Designation
Principal Scientist
Educational qualification
M.Sc (Ag), Ph.D(Plant Physiology)
Division
Crop Production
Contact Address
Indian Institute of Oilseeds Research
Rajendranagar, Hyderabad
Telangana, India - 500 030
Tel No
040-24598155
E-mail
lakshmi.prayaga@icar.gov.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" by ICAR-NIASM, Baramati, during 20-29th July 2017
- 3 day workshop on "Preparation of EFC/PIB proposals" by ISTM, New Delhi from 11-13 March 2019
- "Climate Change: Challenges and Response (for women scientists)" from 05th-09th October 2020 by Centre for Disaster Management (CDM), Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie.
Recent Publications (best papers in past 5 years )
- Yasaswini Chowdhary B, Lakshmi Prayaga, Narender Reddy S, Eshwari KB and Srikanth B and Meena HP .2021 Effect of water stress on physiological traits of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) restorer lines. Journal of Oilseeds Research 38(1): 54-58
- Yasaswini Chowdhary B, Lakshmi P, Narender Reddy S, Eshwari KB and Mahesh G .2020 (sp). Effect of drought on yield traits of sunflower restorer lines. Journal of Pharmacognosy and phytochemisty, 9(4): 541-544
- Aparna V, Lakshmi Prayaga, Arti Guhe and Lakshmamma P. 2020. Identification of temperature tolerant sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) inbreds. Journal of Oilseeds research, 37 (Special issue): 224-225
- Lakshmi Prayaga, Lakshmamma P and Sarada C. 2020. Role of seed age in screening for salt tolerance of sunflower at germination. Journal of Oilseeds research, 37 (Special issue): 161-162
- 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
Area of expertise
Abiotic stress tolerance, source-sink relationships, plant nutritional disorders