BIO-DATA Dr. HEMANT SOOD

Name of the applicant: Hemant Sood

Designation:Associate Professor

Address for Correspondence:Deptt. of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Domehar Bani, Teh. Kandaghat, Distt. Solan

Office Telephone: 01792-239226FAX: 01792-245362

E-mail: ,

Education: Ph.D. (Biotechnology), JUIT, Waknaghat, Solan; 2009; PG Diploma in IPR jointly from IGNOU and WIPO, Geneva (2012)

Biography

My research is focused on various aspects of plant tissue culture, be it development of micropropagation technologies for different plant species, selection of genetically superior cell lines for various traits, optimization of tissue culture protocols for use in genetic transformation, development of cell culture technologies for production of phytopharmaceuticals in high value medicinal plants. I was conferred with Indian Science Congress Young Scientist Award in 2011 for my Phd research work.I have developed successful micropropagation technology in my lab for 16 different plant species and others are in progress.I am presently focusing on sharing these developed technologies for endangered plants with farmers for improving their socio economic status.I was awarded with International Scholarship by the Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs which was availed at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Details of Educational Qualification

Degree / Subjects / Year of Passing / Name of Institution/ University
Post Graduate diploma IPR / Intellectual Property Rights / 2012 / IGNOU and WIPO Geneva
Ph.D. (Biotechnology) / Biotechnology & Bioinformatics / 2009 / Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan H.P
M.Sc. (Biotechnology) / Plant Biotechnology / 2001 / University of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni, Solan, H.P
B.Sc. (Biotechnology) / General Biotechnology / 1999 / H.P. University, Shimla

Professional Experience

Name & Address of the Employer / Nature of Work / Period
From / To
Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan H.P / Associate Professor / 30th September, 2017 / Till Date
Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan H.P / Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) / 1stAugust, 2013 / 29th September2017
Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan H.P / Assistant Professor (Grade-II) / August, 2011 / July, 2013
Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan H.P / Lecturer / August, 2009 / August, 2011
Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan H.P / Sr. Research Fellow (Teaching and research on Plant Tissue Culture) / July, 2006 / May, 2009
HP University, Govt. College, Mandi, (H.P) / Lecturer in Biotechnology to teach UG students / August, 2001 / Dec. 2004

Awards and Honours

  1. INDIAN SCIENCE CONGRESS ASSOCIATION YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD FOR THE YEAR 2010-11(Plant Sciences) was conferred by Dr. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan, 2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Cambridge.
  2. Awarded International Scholarship by the Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs availed at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (August 28 to Sept. 20, 2017)

Professional Development Through International/National Courses/Trainings/Workshops:

  1. Hemant Sood attended a National Symposium on “ Medical Image Acquisition, Processing and Analysis”from 20-22nd Nov.,2017 organized by Department of Biotechnology &Bioinformatics and Department of Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology JUIT at JUIT Waknaghat, Solan
  1. Hemant Sood attended a workshop on “Patent Drafting”on 13th Oct,2017 organized by JUIT Waknaghat, Solan
  2. International Post-Graduate Course with “Excellence” on Nutrition in a Changing Global Environment at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Robert S. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Environment, The International School of Agriculture Sciences, Israel, August 28 toSept. 20, 2017
  3. Hemant Sood Attended faculty Development programme organized by JUIT 14th-19th July, 2015
  4. Hemant Sood Attended faculty Development programme Outcome-based education in Biotechnologyorganized by Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, JUIT dated 24thto 30th December, 2014
  5. Hemant Sood attended a workshop on “Essential oil perfumery and aromatherapy from 12th – 14th March 2016 organized by MSME-Technology Development Center, Fragrance and Flavor development Centre, Kannauj-209726, at New Delhi, INDIA
  6. Hemant Sood attended a workshop on “Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights”on 9th December 2016 organized by TIFAC and JUIT Waknaghat Solan
  7. Hemant Sood attended a workshop on “Patent Filing and Geograhical Indications”on 27th Feburary,2017 organized by TIFAC and JUIT Waknaghat Solan
  8. Hemant Sood attended a workshop on “Startups and Innovative Projects”on 16th May,2017 organized by TIEDC ,HPCED and JUIT Waknaghat Solan

Session Chair

Chaired a session in International Conference “ICBBB 2012: International Conference on Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry” Venice, Italy on 12 April, 2012

Books published

Hemant Sood and R SChauhan 2016.Cell Culture Technologies in a medicinal Herb,Picrorhiza kurroa.LAP LABERT Academic Publishing ,OmniScriptum GmbH& Co. KG,Germany ISBN(978-3-659-93498-8)

Book chapter

1.Anshu Alok, Shivam Sharma, Jitesh Kumar, Subodh Vermaand Hemant Sood.2017. Engineering in Plant Genome Using Agrobacterium:Progress and Future .Metabolic Engineering from Bioactive compounds: Strategies and Process. Springer Singapore.pp91-112ISBN 978-981-10-5511-9 .

