Thesis Submitted to the Jamia Hamdard

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Markers in Sesame to Study Functional Polymorphism of Selected Economically Important Traits

Thesis Submitted to the Jamia Hamdard For the Award of the Degree of

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Biotechnology

Nupur Mondal

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF SCIENCE JAMIA HAMDARD (HAMDARD UNIVERSITY) NEW DELHI-110062, INDIA 2012 CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the thesis entitled “Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Markers in Sesame to Study Functional Polymorphism of Selected Economically Important Traits” submitted to the Faculty of Science, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, in fulfilment of the requirements for the award of degree for Doctor of Philosophy in Biotechnology, embodies the original research work carried out by Ms. Nupur Mondal. The work has been completed at Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, India under our supervision and has not been submitted in part or full for any degree or diploma of this or any other University.

It is further certified that the scholar fulfills all the requirements as laid down by the University for the purpose of submission of Ph.D. thesis.

Signature of Co-supervisor Signature of Supervisor Dr K.V. Bhat Prof. P. S. SRIVASTAVA Principal Scientist Department of Biotechnology NRC on DNA Fingerprinting Jamia Hamdard N.B.P.G.R. New Delhi- 110 062 New Delhi- 110 012

Forwarded by

Signature of the Head of the Department

Signature of the Dean of Faculty

i DECLARATION

The research work entitled “Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Markers in Sesame to Study Functional Polymorphism of Selected Economically Important Traits” embodies the results of original research work carried out by me. The work has been carried out at Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University). This work has not been submitted in part or partial fulfillment for any other degree of this or any other university.

Nupur Mondal Department of Biotechnology Jamia Hamdard New Delhi, India-110062

ii COPYRIGHT

The copyright of the work presented in this thesis rests with the researchers (Nupur Mondal, Dr. K.V. Bhat and Prof. P. S. Srivastava). No part of this thesis can be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the copyright holders. The thesis does not contain, without explicit acknowledgement, any work, published or unpublished, of any other person.

Signature of Co-supervisor Signature of Supervisor Dr. K.V.Bhat Prof. P. S. Srivastava

Signature of Candidate Nupur Mondal