Prabir Kumar Saha Professor, Botany PhD: University of Calcutta (1977) Research interest Seed Biology & Biotechnology In vitro propagation of medicinally important plants Genotyping of cultivated jute and their wild relatives. Name of group members Dr.  Gaurab Gangopadhayay Dr.  Romit Poddar Ms. Suranajna Roy Mr. Avrajit Chakraborty Ms. Jayasri Bhar

Important publications

1.            P. K. Saha, K. Hatakeda, T. Kato, S. Yamanaka and N. Takahashi, 1981. A convenient method for analysis of momilactone : Japanese Jour. Crop Sci. 50(3) : 382-387

2.            S. Mukherjee, T. Ganguly, A. K. Shaw, S. N. Ganguly and P. K. Saha, 1986. Amarinin : A new growth inhibitor from Luffa amara : Pl. & Cell Physiol. 27(5) : 935-938

3.            P. K. Saha and N. Takahashi, 1986. Chiling effect on seed longevity and secondary dormancy in Shorea robusta Gaertn. f. : Environ. Control in Biol. 24(1) : 27-32

4.            A. Bhattacharya and P. K. Saha, 1992. SEM studies on morphological diversities in the seeds of Cassia tora Linn. : Seed Sci. & Technol. 20 : 85-91

5.            A. Bhattacharya and P. K. Saha, 1997. Germination behaviour of two morphologically different types of seed of Cassia tora at different temperatures : Weed Res. 37(2) : 87-92

6.            A. Bhattacharya,  B.  Das and  P. K. Saha,  1999.   Qualitative  and   quantitative estimation of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) in the seeds of Shorea robusta Gaertn. f. : J. of Tropical Forest Research; 11(3) : 528 – 536

7.            B. Das and P. K. Saha, 1999. Effect of dormancy breaking treatments on testa   ultrastructures and water uptake patterns of Albizia procera seed : Seed Sci. & Technol. 27(2) : 615 – 625

8.            A. Roy and P. K. Saha, 2004. Study of andrgenesis using morphometrics and regenaration in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea Czern. and Coss.). Plant Cell Biotechnology and Molecular Biology. 5 : 59-64.

9.            B. Das and P. K. Saha, 2006. Ultrastructural dimorphism of micropyle determines differential germinability of Sesbania cannabina seeds : Seed Sci. & Technol. 34 : 384-395.

10.        A. Roy and P. K. Saha, 2006. Isolation of low erucic acid containing genotype of Indian mustard (Brassica juncea Czern. and Coss.) through F₁ hybrid anther culture: Afr. J. Biotechnology. 5 : 2092 – 2096

Contact

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