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{{Short description|Indian molecular biologist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Anil Grover
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1958|8|15}}
| birth_place = [[Delhi]], India
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| residence = [[Janakpuri]], [[New Delhi]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | Plant [[molecular biology]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] | Tata Energy and Resources Institute | [[University of Delhi]] | [[University of Guelph]] | [[CSIRO]] Division of Plant Industry | [[University of California, Davis]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[University of Delhi]] | [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist | S. K. Sinha }}
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Studies on [[Oryza sativa]] and [[Arabidopsis thaliana]]
| awards = {{ublist| 1990 [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Young Scientists Medal | 1997 B. M. Birla Science Prize | 2002 [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] | [[Indian Science Congress Association|ISCA]] Professor Hira Lal Chakravarty Award }}
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'''Anil Grover''' (born 15 August 1958) is an Indian molecular biologist, professor and the head of the Department of Plant Molecular Biology at the [[University of Delhi]]. He also heads the ''Anil Grover Lab'' of the department, serving as the principal investigator. Known for his research in the field of [[molecular biology]] of plants, Grover is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies namely the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]], the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] and the [[Indian National Science Academy]] as well as the [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]]. The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2002.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20 |archive-date=4 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304191331/http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Biography ==
[[File:Delhiuni.jpg|thumb|left|University of Delhi]]
Anil Grover, born on the [[Indian Independence Day]] of 1958<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Grover,_Prof._Anil |title=Fellow profile |date=2017-12-06 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-12-06}}</ref> in the [[National Capital Region (India)|National Capital Region]] of Delhi to Shori Singh Grover-Krishna Grover couple, did his undergraduate and master's studies at the [[University of Delhi]], earning the degrees of BSc (honors) and MSc in 1977 and 1979 respectively.<ref name="University Faculty Details Page on DU Web-site">{{Cite web |url=http://www.du.ac.in/du/uploads/Faculty%20Profiles/2017/PMB/Aug2017_PMB_Anil%20.pdf |title=University Faculty Details Page on DU Web-site |date=2017-12-06 |website=University of Delhi |access-date=2017-12-06}}</ref> Subsequently, he did his doctoral research at the [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]] under the guidance of S. K. Sinha and secured a PhD in 1984 for his thesis, ''Carbon Nitrogen Metabolism of Leaves Supporting Developing Pods in Legumes''. He started his career as a research associate at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in 1984 but moved to Tata Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi in 1985, again as a research associate.<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P07-1435 |title=Indian fellow |date=2017-12-06 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-12-06}}</ref>

[[File:Oryza sativa - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-232.jpg|thumb|235px|[[Oryza sativa]] - commonly known as Asian rice]]
In 1987, Grover went to Canada to continue his research at the [[University of Guelph]] and returned to India in 1988 to join his alma mater, Delhi University, as a scientist. A year later, he moved to the faculty position of a lecturer and worked in that position until 1993, simultaneously continuing his research at the university. It was during this time he received [[Rockefeller Foundation]] post-doctoral fellowship which he utilized to do his post-doctoral work at the [[CSIRO]] Division of Plant Industry in Australia. He returned to Delhi University in 1994 and resumed his career, taking up the post of a senior lecturer. He has been associated with Delhi University ever since, holding positions of a reader during 1996–2002, a professor since 2002 and heads the Department of Plant Molecular Biology.<ref name="Department of Plant Molecular Biology - Anil Grover">{{Cite web |url=http://dpmb.ac.in/index.php?page=AG |title=Department of Plant Molecular Biology - Anil Grover |date=2017-12-06 |website=dpmb.ac.in |access-date=2017-12-06}}</ref><ref name="Department of Plant Molecular Biology - University of Delhi">{{Cite web |url=http://www.du.ac.in/du/index.php?page=plant-molecular-biology |title=Department of Plant Molecular Biology - University of Delhi |date=2017-12-06 |website=www.du.ac.in |language=en |access-date=2017-12-06}}</ref><ref name="Professor Anil Grover, Head Department of Plant Molecular Biology">{{Cite web |url=http://www.fist-dst.org/html-flies/department-delhi-university/FIST__Dept_Format__1_.pdf |title=Professor Anil Grover, Head Department of Plant Molecular Biology |date=2017-12-06 |website=University of Delhi |access-date=2017-12-06}}</ref> He also heads ''Anil Grover Lab'' where he hosts a number of research scholars as their principal investigator.<ref name="Lab Members - anilgrover lab">{{Cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/anilgroverlab/lab-members |title=Lab Members - anilgrover lab |date=2017-12-06 |website=sites.google.com |access-date=2017-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314041006/https://sites.google.com/site/anilgroverlab/lab-members |archive-date=14 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He had a second stint at CSIRO Division of Plant Industry during 1996–98, this time as a career fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. He also had a sabbatical at the [[University of California, Davis]] as a visiting fellow from 2002 to 2004.<ref name="University Faculty Details Page on DU Web-site" />

