Biotechnology

Biography

Veena Agrawal, Progessor in Department of Botany, University of Delhi, India. She completed her Ph.D. from Kurukshetra University, 2982. She has Teaching Experience of 30 years at P.G. level. Apart from of her research career she has assigned with various administrative issue including: Nominated Member of various administrative committees constituted by the University Grants Commission,New Delhi w.e.f. May, 2009 to till date, Nominated Member of Expert panel of selection committee by the Department of Higher Education Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, New Delhifor selection of the candidates for foreign scholarships w.e.f. 2008 to till date, Member of Expert panel of U.G.C., U.P.S.C (New Delhi), Central/State Universities, Council of Forest Research, Dehradun, Member Committee of Courses and Studies in Botany, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur (Rajasthan) and many more.She has guided 19 Ph.D and 17 M.Phil candiddates with more than 80 publications.

Research Interest

Plant tissue culture and biotechnology (Micropropagation and genetic transformation), evaluation, isolation and metabolic engineering of naturally occurring anticancerous, larvicidal bioactive compounds from medicinal plants, development of sex-linked molecular markers for dioecious crops, molecular basis of metal stress- induced phytotoxicity and its amelioration.