Samir Ranjan Sikdar, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Designation: Professor & Vigilance Officer
 

 

 

Office Address:   Contact details:
Division of Plant Biology     

Phone: +91-33-2569-3220 (Main office)
Bose Institute, Centenary Building  

+91-33-2426-8269 (Residence)
P-1/12, C.I.T. Scheme VII M  

+91-3174-225011  (Falta office)
Kolkata 700 054, India   Fax:     +91-33-2355-3886
   

E-mail: samir@bic.boseinst.ernet.in
    Mobile: 9831042569
Coordinator    
Rural Biotechnology Programme    

Falta Experimental Farm, Bose Institute

    

Falta, P.O. + P.S. – Falta

    

District – South 24 Parganas

    

Ph.D.: University of Kalyani (Botany -1989)

 Research interest and current activities:

a)      Improvement of oil yielding crops like rapeseed-mustard, sesame and edible mushrooms through biotechnological, genomic and proteomic approaches.

b)      Upliftment of rural people living below poverty level through Biotechnology based societal/awareness/training programmes

 Guidance of Students/Post-Docs.:

a)      Ph.D. awarded                              : 4 (Four)

b)      Students presently undergoing Ph.D. work : 3 (Three)

 Extramural Projects:

Extramural projects handled as PI (including present 1 project): 5

Extramural projects handled as Co-PI (including present 3 projects): 4

 Membership of Learned Societies:

1. Life member of the Society for Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, New Delhi.

2. Life member of Mushroom Society of India, Solan (HP).

3. Life Member of Plant Physiology Forum, Kolkata

 Name of group members

            Research Scholars:

    1. Ms. Lekha Bandopadhyay                : SRF in CSIR project
    2. Mr. Pijush Mallick                             : Institute JRF
    3. Mr. Anirban Jyoti Debnath               : JRF in NAIP project (Joint

   supervision with Dr. D. Basu)

Non-Academic Staff:

     1. Mr. Birendra Kumar Bari (Group C)

 Past Students completed Ph.D.:

    1. Dr. Soma Paul
    2. Dr. Palash Mandal
    3. Dr. Uttara Chakraborty
    4. Dr. Sruti Dutta

 Patents: 1

 

  1. Maliga P, Sikdar S, Reddy SV. US 6,376,744, April 23, 2002, Plastid

      Transformation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Rutgers University also WO 97/32977.

 Publications: 15

 1.   Das D, Mondal S, Roy SK, Maiti D, Bhunia B, Maiti TK, Sikdar SR and Islam SS

      (2010) A (1→6)-β-glucan from a somatic hybrid of Pleurotus florida and Volvariella

      volvacea: isolation, characterization, and study of immunoenhancing properties.

      Carbohydr Res (DOI:10.1016/j.carres.2010. 02.028)

 

2.   Chakraborty U, Sikdar SR (2010) Intergeneric protoplast fusion between Calocybe

      indica (milky mushroom) and Pleurotus florida aids in the qualitative and

      quantitative improvement of sporophore of the milky mushroom. World J Microbiol

      Biotechnol 26:213-225 (DOI 10.1007/s11274-009-0162-8)

 

3.   Chakraborty U, Sikdar SR (2008) Production and characterization of somatic hybrids

      raised through protoplast fusion between edible mushroom strains Volvariella 

      volvacea and Pleurotus florida. World J Microbiol Biotechnol, 24:1481-1492 (DOI

      10.1007/s11274-007-9630-1)

 

4.   Paul S, Sikdar SR (2005) Regeneration of plant from root explant of two Indian

      cultivar of Brassica campestris L. through somatic embryogenesis. Curr Sci 89:

      1323-1326

 

5.   Chowdhury P, Das M, Sikdar SR, Pal A (2004) Influence of the physiological age

      and position of the nodal explants on micropropagation of field-grown

      Dendrocalamus strictus NEES. Plant Cell Biotechnology and Mollecular Biology 5:

      45-50.

 

6.   Mandal P, Sikdar SR (2003) Plant regeration from mesophyll protoplasts  of Rorippa

      indica (L.) Hiern, a wild crucifer. Curr Sci  85:1451-1454

 

7.   Paul S and Sikdar SR (1999) Expression of npt II marker and gus reporter genes and

      their inheritance in subsequent generations of transgenic Brassica developed through

      Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer. Curr. Sci. 76:1569-1573

 

8.   Sikdar SR, Serino G, Chaudhuri S and Maliga P (1998) Plastid transformation in

      Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Rep. 18:20-24

 

9.   Begum F, Paul S, Bag N, Sikdar SR and Sen SK (1995) Somatic hybrids between

      Brassica juncea (L.) Czern and Diplotaxis harra (forsk.) Boiss and the generation of

      backcross progenes. Theor Appl Genet. 91:1167-1172

 

10. Sikdar SR, Sengupta S, Das S and Sen SK (1990) Plant regeneration from mesophyll

      protoplasts of Diplotaxis muralis, a wild crucifer. Plant Cell Rep. 8:722-725

 

11. Sikdar SR, Chatterjee G, Das S and Sen SK (1990) "Erussica", the intergeneric fertile

      somatichybrid developed through protoplast fusion between Eruca sativa Lam. and

      Brassica juncea (L.). Theor Appl Genet. 79:561-567

 

12. Chatterjee G, Sikdar SR, Das S and Sen SK (1988) Intergeneric somatic hybrid

      production through protoplast fusion between Brassica juncea and Diplotaxis

      muralis. Theor Appl Genet 76:915-922

 

13. Sikdar SR, Chatterjee G, Das S and Sen SK (1987) Regeneration of plants from

      mesophyll protoplasts of the wild crucifer Eruca sativa Lam. Plant Cell Rep 6:486-

      489

 

14. Chatterjee G, Sikdar SR, Das S and Sen SK (1985) Regeneration of plantlets from

      mesophyll protoplasts of Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. Plant Cell Rep. 4:245-247

 

15. Sikdar SR and Biswas AK (1984) Comparative karyotype analysis in five cultivated

      varieties of Sesame, Sesamum indicum (L.). Environ & Ecol. 2:119-121