Dr. Sini Thomas K.

Dr. Sini Thomas K. completed her graduation from College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Kerala Agricultural University (2009). She obtained her M.Sc. (2012) and Ph. D.  Degree (2016) in Plant Physiology from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. She received ICAR-JRF Fellowship for his M.Sc. and ICAR-SRF for his Ph.D. programme.

Publications:

1. Sini Thomas, Anjali Anand, Viswanthan Chinnusamy,Anil Dahuja, Sudipta Basu (2013). Magnetopriming circumvents the effect of salinity stress on germination in chickpea seeds. Acta Physiologiae plantarum. 35: 3101-3411

2. Umesh Deepika Kr, Pal Madan, Shah Divya and Thomas Sini (2016).Identifying veritable sources of heat tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.). International journal of Agricultural Sciences 8(53):2743-2746

3. Saneesh Thomas, K. Muthumizhi and Sini Thomas K. (2017). Carbon Dioxide miscible sequestration methods: A review. Proceedings on International conference in Frontiers in Engineering Applied Science and Technology, National Institute of Technology - Tiruchirappalli (ISBN 978-81-908388-8-7)

4. Sini Thomas, R. S. Ramakrishnan and Anjali Anand (2019). Growth, Na/K partitioning and yield of chickpea plants alleviated from salt stress by magnetopriming. International J. of Current microbiology and applied sciences 8(7):821-833.

5. Sini Thomas, R. Shiv Ramakrishnan, Ashish Kumar, Radheshyam Sharma, Medha Tiwari & Nidhi Pathak (2020). Putrescine as a polyamines & its role in abiotic stress tolerance: A Review. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry ((1):815-820.

6. Sini Thomas, G.K. Krishna, Pragya Yadav and Madan Pal (2019). Cloning and abiotic stress responsive expression analysis of Arginine decarboxylase genes in contrasting rice genotypes. The Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 79(2): 411-419

Awards/Scholarships Received

1. Awarded Indian Council of Agricultural Research - Junior Research Fellowship (ICAR- JRF)  For masters for the period 2010-2012
2. Awarded  Indian Council of Agricultural Research -Senior Research Fellowship (ICAR- SRF) in the discipline of  “Plant Physiology” in 2013
3.  M. Sc. Work received Best poster award in Third International Agronomy Congress on Nov. 26-30, 2012 held at New Delhi, India