(A) Published Patent Application

  1. Hemant Sood and RS Chauhan(2009).Patent Application No. 163/DEL/2009 filed in India on “A process of enriching the amount of medicinal compound, Picroside-1 in shoots of medicinal herb, Picrorhiza kurroa”. Publication Date: (06/08/2010). Journal No.-32/2010
  2. Hemant Sood, Varun Kumar and RS Chauhan(2012). Patent Application No. 551/DEL/2012 filed in India on “Isolation and purification of Picroside-I and Picroside-II”. Publication Date: 14/02/2014. Journal No. - 07/2014
  3. Sharma Shivam, Hemant Sood and RS Chauhan(2012). Patent Application No. 1631/DEL/2012“INDITECH - A NOVEL BIOREACTOR”Publication Date: 25/07/2014
    Journal No. 29545
  4. Hemant Sood, S Gulati, S Bakshi, BS Sandhu,V Kumar and RS Chauhan(2013).Patent application No.362/DEL/2013.A process of enriching medicinal constituents in shoot cultures of Swertia chirayita. Publication Date: 29/08/2014.
  5. Prepared and submitted examination report of Patent Application No. 163/DEL/2009 filed in India on “A process of enriching the amount of medicinal compound, Picroside-1 in shoots of medicinal herb, Picrorhizakurroa” in July2017

(B) NBPGR Submissions

Generated tissue cultures of high value endangered medicinal herbs and deposited with the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), New Delhi. The following accession numbers were alloted by the NBPGR, New Delhi. These cultures have been deposited for the time in India as a result are a permanent resource for any R&D activity across India or even abroad.

1. Swertia chirayita Acc. No. IC-594053

2. Picrorhiza kurroa Acc. No. IC-0597952

3.Gentiana kurroo Acc. No. IC -0612563

4.Hypericum perforatum Acc. No. IC -0612564

(C) NCBI GenBank submission

1.KP299959- MYB Family transcription factor (PhMYB) mRNA, partial cds

2.KP299960- bZIP Family transcription factor (PhbZIP) mRNA, partial cds

3.KP299961-WRKY Family transcription factor (PhWRKY) mRNA, partial cds

(D) Best research Paper Awards in the International Conferences

1. Hemant Sood Hand RS Chauhan(2008).Optimization of tissue culture conditions for conservation of an endangered medicinal herb (Picrorhiza kurroa) of North–Western Himalayas. International Society of BioTechnology Conference (ISBT-2008) at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), Majitar,Gangtok, SIKKIM, India, Dec. 28-30, 2008.

2.Hemant Sood and Rajinder Singh Chauhan(2008).Callus induction and regenerationfrom different explants of a medicinal herb (Picrorhiza kurroa), for utilization in cell line selection. International Conference on Novel Approaches for Food and Health Security in High Altitudes , September 7-10, DIHAR, DRDO, Leh-Ladakh, India.

3. Pawan Kumar, Tarun Pal, Varun Jaiswal, Hemant Sood and Rajinder S. Chauhan (2014).Computational mining of transcriptomes for transcription factors controlling various biological processes in Podophyllum spp.2nd International Conference on Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences (Omics Group), Hyderabad, India February 03-05, 2014

(E) Best Poster Presentation Award in the National Conference

1.Sanya Bakshi, Sneha Gulati, Bhupinder Singh Sandhu , Pooja Tandon, Varun Kumar, Rajinder Chauhan and Hemant Sood 2012.Large-scale invitro multiplication of critically endangered herb Swertia chirayita in suspension cultures. National Seminar on Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture: Emerging Trends, Deptt. Of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, March10-11, 2012.

