Dr. Madan Lal is presently working as a Scientific Officer in Tissue Culture Division. U.P.C.S.R., Shahjahanpur, India. After post graduation in Botany in 1982, he worked for his Ph.D with Professor (Late) V.S. Jaiswal, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He has made several contributions on in vitro culture of sugarcane. He has emphasized on sugarcane improvement through somaclonal variation and rapid multiplication of newly released varieties of sugarcane through in vitro micropropagated. He has also worked on some biochemical and molecular changes taking place during in vitro morphogenesis in sugarcane. He has developed low cost protocols for efficient micropropogation of several varieties of sugarcane for seed purposes. He has conducted numerous field demonstrations, using micropropagated plantlets of sugarcane, at the farms of cane growers and sugar factories of U.P. and motivated them to adopt the micropropagated seed material. He has successfully encapsulated the somatic embroys and young meristems of sugarcane varieties and obtained germination of artificial seeds in vitro. Dr. Lal has published numerous research papers in Indian and International journals.
