Thesis printed and submitted

Acknowledgements

I want to acknowlegde all those, who stood with me, during this journey towards my Ph.d thesis and here the acknowledgement.

I dedicate this thesis to my friend Late Dr. Pankaj Patil, who shared a burning desire to start biotech venture with me. His accident and death during trekking in Lonavala Hills, was the first major tragedy, I witnessed in Life and it was a great loss for me. My Ph.D. degree will be a stepping stone towards our dream to build a Biotech Venture.


Ph.D is a memorable and significant part of my life. From an Aimless chap, I have become more focused, not only in profession, but also in my personal life. The Ph.D journey started with my friend Late. Dr. Pankaj Patil, with whom I travelled all the way from IIT, Kharagpur to National Chemical Laboratory to meet Dr. Vidya Gupta, my Thesis advisor for Ph.D. position.

The first meeting with Dr.Vidya Gupta has created a sense of devotion and respect towards her and a confidence that I can perform well in her guidance. She offered me a challenging problem work and guided me to overcome lot of hurdles, to learn by myself. The wonderful part of her attitude is that, she practices a gardener attitude in grooming research students, that is a gardner, will water the plant, applies manure, protect it from pest, disease and feels happy, when it flowers. She encourages the research students, to practice any innovative ideas, develop their own solution and help others to learn. Continous encouragement of Dr.Vidya S Gupta, helped me not only to concentrate on research work but also extra curricular acitivities like entrepreneurship programme, business plan competition etc.

Initially my days with Shashi, Ajay, Rejasekhar Reddy, Suhas and Abhay were quiet wonderful, memorable, they were friendlier and made me very comfortable in Lab. My research work training started with Rashmi, who taught me all basic molecular biology skills and made to take firm steps into my work. Thanks to you Rashmi. Affection and care of Maneesha, helped me to plan myself and accommodated well in research. I laud the help and care taken by Dr. Meena Lagu, in sincerely planning my research work, motivating and boosting me to undertake new initiatives in my problem work. I express my gratitude to IAESTE foundation for warding me 6 months fellowship to visit IPK, Germany. I adore the warm gratitude of Dr. Marion Roder, while hosting me in her Lab for 6 months and her constant advice, supervision helped me to accomplish a significant part of my work in her Lab. I express my thanks to Ms. Anja and Dr. Azhaguvel for making my 6 months stay a comfortable and happier one. Ms. Anja, never denied any help and supported me, throughout my stay in Germany. Dr. Azhaguvel, is my inspiration and model, that any simple person, with extraordinary vision can create remarkable improvement iin his life. I express my gratitude to Dr. Kamal Kumar, for his great help and support.

Friends are big part of my life, I convey my thanks to god sent friend Thiru (Virus), who was associated with me from throughout my Ph.D. and helped me in every walks of my Ph.D. He is one of the best person and good hearted man. My Ph.D. would have been very dry (day) if I might not have met him. I also take this opportunity to thank Marivel (Koki kumar) and Balaji (Nadas) for giving all type of entertainment during this Ph.D. programme. I thank Sathya, Chennai, for introducing me to wonderful literature and for his great financial support, motivation and inspiration. Thanks to you Sathya.

I thank Sofia for her constant motivation and igniting my spirit, to pursue good research. I also thank her for motivating me, till I write this thesis. I thank Aditi, Ramya, Neeta for being affectionate and very friendly throughout my Ph.D. programme and often providing me some great home made dishes (not Aditi). I thank Aditi for introducing me to many wonderful English, Hindi movies and songs, making entertainment a part of this Ph.D. programme. Throughout my Ph.D, I have come a long way with my sisters Ramya and Neeta, for bearing me, when I get annoyed and comfort me during my failures.

I feel privileged to be associated with Dr. Bhushan through our wheat project and had given me critical advice not only in research work, but also in personal life. Bhushan I am proud of you.

I thank Prof. D.V.R Seshadri, IIM Bangalore for teaching the purpose of Life and awakening the entrepreneurship attitude. The month long stay in Chennai during Technology Led Entrepreneurship programme, was the most happiest and memorable period during my Ph.D. and I thank CSIR for organizing a wonderful programme. I also thanks Dr. Sivaram, NCL, Dr. Avinash Dwivedy, CSIR-NewDelhi, Dr. MG Kulkarni, NCL for taking major inititiatve towards this programme.

I would like to extend special thanks to Dr. Naren, for his patience in reading my manuscript and teaching me statistical softwares and Dr. Ashok for his help during my Germany trip and his constant motivation, enthusiasm, is something which I would love to learn.

I would to thank my business plan group members Arumugam, Basheer, Koil Kumar, Ramjee (TLED programme) and further I thank my UK business plan group members Ashwini, Rakesh, Sameer, Nagraj for their wonderful cooperation and hard work.

I thank Lalitha and Geetha for their sincerity in proof reading my thesis. I thank poonam and geetha for being friendly and helpful.

I take this opportunity to thank Richa, who is associated with me in wheat project for last 3 years and been a skillful colleague and a nice friend. Her extraordinary role, in terms of help is something which I will remember throughout my life. I am proud of you Richa.

Friends are big part of my life, I convey my special thanks to Manje, Krishna, Poonam, Rasika, Varsha, Ram, Ashwini, Charu, Ajit, Atul, Pawan and Laxmi for supporting me throughout my Ph.D. I would also like to thank Gauri, Manasi T, Vaiju, Pawan, Radhika, Sagar, Hemangi, Manasi M, Jidnyasa, Arun, Priya, Neha, Prashant, Suchitra for their help and motivation.

I also thank Dr. Savitha for her meticulous corrections and help during thesis priting and submission

I take this opportunity to thank my parents, Mr. Mani and Mrs. Prema for their love and affection. I also thank my sisters Mrs. Srividya, Mrs. Sridevi and Ms. Uma for their support, kindness and affection.

There may be many good hearted souls, not acknowledged in this page. Please dont mind.

Thus my Ph.D. has been a wonderful journey, which gave me a good learning experience, not only in terms of profession, but also personal life.