Biography:
Bijayalaxmi Mohanty received her MSc and MPhil degree from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India in 1983 and 1985 respectively and PhD degree from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1991. She is currently a Visiting Research Scientist at the NUS Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Her main research interests focus on the abiotic stress tolerance in rice and other plants, plant genomics, metabolic and transcriptional regulation, integrative omics approaches to different abiotic stress conditions and plant modeling. She is the Associate Editor for Current Plant Biology, Plant Biophysics and Modeling, Frontiers in Plant Science, Crop Design and Review Editor for more than 30 internationally referred journals.


Title : Plant systems biology: Application to rice for understanding drought stress response mechanism during vegetative, reproductive and grain-filling stages
Title : Promoter architecture and transcriptional regulation of genes upregulated in germination and coleoptile elongation of diverse rice genotypes tolerant to submergence
Title : Plant systems biology: Application to rice for understanding metabolic and regulatory characteristics under different abiotic and biotic stress conditions