Anil Grover is married to Anita Grover and the family lives in [[Janakpuri]], [[New Delhi]].<ref name="NAAS Fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://naasindia.org/detail.php?id=157 |title=NAAS Fellows |date=2017-12-06 |website=National Academy of Agricultural Sciences |access-date=2017-12-06}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Grover's work is primarily focused on [[rice]] crop and [[Arabidopsis thaliana]], a common weed found in India and their [[gene expression]]s to heat stress.<ref name="Department of Plant Molecular Biology - Anil Grover" /> He demonstrated through [[transcriptome]] and [[proteome]] studies that heat stress affects the biochemical, cellular and physiological processes of the plant and these studies have assisted in widening the understanding of genomic and proteomic alterations as well as the [[Reactive oxygen species|ROS]] metabolism of the plant.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Grover=3AAnil=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2017-12-06 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-12-06}}</ref><ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4bibCcQAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2017-11-23 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2017-11-23}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific articles has listed 161 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anil_Grover3 |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-11-23 |access-date=2017-11-23}}</ref> He has also mentored several research scholars in their doctoral and master's studies.<ref name="Abiotic Stress Adaptation in Plants">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0SlLemeqPVUC&pg=PR23 |title=Abiotic Stress Adaptation in Plants |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |year=2010 |isbn=978-90-481-3113-6 |pages=23–}}</ref>

Grover sits in the national committee of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] for cooperating with the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS)<ref name="Indian fellow" /> and is a member of the board of directors of the 12th congress of the International Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB2018) scheduled to be held in [[Montpellier]]<ref name="IPMB BOARD">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ipmb2018.org/#organizing-committee |title=IPMB BOARD |date=2017-12-07 |website=International Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB2018) |access-date=2017-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171208003608/https://www.ipmb2018.org/#organizing-committee |archive-date=8 December 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is a former member of the ''Plant Science'' and an editorial board member of ''Plant Physiology and Biochemistry'', both journals published by [[Elsevier]].<ref name="Editorial board Plant Physiology and Biochemistry">{{Cite web |url=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/plant-physiology-and-biochemistry/editorial-board |title=Editorial board Plant Physiology and Biochemistry |date=2017-12-07 |website=Plant Physiology and Biochemistry |access-date=2017-12-07}}</ref> He guest-edited the special issue of ''Plant Reproduction'' journal on pollen development and the special issues of ''[[Current Science]]'' on Transgenic Crops in February 2003 and ''Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants'' in 2008.<ref name="Indian fellow" />

== Awards and honors ==
Anil Grover, a member of the [[Guha Research Conference]] and a recipient of the Professor Hira Lal Chakravarty Award of the [[Indian Science Congress Association]], received Young Scientists Medal of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 1990 and the B. M. Birla Science Prize of the Birla Science Centre in 1997.<ref name="B M Birla Science Prize">{{Cite web |url=http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/awards/birlaSciencePrizes/ |title=B M Birla Science Prize |date=2017-12-06 |website=www.birlasciencecentre.org |access-date=2017-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128175901/http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/awards/birlaSciencePrizes/ |archive-date=28 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Two years later, the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] elected him as a fellow in 1999.<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=G |title=NASI fellows |date=2017-11-12 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2017-11-12 |archive-date=21 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021102942/http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=G |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2002.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" /> He received the elected fellowship of the [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]] in 2003<ref name="NAAS Fellows" /> and of the Indian National Science Academy and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] in 2007.<ref name="Fellow profile" /> He has delivered award orations such as the G. V. Joshi Memorial lecture of the Indian Society of Plant Physiology (2011) and the research scholarships/fellowships he has held included the National Scholarship of the [[University Grants Commission of India]], two fellowships from Rockefeller Foundation, an Indo-Australia visiting fellowship (2013), CIDA/NSERC research associateship of the [[Canadian International Development Agency]] and the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the [[Science and Engineering Research Board]] twice; the first in 2011 and the second in 2015 with tenure of the fellowship running until 2020.<ref name="University Faculty Details Page on DU Web-site" /><ref name="Indian fellow" />

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal |last1=Singh |first1=Upasana |last2=Deb |first2=Debadutta |last3=Singh |first3=Amanjot |last4=Grover |first4=Anil |date=2011-01-26 |title=Glycine-rich RNA binding protein of Oryza sativa inhibits growth of M15 E. coli cells |journal=BMC Research Notes |volume=4 |pages=18 |doi=10.1186/1756-0500-4-18 |pmid=21269485 |issn=1756-0500|pmc=3040685 }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Singh |first1=Amanjot |last2=Singh |first2=Upasana |last3=Mittal |first3=Dheeraj |last4=Grover |first4=Anil |date=2010-02-08 |title=Genome-wide analysis of rice ClpB/HSP100, ClpC and ClpD genes |journal=BMC Genomics |volume=11 |pages=95 |doi=10.1186/1471-2164-11-95 |pmid=20141629 |issn=1471-2164|pmc=2829514 }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Singh |first1=Amanjot |last2=Sahi |first2=Chandan |last3=Grover |first3=Anil |title=Chymotrypsin protease inhibitor gene family in rice: Genomic organization and evidence for the presence of a bidirectional promoter shared between two chymotrypsin protease inhibitor genes |journal=Gene |language=en |volume=428 |issue=1–2 |pages=9–19 |doi=10.1016/j.gene.2008.09.028|pmid=18952157 |year=2009 }}

== See also ==
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* [[Reactive oxygen species]]
* [[Regulation of gene expression]]
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{{portal|India|Biology}}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/anilgroverlab/home |title=Anil Grover Lab |date=2017-12-06 |website=sites.google.com |access-date=2017-12-06 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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