Dr.Awadhesh Kumar
Name: Dr.Awadhesh Kumar
Qualification: Ph.D.
Designation : Assistant Professor-cum-Scientist
Department : Department of Biochemistry and Crop Physiology
institute name : Bihar Agricultural University
College address : Department of Biochemistry and CropPhysiology
Bihar Agricultural College, B.A.U., Sabour
Bhagalpur-813210, Bihar, India
award title: Best Teacher Award
Experience: 7 years
About Dr. Awadhesh Kumar
Dr. Awadhesh Kumar Pal obtained his Doctorate from CSIR-Institute of Himalayan
Bioresource Technology, Palampur (H.P.), India, under the guidance of Late, Dr. P. S.
Ahuja. Where he performed exhaustive study on expression of antioxidant genes by
raising single and double gene transgenic in potato for abiotic (drought, cold and
salinity) and biotic resistance. Dr. Pal is engaged in teaching and research as Assistant Professor –cum- Jr. Scientist, in the Department of Plant Physiology and
Biochemistry, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bihar since 2012. Dr. Pal has
successfully completed national projects from DBT, DST, DAE (BARC) and other in
house projects (More than 15). He has presently taken up exhilarating molecular,
biochemical and physiological research for the improvement of lentil and wheat
against terminal heat and drought stresses. In wheat he is involved in developing
doubled haploid lines for spot blotch resistance. He has also taken up modification
and large scale of production of banana, bamboo, pineapple, strawberry etc. under in
vitro condition. At B.A.U., Sabour headed a commercial tissue culture laboratory
which produces more than five lakh plants annually. He has extended consultancy
services to several government and private agencies for opening of tissue culture
laboratories for commercial production. He prepared DPR for a separate department
of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, which is functioning successfully since 2016,
apart from the DPRs of a College of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, a
Phytotron facility in Bihar and Advance centre of Biotechnology. He has published
several research articles in peer reviewed journals like DNA research, Transgenic
Research, Functional and Integrative Genomics, Plant molecular Biology Reporters,
Molecular Biotechnology, Biologia Plantarum etc. apart from two books and many book chapters in books by reputed publishers. He has reviewed several research
articles of PlosOne, PCTOC, Photosynthetica, 3 Biotech, Environmental and
Experimental Botany, Molecular Biology Reports, Indian Journal of Plant Physiology
etc. He has been an editorial board member of Current Journal of Applied Science and
Technology, 3 Biotech and Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology. He has been
advisory members of more than twenty students in their MSc and PhD research. Dr.
Pal has received several national and international awards and is member of reputed
societies including Indian society of Plant Physiology, New Delhi; Society for
Agricultural Innovation and Development, Ranchi; Society for Scientific
Development in Agriculture and Technology, Meerut etc. He has delivered several
invited/lead lectures at national and international conferences.