Nitish Ranjan Prakash

Working on the improvement of rice grown in saline coastal regions of India and particularly Sundarbans - Morphological and Molecular characterization of landraces - Genetics of salinity tolerance in rice - Varietal development for salinity & submergence tolerance - Allele mining for salinity tolerance in rice - Marker assisted selection In future, I will work on arsenic toxicity tolerance in rice and genomic selection based breeding strategies.