2. Devanshi popli and Hemant Sood.2016. Optimization of liquid media for enrichment of shoot biomass of critically endangered herb of Trans Himalayan region Dactylorhiza hatagyeria. 3rdprize in IEEE project presentation. 14th May, 2016. JUIT Waknaghat.Solan

(F) International and National Publications (Accepted & Communicated, Read Hemant Gautam as Hemant Sood)

  1. Jibesh Kumar Padhan, Pawan Kumar, Hemant Sood, Rajinder S. Chauhan.2017 Comparative Transcriptomics Uncovers Differences in Photoautotrophic versus Photoheterotrophic Modes of Nutrition in relation to Secondary Metabolites Biosynthesis in Swertia chirayita. Molecular Biology Reports. 1.82) WoS and Scopus .ISSN 03014851
  1. Payal Kotvi, Rhythem Sharma, Satyam Singh and Hemant Sood*2017 Gentipicroside Elicitation in Shoot Cultures of Gentiana kurroo and Swertia chirayita with Molecular Authentication. Proceedings for the International Conference on Biotechnology And Biomedicine organized by National Institute for Engineering and Research Hyderabad.13August 2017 .DOI 01.1617/vol4iss7pid47186 ISBN:9788192958012
  1. Hemant Sood(2017). Cultured cambial meristematic cells - a sustainable route towards in vitro production of phytochemicals. Adv Cell Sci Tissue Cult.1(1):1-2
  2. Ankita Rajata, Devanshi Popli Payal Kotvi and Hemant Sood (2017). Optimization of culture conditions for the production and germination of artifical seed in an important medicinal plant Nothapodytes nimoniana. International Journal Of Innovative Research in Science and Engineering.3(1):70-77.ISSN(O) 2454-9665ISSN(P) 2454-0663.Google citation
  3. Anaida Kad, Archit Pundir Shubham Sharma, and Hemant Sood (2017). Development of suspension cultures and ex-vitro rooting in Rauwolfia sepentina for rapid and large scale multiplication.International Journal Of Innovative Research in Science and Engineering.3(1):135-143.ISSN(O) 2454-9665 ISSN(P) 2454-0663.Google citation
  1. Shubham Sharma, Devanshi Popli Neha Sharma, O P Chaurasia and Hemant Sood (2016). Effect of temperature on in vitro organogenesis ofRhodiola imbricate Edgew-a medicinal herb.World Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.5(12) :1228-43. ISSN 2278-4357DOI:10.20959/wjpps201612-8266 SJIF (IF:6.041 Dec.)Google citation
  2. Shivam Sharma, Nikhil Malhotraand ,Hemant Sood(2016)Expression Analysis of Steroid Pathway Genes Revealed Positive Correlation with Diosgenin Biosynthesis in Trillium govanianumActa Physiologiae Plantarum.38(11): 1-8 Scopus Indexedand SCI DOI: 10.1007/s11738-016-2289-1 IF(1.62 )Print ISSN 0137-5881Springer Berlin Heidelberg
  1. Jibesh Kumar Padhan, Pawan Kumar, Hemant Sood, Rajinder S. Chauhan (2016). Prospecting NGS-transcriptomes to assess regulation of miRNA-mediated secondary metabolites biosynthesis in Swertia chirayita, a medicinal herb of the North-Western Himalayas. Medicinal Plants - International Journal of Phytomedicines and Related Industries 8.(3) 219-228 (IF- 0 .8) Scopus doi : 10.5958/0975-6892.2016.00029.
  2. Ira Vashisht, Tarun pal,Hemant Sood and Rajinder Chauhan (2016 Comparative transcriptome analysis in different tissues of a medicinal herb, Picrorhiza kurroa pinpoints transcription factors regulating picrosides biosynthesis. Mol Bio Reports.43 (12):1395-1409.DOI 10.1007/s11033-016-4073-0 (IF:1.6)(Scopus and SCI )
  3. Devanshi Popli, Shubham Sharma and Hemant Sood (2016). Optimization of liquid MS medium for enriching biomass of Dactylorhiza hatagirea. International Journal of Tropical Agriculture.34(5):1271-1276 ISSN0254-8755 (NAAS:3.03)
  4. Payal Kotvi, Enesh Vashist, Shivam Sharma and Hemant Sood(2016). Optimization of culture conditions for the production and germination of artifical seed in an important medicinal plant Gentian kurroo. Innovare Journal Of Agricultural Sciences 4(4):1-4.ISSN 2321-6832 DOI: (Google scholar)
