| Full Name: | Dr. P.A. Shirke |
| Designation: | Chief Scientist |
| Address: | CSIR- National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow 226001 |
| Email Address: | pashirke@nbri.res.in |
| Contact Number: | 2297928 |
1. Objectives & Goals
Our group is interested in unrevealing as to of how plants function to various environmental cues and climate change using the system biology approach. We are using approaches such as gas exchange, stomatal behaviour, anatomical aspects, water relations parameters, carbon discriminations, Chlorophyll fluorescence, and biochemical analyses and molecular biology approach.
2. Competencies :
- Plant Physiology with special reference to photosynthesis and water relations in plants
3. Facilities:
- Portable Photosynthesis Measurement System
- Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measuring System
- Instruments to measure osmotic potential and water conductance in plant tissues
- Light Microscopy Facility
- Facility for biochemical studies
- Growth Chambers
4. Significant achievements:
- More than 130 parameters based on following clusters Morphology & Anatomy, Photosynthesis, Pigments, Fluorescence, Water relations, Optical properties, Stable Isotopes have been standardized for determination of plant growth and development
- Development of early parameters for screening cotton and guar accessions for drought tolerance
- Drought diagnostic technology for high throughput screening of germplasms for drought tolerance
Selected Recent Publications
- Vaishali Umrao, Sushma Yadav, Pradeep Semwal, Sankalp Misra, Shashank Kumar Mishra, Puneet Singh Chauhan, Pramod Arvind Shirke. Endophytic bacilli from Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub. induces plant growth and drought tolerance. Int Microbiol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10123-024-00499-6
- Narayan, S., Sharma, R.K., Kumar, V., Sanyal, I., and Shirke, P.A. (2023). Alterations in plant anatomy and higher lignin synthesis provides drought tolerance in cluster bean [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.]. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 201, p.107905.
- Raghvendra Dubey, Bhoopendra K. Pandey, Samir V. Sawant, Pramod Arvind Shirke* (2023). Drought stress inhibits stomatal development to improve water use efficiency in cotton. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum 45:30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-022-03511-6
- Jamal, R., Narayan, S., Dubey, R., Kannaujia, R., Rai, R., Behera, S.K., Behera, S.K., Shirke, P.A., Pandey, V., and Barik, S.K. (2023). Response of tropical trees to elevated Ozone: a Free Air Ozone Enrichment study. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 195(1), pp.1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10713-5
- Komal Pandey, Ravi Shankar Kumar, Priti Prasad, Sushma, Veena Pande, Prabodh Kumar Trivedi, Pramod Arvind Shirke* (2022). Synchronised interaction of carbon and nitrogen provides drought tolerance in Cyamopsis tetragonoloba. Environmental and Experimental Botany. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2022.104899
- Dubey, R., Dudhagi, S.S., Narayan, S., Kumar, A., Niranjan, A., Shirke, P.A.* (2022). Stomatal behaviour and endogenous phytohormones promote intrinsic water use efficiency differently in cotton under drought. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, 60, 112-120.
- Khan, F., Naaz, S., Singh, N., Shukla, P.K., Tripathi, R., Yadav, H.K., and Shirke, P.A.*, 2022. Molecular, physiological, and agronomic assessment of genetic diversity in rice varieties in relation to drought treatment. Current Plant Biology, 29, p.100232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpb.2021.100232
- Komal Pandey, Ravi Shankar Kumar, Priti Prasad, Veena Pande, Prabodh Kumar Trivedi, Pramod Arvind Shirke* (2022). Coordinated regulation of photosynthesis and sugar metabolism in guar increases tolerance to drought. Environmental and Experimental Botany. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2021.104701
- Upreti, P., Narayan, S., Khan, F., Tewari, L.M., and Shirke, P.A.* (2021). Drought-induced responses on physiological performance in cluster bean [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.]. Plant Physiology Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40502-021-00574-4
- Upreti, P., Narayan, S., Khan, F., Tewari, L.M., and Shirke, P.A.* (2021). Physiological attributes associated with leaf spectral alterations in guar [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.] under drought. 3 Biotech 11(3): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-021-02674-2
- Shirke, P.A.*, Pathre, U.V., Sane, P.V. (2018). Adaptation strategies of two leaf cohorts of Prosopis juliflora produced in spring and monsoon. Photosynthetica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11099-018-0794-8
Research Fellows/Project Assistants:
Students awarded with their Ph.D. degree under my supervision
- Dr. Ruchi Singh
- Dr. Furqan Khan
- Dr. Raghvendra Dubey
- Dr. Sonali Mehrotra
- Dr. Priyanka Upreti
- Dr. Komal Tiwari
- Dr. Shiv Narayan
Students pursuing their Ph.D. under my supervision:
- Ms. Shushma Yadav SRF
- Mr. Rakesh Kumar SRF
- Ms. Vaishali SRF
