AMARENDRA NARAYAN MISRA
Founder Professor & Head
Formerly Professor, Plant Mol. Biol. & Biotechnol.,
Univ. of Pune
M.Sc. -1977; Ph.D. - 1984 Berhampur University
Honours:
Prof. Umakant Sinha Memorial Award (Biochemistry, Biophysics &
Molecular Biology), Indian Science Congress Assocaition 1996.
INSA Visiting Fellow at BARC;
DST-SERC Visiting Fellow at Deptt. Of Electronics & Deptt.
of Physics, Univ. of Pune.
CEC Visiting fellow, Imperial College, London and AFRC-IGER,
Aberystwyth, Wales; BOYSCAST visiting fellow, UCW, UK; Visiting
scientist, University of Geneva, Switzerland; JSPS Visiting Fellow,
University of Osaka, Japan;
INSA Overseas Visiting Fellow, University of Krakow, Poland;
Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Biotechnology and
molecular biology of adaptation of tropical plants.
Biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology of photosynthesis.
University Post-Graduate Teaching Experience:
Twenty Three years
Publications: 88 (International
43, National 45)
Research supervision: Ph.D.
8, M.Phil. 9, M.Sc. 2
Referee:
International Journal: Luminescence - Willey Inter-Sci.,
J. Plant Physiol.- European Soc. Plant Physiol.,
Photochemistry & Photobiology: B. (Biol.) - Elsevier
Env. & Exp. Bot. - Elsevier
National Journal: Indian
J. Biochemistry & Biophysics - CSIR
Plant Biology - Bangalore
Physics Education - Pune
Research summary:
· Characterization of mutants and clones for stress adaptations.
· Cellular and molecular changes (including signal transduction)
in tissue cultures under under stress conditions. Identification
of novel stress shock proteins.
· Chacterisation, localization and isolation of stress
shock proteins.
· Molecular mechanism of adaptation of tropical crop plants
to heat, high light and salinity to decipher the mechanism of
modulation of
o primary photochemical reactions,
o xanthophylls cycle pigments on stress sensing.
o Secondary metabolites in plastids.
· Development of chloroplast with particular emphasis on
thylakoid membranes along the axis of wheat leaf lamina is characterized
and is used by our group as a model system. These studies include
the light induced transformation of etioplasts to chloroplasts,
nuclear and plastid gene expression, pigment biosynthesis, protein
import to chloroplasts, development of pigment-protein complexes,
photosystem activities, protein kinases, and photo-signals like
fluorescence and thermoluminescence etc.
· Identification of plastid proteases responsible for the
turn-over of thylakoid membrane proteins.
Organisational activities:
· Organised 3 day workshop on Fast Chl fluorescence. Utkal
University, Bhubaneswar, India 23-25 October 2003.
· Associate-Coordinator P.G. Course in Environmental Biology.
Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India July 2000- April 2001.
· Co-ordinator, UGC sponsored Refresher Course in Environmental
Sciences, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore 21 Sept. - 11 Oct.
2004.
Elected life member:
Indian Science Congress Association, The National Academy of Sciences
(India), International Society for Tropical Crops Research and
Development, Indian Society for Plant Physiology, Society of Biosciences,
Orissa Botanical Society, Indian Photobiology Society, Society
for Green Vegetation Research (India Chapter), Indian Society
for Agricultural Biochemists, Orissa Environmental Society, Indian
Society for Tree Scientists, Plant Physiology Forum, Society for
Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Society for Toxicology, Forum
for Plant Physiologists, Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology.
Member: The National Academy of Sciences (India) -
MNASc
Fellow International Society
for Tropical Crops Research and Development - FISTCRAD, Indian
Society for Agricultural Biochemists - FISAB, Academy of Environmental
Biology - FAEB, Indian Botanical Society - FBS.
Selected papers
1. Das, N., Misra, M. and Misra, A.N. (1990) Sodium chloride salt
stress induced metabolic changes in pearl millet callus: Free
solutes. J. Plant Physiol. 137, 244-246.
2. Misra, A.N., Hall, S. and Barber, J. (1991) The isolated DI/D2/Cyt
b559 complex of photosystem two reaction centre possesses a serine
type endopeptidase activity. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1059, 239-242.
3. Misra, A.N., Ramaswamy, N.K. and Desai, T.S. (1997) Thermoluminescence
studies on photoinhibition of pothos leaf siscs at chilling, room
and high temperature. J. Photochem. Photobiol. B: (Biol.) 38,
164-168.
4. Misra, A.N., Sahu, S.M., Misra, M., Ramaswamy, N.K. and Desai,
T.S. (1999) Sodium chloride salt stress induced changes in thylakoid
pigment-protein complexes, PS II activity and TL glow peaks of
chloroplasts from mungbean (Vigna radiata L.) and Indian mustard
(Brassica juncea Coss.) seedlings. Z. Naturforsch. Part: C 54,
640-644.
5. Misra, A.N. and Biswal, A.K. (2000) Thylakoid membrane protein
kinase activity as a signal transduction pathway in chloroplasts
(Review). Photosynthetica, 38, 323-332.
6. Misra, A.N., Dilnawaz, F., Misra, M. and Biswal, A.K. (2001)
Thermoluminescence in chloroplasts as an indicator of alterations
in photosystem II reaction center by biotic and abiotic stress
(Review). Photosynthetica 39, 1-9.
7. Misra, A.N., Srivastava, A. and Strasser, R.J. (2001) Utilisation
of fast Chlorophyll a fluorescence technique in assessing the
salt/ion sensitivity of mung bean and brassica seedlings. J. Plant
Physiol. 158, 1173-1181.
8. Biswal, A.K., Dilnawaz, F., David, K.A.V., Ramaswamy, N.K.
and Misra, A.N.(2001) Increase in the intensity of thermoluminescence
Q-band during leaf ageing is due to a block in the electron transfer
from QA to QB. Luminescence 16, 309-313.
9. Dilnawaz, F., Mahapatra, P., Misra, M., Ramaswamy, N.K. and
Misra, A.N. (2001) The distinctive pattern of phtosystem 2 activity,
photosynthetic pigment accumulation and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate
carboxylase/oxygenase content of chloroplasts along the axis of
primary wheat leaf lamina. Photosynthetica 39, 557-563.
10. Biswal, A.K., Dilnawaz, F., Ramaswamy, N.K., David, K.A.V.
and Misra, A.N. (2002) Thermoluminescence characteristics of sodium
chloride salt stressed Indian mustard seedlings. Luminescence
17, 135-140.