  5. Varun Kumar, Neha Sharma , Hemant Sood, Rajinder S.Chauhan (2016) Exogenous feeding of immediate precursors reveals synergistic effect on picroside-I biosynthesis in shoot cultures of Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex Benth. Sci. Rep. 6: 29750.DOI: 10.1038/srep29750(IF 5.22) SCI
  6. Nikhil Malhotra, Hemant Sood , Rajinder S.Chauhan (2016) Transcriptome-wide mining suggests conglomerate of genes associated with tuberous root growth and development in Aconitum heterophyllum Wall. 3 Biotech (2016) 6(2):152ISSN 2190-5738( Impact Factor 0.99)DOI 10.1007/s13205-016-0466-y. Scopus andScience Citation Index(SCI)
  7. Shivam Sharma, Arun Sharma, Vineet Mehta, Rajinder Singh Chauhan, Udayabanu malairaman, Hemant Sood(2016)Efficient hydroalcoholic extraction for highest diosgenin content from Trillium govanianum (nag chhatri) and it’s in vitro anticancerous activity.Asian journal of pharmaceutical and clinical research.9(4):283-284 .IF(0.5 ) Scopus Indexed
  8. Neha Sharma, Rajinder Singh Chauhan and Hemant Sood (2016) Discerning picroside-I biosynthesis via molecular dissection of in vitro shoot regeneration in Picrorhiza kurroa. Plant Cell Reports.35(8)1601-1615 doi: 10.1007/s00299-016-1976-0 (IF-3.07)Scopus and SCI
  9. Neha Sharma, Varun Kumar, Rajinder Singh Chauhan and Hemant Sood (2016) Modulation of picroside-I biosynthesis ingrown elicited shoots of Picrorhiza kurroain vitro. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 35(4):965-973 doi:10.1007/s00344-016-9594-1 (IF-2.23) Scopus and SCI
  10. Varun Kumar, Kirti Shitiz,Hemant Sood, Rajinder Singh Chauhan andChanderdeep Tandon (2016). Tracking dynamics of enzyme activities and their gene expression in Picrorhiza kurroa with respect to picroside accumulation.Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology.25(2):125:132(IF-1.09)Scopus and SCI
  11. Manali Gangwar, Hemant SoodandRajinder Singh Chauhan (2016). Genomics and relative expression analysis identifies key genes associated with high female to male flower ratio in Jatropha curcas L. Molecular Biology Reports. 43(4)305-322 doi: 0.1007/s11033-016-3953-7 (IF- 2.024)Scopus and SCI
  12. Kirti Shitiz, Neha Sharma, Tarun Pal, Hemant SoodandRajinder Singh Chauhan (2015).NGS Transcriptomes and Enzyme Inhibitors Unravel Complexity of Picrosides Biosynthesis in Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex. Benth. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0144546 (IF-3.23)Scopus and SCI
  13. Varun Kumar, Hemant SoodandRajinder Singh Chauhan (2015). Optimization of a preparative RP-HPLC method for isolation and purification of picrosides in Picrorhiza kurroa.Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 25(2):205-214 (IF-1.09) Scopus and SCI
  1. Manali Gangwar, Swati Sharma, Rajinder Singh Chauhan andHemant Sood (2015). Indirect shoot organogenesis in Jatropha curcus(L) for in vitropropagation. Indian Journal of Research-pariplex.4(12):56-58(ISSN No. 2250-1991,Google Scholar)
  2. Hemant Sood, Kirti Shitiz, Neha Sharma (2015). Rapid method for in vitro multiplication of hypericin rich shoots of Hypericum perforatum. Journal of plant Sciences3(5): 279-284 (ISSN: 2331-0731)Scopus Index
  3. Varun Kumar, Neha Sharma, Kirti Shitiz, Tiratha Raj Singh, Chanderdeep Tandon, Hemant Sood, Rajinder S. Chauhan (2015). An insight into conflux of metabolic traffic leading to picroside-I biosynthesis by tracking molecular time course changes in a medicinal herb, Picrorhiza kurroa. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture.123(2):435-441(IF-2.12)Scopus and SCI
