1st Edition
Submerged Rice Morphological, Molecular and Genetic Analyses
Introduction. History of Floods. Diversity of Submergence. Adaptive Morphology. Physiological Aspects. Molecular and Genetic Aspects. Yield and Yield-Gap. Index.
Biography
Pranab Basuchaudhuri has an MSc in Agriculture (1972) from Calcutta University, India with a first class and was awarded a gold and a silver medal. He obtained his PhD degree from the same university in 1977. He joined the faculty of Calcutta University in 1975 as a plant physiologist and worked there until 1984. During this period one of his research subjects was waterlogged and submerged rice. In 1980 he was awarded the Premchand Roychand Scholarship. He later became a Senior Scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). He has five books to his credit and has published 65 papers in reputable journals. He has over 40 years of teaching and research experience.
