990 respectively. Later he joined the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi for his advanced degree in Plant physiology only to drop and take up full time researcher position with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Later he completed his PhD in Coimbatore in 2003. His main area of research has been on Cr–plant interactions and various other abiotic stresses in crops and plants. Presently he is embarking on in silico approaches to gene finding and data mining to identify candidate genes for multiple abiotic stress tolerance in the family Poacea.

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