Veena Agrawal
University of Delhi, India
Biography
Veena Agrawal is teaching and conducting research in the Department of Botany, University of Delhi in the area of Plant Biotechnology (Micropropagation, genetic transformation and evaluation of biomolecules in the medicinal plants) since 1990. She has developed more than 25 micropropagation protocols of economically important plant taxa. She has published over 75 research papers in international/national peer reviewed journals and immensely contributed (over 100 abstracts) her research in many international conferences, delivered invited lectures and chaired the technical sessions. She has visited many countries namely Israel, Nepal, Australia in connection with research. She is awarded with several fellowships: Indian Society of Plant Physiology (FISPP) and International Society of Plant Morphologists (FISPM) and is an elected Member of PTCA (I). For the first time, she developed sex-linked markers in Jojoba, an oil yielding dioecious crop. She has filed five Indian patents. She has been on the Editorial Board and Reviewer of various prestigious international projects and journals.