  4. Jibesh Kumar Padhan, Varun Kumar, Hemant Sood, Tiratha Raj Singh, Rajinder S. Chauhan (2015). Contents of therapeutic metabolites in Swertia chirayita correlate with the expression profiles of multiple genes in corresponding biosynthesis pathways. Phytochemistry, 116, 38-47 (IF-2.54)Scopus and SCI
  5. Neha Sharma, Rajinder Singh Chauhan and Hemant Sood (2015). Seaweed extract as a novel elicitor and medium for mass propagation and picroside -1 production in an endangered medicinal herb Picrorhiza kurroa. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture. 122(1) :57-65 (IF-2.12)Scopus and SCI
  6. Neha Sharma, Kirti Shitiz, Disha Kalia, Jasleen Kaur Ahuja, Rajinder Singh Chauhan, Hemant Sood (2014). Expression analysis of key genes for Picroside-I production in in vitro grown shoots of different genotypes and species of endangered herb Picrorhiza. International Journal of Basic and Applied Biology. 2 (1): 36-39(Google Index)
  7. Varun Kumar, Hemant Sood and Rajinder Singh Chauhan (2015) Detection ofintermediates through high-resolution mass spectrometry for constructing biosynthetic pathways for major chemical constituents in a medicinally important herb, Swertia chirayita, Natural Product Research: Formerly Natural Product Letters.29(15):1449-55DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2015.1004175 (IF-1.6)Scopus and SCI
  8. Pawan Kumar, Tarun Pal, Neha Sharma, Varun Kumar, Hemant Sood, Rajinder S. Chauhan (2014) Expression analysis of biosynthetic pathway genes vis-à-vis podophyllotoxin content in Podophyllum hexandrum Royle.Protoplasma.252(5):1253-62DOI:10.1007/s00709-015-0757-x (IF- 2.65)Scopus and SCI
  9. Chaynika Kapoor, Shrutkirti, Rajinder Singh Chauhan and Hemant. Sood (2014) Seaweed Extract for Micropropagation and Production of Secondary Metabolites in an Endangered Herb Swertia chirayita.International Journal of Agriculture and Food Science Technology.5(7): 801-810801-810(ISSN 2249-3050)
  10. Nikhil Malhotra, Varun Kumar, Hemant Sood, Tiratha Raj Singh and Rajinder Singh Chauhan (2014). Multiple Genes of Mevalonate and Non-mevalonate Pathways Contribute to High Aconites Content in an Endangered Medicinal Herb, Aconitum heterophyllum Wall. Phytochemistry 108:26-34 (2.54)Scopus and SCI
  11. Varun Kumar, Varun Kumar, Rajinder Singh Chauhan, Hemant Sood and Chanderdeep Tandon (2014) Cost effective quantification of picrosides in Picrorhiza kurroa by employing response surface methodology using HPLC-UV.Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology. 24(4):376-384.DOI 10.1007/s13562-014-0285-3 (IF-1.09)Scopus and SCI
  12. Anil Kumar, Shiwani Kaushal, Shivam Sharma, Hemant Sood(2014).In vitrocallus induction and plantlet regeneration of Swertia Chirayita:A critically endangered medicinal plant.International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research. 27(1): 94-96. (ISSN: 0976-044X) Scopus Index
  13. Ashish R. Warghat, Prabodh K. Bajpai,O.P. Chaurasia, Ravi B. Srivastava, Rajinder Singh Chauhan and Hemant Sood (2014).In vitro protocorm development and mass multiplication of an endangered orchid Dactylorhiza hatagirea. Turkish Journal of Botany,38:737-746 (IF 1.61)Scopus and SCI
  14. Ashish R. Warghat, Prabodh K. Bajpai1, Ravi B. Srivastava and Hemant Sood(2013). Population genetic structure and conservation of small fragmented locations of Dactylorhiza hatagirea in Ladakh region of India. Scientia Horticulturae.164:448-454(IF-1.5)Scopus
  15. Varun Kumar, Rajinder Singh Chauhan and Hemant Sood (2013) In vitro production and efficient quantification of major phytopharmaceuticals in an endangered medicinal herb, Swertia chirata. International Journal of Biotechnology and Bioengineering Research.5(4).495-506 (ISSN 2231-1238)
