Research

Totan Kumar Ghosh, PhD

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU), Gazipur-1706, Bangladesh.

E- Email: totan@bsmrau.edu.bd
Cell: +8801879962527 (Bangladesh)
Office: +88(02)9205310-14(2495 Ext.)
Web: https://bsmrau.edu.bd/totan

Name of the laboratory: Plant Physiology and Ecology

Research Group:

PI: Prof. Dr. Totan Kumar Ghosh

Members:

S.M. Zubair Al-Meraj (Assistant Professor)
Anika Nazran (Lecturer)
Tasnima Husna (MS student)

Ongoing Research Project

Biochemical and molecular strategies of bryophytes against desiccation stress ($5000, funded by Research Management Wing, BSMRAU, 2018-2021)

Research Projects (Completed)

Sl. No	Research project	Funding Year	Funding organization	Role	Grant in BD Taka	Grant in US Dollar
1	Conservation of rare and endangered medicinal plant	2011-2012	Research Management Committee (RMC), BSMRAU	Principal Investigator	500000	$ 6500
2	Establishment of digital herbarium and herbal musium	2016-2018	World Bank and University Grants Commission (UGC), Bangladesh	Co-Principal Investigator	2,00,00000/-	$2,50,000
3	Evolutionary role of Abscisic acid (ABA) in the accumulation of proline in Physcomitrella patens	2017-18	Ministry of Science and Technology, Bangladesh Govt.	Principal Investigator	300000/-	$4000
4	Exploration of drought stress acclimation mechanisms in basal land plants Liverworts	2018-19	Ministry of Science and Technology, Bangladesh Govt	Principal Investigator	350000/-	$4600

National and international Research Collaboration

Dr. Mohammad Golam Mostofa

Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Faculty of Agriculture, BSMRAU
Email: mostofa@bsmrau.edu.bd

Takezawa Daisuke

Professor
Department of Regulatory Biology
Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Saitama University, Japan
Email: takezawa@mail.saitama-u.ac.jp

Student Supervised

Name of students	Program and research	Role
Tasnima Husna	Antioxidative properties of medicinal plant Paederia foetida	Major Professor (Ongoing)
Md. Zubair Al-Meraj	Antioxidant potentials in potato genotypes	Major Professor
Md. Pavel Mollah	Screening of aromatic rice genotypes against salt stress	Committee member
Anika Nazran	Drought tolerance of Mungbean	Committee member
Samia Haque Binto	In-vitro organogenesis of valuable medicinal plant Paederia foetida	Major Professor
Naznin Haque Tompa	Drought stress acclimation by liverworts	Major Professor
Luthfun Nahar	Indirect organogenesis in cucumber	Committee member
Ashrafun Nahar	Regulation of biofilm from waste water	Committee member
Suma Rani Ghosh	Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) in arsenic treated field pea crop	Committee member
A.Z.M Safiullah Prodhan	Performance of Broccoli as influenced by different field condition	Committee member
Poly Roy	Screening of rice genotypes in response to nutritional quality	Committee member