Title : Insight into the changes in conserved miRNA and the targets during the events leading to successful generation of scutellum derived calli in Oryza sativa

Abstract:

The conserved miRNA in plants are unique post transcriptional regulators which play a pivotal role in the growth and development. The generation of calli and its regeneration events are rather difficult to predict in lieu of different responses seen for a given media in different genotype. The justification, however has been probed using different media constituents however, no work has been done wherein the addressal  of the problems associated with media constituent.In this regard we have developed various strategies wherein we look into the aspects of tissue culture at different stages and probe it. The work wherein we have deviced strategies for few of the microRNA and have been successful in probing and quantitating the responses.

Biography:

Lata Israni Shukla has  studied Chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and graduated as MS in 1990. She then joined the research group of Prof. P C Kesavan at the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (JNU). She received her PhD degree in 1997 at the same institution. After serving as research associate and senior research associate she joined  Pondicherry University, Puducherry at the department of Biotechnology.  She has published more than 35research articles in SCI(E) journals