Paramjit Khurana

Paramjit Khurana (born 15 August 1956) is an Indian scientist in Plant Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Genomics who is presently Professor in the Department of Plant Molecular Biology in the University of Delhi, Delhi. She has received many awards and published more than 125 scientific papers.

Biography Paramjit Khurana graduated from University of Delhi with degrees in botany; Bachelor of Science degree (B.Sc.) in (1975), Master of Science degree (M.Sc.) in 1977), and Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in (1978). She obtained her doctoral degree, Ph.D. in botany in 1983 from University of Delhi.

Khurana's career achievements cover Wheat and Seribiotechnology, Comparative Genomics, in wheat biotechnology genetic transformation of Indian wheat for resistance against the cereal cyst nematode and for abiotic stress tolerance, development of mulberry transgenics capable of withstanding salinity and drought stress conditions, effective genetic engineering strategies leading to stress tolerance in crop plants and sustaining agriculture under changing climatic conditions, sequencing of chromosome 11 of rice, chromosome 5 of tomato, and chloroplast genome of mulberry. Prof. J.C. Bose Fellowship (2012–2017) by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India Some of her publications published in national and international journals in association with other authors are: Identification and characterization of high temperature stress responsive genes in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and their regulation at various stages of development (2011), in Plant Molecular Biology Journal 75: 35–51. Development of drought tolerant transgenic doubled haploid in wheat through Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (2011) in Plant Biotech Journal 9: 408–417. Carotenoid biosynthesis genes in rice: Structural analysis, genome-wide expression profiling and phylogenetic analysis (2010) Mol. Genet. Genomics Journal 283: 13–33. High-efficiency transformation and selective tolerance against biotic and abiotic stress in mulberry, Morus indica cv. K2, by constitutive and inducible expression of tobacco osmotin (2010) in Transgenic Research Journal 20: 231–246 Gene expression profile during somatic embryogenesis in wheat (Triticum aestivum) leaf base system (2007) in Plant Mol. Biology Journal 65: 677–692. Rosales sister to Fabales: towards resolving the rosid puzzle (2006) in Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution Journal 44: 488–493 The chloroplast genome of mulberry (Morus indica cv. K2): complete nucleotide sequence, gene organization and comparative analysis (2006) published in Tree Genetics & Genomes Journal 3: 49–59 The map-based sequence of the rice genome (2005) as part of International Rice Genome Sequencing Project, published in Nature 436: 793–800 Genetic transformation of Indian bread (T. aestivum) and pasta (T. durum) wheat by particle bombardment of mature embryo-derived calli (2003) published in BMC Plant Biology 3: 5–16 Bradyrhizobium japonicum lipopolysaccharide inhibits symplastic communication in soybean (Glycine max) cells (1989) in J. Biol. Chem. 264: 12119-12121