Sanjana Negi

• Deciphered the roles of transcription factors in secondary wall deposition and xylem development of banana plant. • Functions of NAC transcription in stress responses and stress induced senescence in plants. • Identified a novel cross regulation of VND transcription factors during secondary wall deposition. • Identification and characterization of stress inducible and xylem specific promoter for controlled expression of transgenes in plants. Current Area of Research • Identification and characterization of stress and nutrition associated genes in plants. • Crop improvement through genetic engineering approaches. • Genome editing in fruit crops.