  16. Kumar Varun, Hemant Sood and Rajinder Singh Chauhan (2013). A Proposed Biosynthetic Pathway of Picrosides Linked through the Detection of Biochemical Intermediates in the Endangered Medicinal Herb Picrorhiza kurroa. Phytochemical Analysis.24(6):598-602 doi: 10.1002/pca.2437.(IF-2.45)
  17. Anil kumar, Shiwani Kaushal, Shivam Sharma, Hemant Sood, D. R. Sharma (2013) Novel method of bioreactor to propagate Swertia Chirayita: A critically endangered medicinal plant, Weekly Science, 1(4)(ISSN: 2321-7871)
  18. Saurabh Pandit, Hemant Sood and Rajinder Singh Chauhan (2013) Expression Pattern of Fifteen Genes of Non-mevalonate (MEP) and Mevalonate (MVA) Pathways in Different Tissues of Endangered Medicinal Herb Picrorhizakurroa with respect to Picrosides Content, Molecular Biology Reports, 40:1053-1063, (IF-1.9)Scopus and SCI
  19. Saurabh Pandit, HemantSood and Rajinder S. Chauhan (2012).Differential Biosynthesis and Accumulation of Picrosides in an Endangered Medicinal Herb Picrorhizakurroa, Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 21:1-8(IF-1.09)Scopus and SCI
  20. Bhupinder Singh Sandhu, Hemant Sood,Sneha Gulati and RS Chauhan (2012).In vitromultiplication and production of picrosides by using elicitors in endangered medicinal herb Picrorhiza scrophulariiflora. Crop Improvement. 91-92(ISSN 0256-0933)
  21. Bhatt Anu, Shubi Kansal,RS Chuahan and Hemant Sood (2012).Modified tissue culture procedure for micropropagation of apple root stocks. International Journal of Plant Developmental Biology. 6(1) 67-72(ISSN: 1749-4753)
  22. Ashish R. Warghat, Prabodh K. Bajpai, Ashutosh A. Murkute, Hemant Sood, Om P. Chaurasia and Ravi B. Srivastava (2012). Genetic diversity and population structure of Dactylorhiza hatagirea (Orchidaceae) in cold desert Ladakh region of India.Journal of Medicinal Plants Research 6(12): 2388-2395.(IF-0.87)
  23. Taru Prasad, Zain Taha, R.S. Chauhan and Hemant Sood(2011). Improvising procedures of micropropagation of Gerbera jamesonii for cost effectiveness and their commercial production. International Journal for Applied Engineering and Research.6(5):1135-1140(ISSN 0973-4562)
  24. HemantSood and Rajinder Singh Chauhan (2011).Different Tissue Culture Parameters used for Increased Shoot Biomass and its Enrichment for a Medicinal Compound, Picroside-1 in an Endangered Herb, Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex Benth ResearchBioscientia. 2(4):13-22.(ISSN 2230-9446)
  25. Hemant Sood and Rajinder Singh Chauhan(2010). Biosynthesis and Accumulation of a Medicinal Compound, Picroside-1 in Cultures of Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex Benth. Plant Cell Tissue Organ Culture Plant Cell Tissue Organ Culture100:113-117.(IF-2.12)Scopus and SCI
  26. Hemant Sood and RS Chauhan(2009). Development of a low cost micropropagationtechnology for an endangered medicinal herb (Picrorhiza kurroa) of north-western Himalayas. Journal of Plant Sciences4(2):21-31(IF-1.69)Scopus
  27. Kaur, R.,Gautam, H.. and Sharma, D.R. (2005). Simpleand low cost strategy for micropropagation of strawberry. Acta Horticulturae. 696: 129-133., (IF-1.5)Scopus
  28. Gautam, H., Kaur, R., Sharma, D.R. and Thakur, N. (2001). A comparative study onin vitro and ex vitro rooting of micropropagated shoots of strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa). J. Plant Cell Biotech. and Mol. Biol.3:149-152.
  29. Thakur, N., Kaur, R., Gautam, H.. and Sharma, D.R. (2001). Effect of chemicals on enhancement of in vitro bulblet size of lilum.. J. Plant Cell Biotech. and Mol. Biol. 3:69-72.
  30. Gautam, H., Kaur, R., Sharma, D.R. and Thakur, N. (2001). Bacillusthuringiensis: recombinant pesticide. Science and Culture. 67:362-364.

(G) International/National Conference Papers