Designation
Principal Scientist
Educational qualification
M.Sc (Ag), Ph.D(Plant Physiology)
Division
Crop Production
Contact Address
Indian Institute of Oilseeds Research
Rajendranagar, Hyderabad 500 030
Tel No
040-24598155
E-mail
lakshmi.prayaga@icar.org.in
lprayaga@rediffmail.com
Projects completed
- Identification of optimum range for different traits for development of ideotype
- Identification of suitable hybrids for drought conditions
- Evaluation of sunflower inbreds for identification physiologically efficient types for development of hybrids suitable to different agro-climatic conditions
- Identification of optimum temperatures for oleic accumulation
- Development of suitable techniques for rapid screening of P efficient genotpes of sunflower
On-going Projects
- Identification of physiologically efficient sunflower lines and inbreds tolerant to abiotic stresses
Trainings undertaken (National & International)
- "Phenomics : Perspectives for application in improvement of abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants" held at ICAR-NIASM, Baramati, during 20-29th July 2017
Recent Publications (best papers in past 5 years )
- Aziz Qureshi A and Lakshmi Prayaga 2016 identification of critical P level for sunflower (helianthus annuus L.) in solution culture for P aquisition. Journal of Oilseeds Research . 33(1): 79-82
- Lakshmi Prayaga, C. Sarada and Lakshmamma P 2017. Seed priming for improving germination of sunflower at low temperature. Journal of Oilseeds Research. 93-97
- Geetha A, A Sivasankar, P Saidiah, Lakshmi Prayaga 2017 Antioxidant enzyme response in water stress sunflower genotypes. International journal of current microbiology and applied sciences.6(5) : 138-146)(NAAS rating : 5.38)
- Geetha A, A Sivasankar, P Saidiah, Lakshmi Prayaga 2017 Effect of moisture stress on key physiological parametersin sunflower genotypes. International journal of current microbiology and applied sciences.6(5) : 147-159)(NAAS rating : 5.38)
- Parvathaneni L., L. prayaga and A. Karusala 2017. Selection of castor germplasm with important traits for drought tolerance under field conditions. Indian Journal of Plant Physiology 22(3): 295-303
Area of expertise
Abiotic stress tolerance, source-sink relationships, plant nutritional disorders