Anil Kumar Saxena

Employment

• National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms Director
  2016 - Present
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute Head
  2009 - 2015
• National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms Principal scientist
  2006 - 2009
• National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms Senior scientist
  2005 - 2006
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute Senior Scientist
  1998 - 2005
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute Scientist (Sr.Scale)
  1994 - 1998
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute Scientist
  1989 - 1994

Education

• Indian Agricultural Research Institute Ph. D.
  1984 - 1988
• University of Delhi M.Sc.
  1982 - 1984
• Kirori Mal College B.Sc.
  1980 - 1982

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (45)

• Selection of competitive and effective rhizobial strain for enhanced chickpea production under Indo-Gangetic plains of India
  Brazilian Journal of Microbiology 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s42770-025-01788-6
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• Population and genetic diversity of rhizobia nodulating chickpea in Indo-Gangetic plains of India
  Brazilian Journal of Microbiology 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s42770-024-01473-0
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• Chasmophyte associated stress tolerant bacteria confer drought resilience to chickpea through efficient nutrient mining and modulation of stress response
  Scientific Reports 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-58695-3
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• Deciphering the genetic and functional diversity of cultivable bacteria from chasmophytic pigweed (Chenopodium album) from Tsomoriri, Ladakh, India
  3 Biotech 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-022-03278-0
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• Seasonal variations in culturable archaea and their plant growth promoting attributes to predict their role in establishment of vegetation in Rann of Kutch
  Biologia 2019 DOI: 10.2478/s11756-019-00259-2
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• Trichoderma–Azotobacter biofilm inoculation improves soil nutrient availability and plant growth in wheat and cotton
  Journal of Basic Microbiology 2019 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201900009
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• Buffering Reduces Potassium Solubilising Potential of Selected Bacterial Isolates
  Biosciences, Biotechnology Research Asia 2019 DOI: 10.13005/bbra/2716
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• Agriculturally important microbial biofilms: Present status and future prospects
  Journal of Basic Microbiology 2017 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201700046
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• Prospecting cold deserts of north western Himalayas for microbial diversity and plant growth promoting attributes
  Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2014.11.006
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• A new spectrophotometric method for quantification of potassium solubilized by bacterial cultures.
  2014
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