Dr. Dinesh Prasad Semwal

Dr. Dinesh Prasad Semwal
Principal Scientist

Division/RS/Unit

Division of Plant Exploration and Germplasm Collection

Contact

Off.-011-25802885
Email-dinesh.semwal(AT)icar.gov.in, dinusem(AT)gmail.com

Qualification

Degree

Discipline

Year

M. Sc.

Botany

1992

Ph. D.

Botany

1998

Post Graduate Diploma

Remote Sensing

1996

 

SPECIALIZATION

Economic Botany

Salient Achievements

Infrastructure/Facility Creation: Established Geoinformatics laboratory in the Division of Plant Exploration and Germplasm Collection, for geo-referencing, diversity mapping and identifying gaps in collections (2012).

Germplasm Collections: 30 explorations conducted in diversity rich areas of 16 states including one in Natural Calamity affected areas of Uttarakhand (2013). Collected over 1500 accessions mainly crop landraces, trait-specific, potential including several unique germplasm and >200 crop wild relatives.

Gap Analysis study completed

Geo-referencing and mapping of diversity vis-à-vis germplasm collected and conserved has been completed in 27 crops (rice, wheat, maize, chickpea, pigeonpea, Sesamum, pearl millet, sorghum, fox-tail milllet, finger milllet, proso milllet, little milllet, kodo millet, barnyard millet, black gram, mothbean, adjuki bean, green gram, cowpea, ricebean, kidney bean, horsegram, tomato, brinjal, Allium, banana, mango) and accordingly gap areas were identified up to district/taluk level.

PGR Education: Taught two course as Course Leader and two courses as faculty Division of Plant genetic resources of ICAR-IARI, New Delhi and:  

Currently guiding two Ph.D. Students as Chairman of research advisory committee and guided one Ph.D. and two M.Sc students as Chairman

Training Organized

  1. Management of Plant genetic Resources & Herbarium Management at NBPGR, New Delhi, For Scientists of Iraq (2019), Organizer/Resource person (Govt. of Iraq funded).
  2. Crop Wild Relatives: Identification Collecting and Utilization at ICAR-NBPGR (2015), Convener/Resource person (ICAR funded).

Awards/Honours

  • SK Seth prize 2005 (FRI, Dehradun)- Awarded in 2007 by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun for Best research paper published in the Journal The Indian Forester in the category of Ecology and Environment.
  • Awarded DST Young Scientist fellowship (2003) by Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi

Recent Publications

  1. Francis, Aleena; Singh, Nagendra ; Singh, Mohar ; Sharma, Paras; Gayacharan, Gayacharan; Kumar, Durgesh; Basu, Udita; Bajaj, Deepak; Varshney, Nidhi ; Joshi, Dinesh; DP Semwal,; Tyagi, Vandana; Wankhede, Dharma Prakash; Bharadwaj, Rakesh; Singh, Amit; Parida, Swarup; Chattopadhyay, Debasis (2023) The ricebean genome provides insight into Vigna genome evolution and facilitates genetic enhancement. Plant Biotechnology Journal (21): 1522–1524 doi: 10.1111 (IF:14.1)
  2. Kuldeep Tripathi, Jyoti Kumari, Padmawati G. Gore, DC Mishra, AK Singh, GP Mishra, Gayacharan, HK Dikshit, Neeta Singh, DP Semwal, R Mehra, R Bhardwaj, R. Bansal, JC Rana, Ashok Kumar, V Gupta, Kuldeep Singh and A. Sarker (2021) Agro-morphological Characterization of Lentil Germplasm of Indian national Genebank and Development of a Core Set for Efficient Utilization in Lentil Improvement Programs. Frontiers in Plant Sciences. doi: 3389/fpls.2021.751429 (IF:6.5)
  3. Semwal DP, Soyimchiten, Puran Chandra, RS Rathi, KM Rai, Mamta Arya, SP Ahlawat and PK Singh (2024) Diversity distribution analysis of guava (Psidium guajava) population in cultivated and wild habitats in the Mid-hills of Uttarakhand. Agriculture, 14 (4): 575. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14040575 (IF:3.6)
  4. Debjani Roy Choudhury, Ramesh Kumar, Avantika Maurya, DP Semwal,
    RS Rathi, SP Ahlawat, RK Gautam, A.K. Trivedi, S K Bishnoi, Kuldeep Singh, NK Singh, Rakesh Singh (2023) SSR and SNP marker-based investigation of Indian rice landraces in relation to their genetic diversity, population structure and geographical isolation. Agriculture, 13 (4): 823. org/10.3390/agriculture13040823(IF:3.6)
  5. Thendral US, DP Semwal, Veena Gupta, S. Archak, Kuldeep Tripathi (2023) Spatial distribution, diversity mapping and gap analysis of wild Vigna species conserved in Indian National Genebank (INGB). Diversity 15(4): Doi-10.3390/d15040552 (IF:2.4)
  6. Semwal DP, Anjula Pandey, PG Gore, SP Ahlawat, SK Yadav and Anil Kumar (2021) Habitat prediction mapping using BioClim model for prioritizing germplasm of an aquatic cash crop ‘makhana’ (Euryale ferox ) for collection and conservation in India. Genet. Resour. Crop Evol. 68: 3445–3456. (IF:2.0)
  7. Mohapatra K.P., Rajneesh Mahajan, Sapna Langyan, Saurabh Kumar1, Suresh Sarkar, DP Semwal, Soyimchiten, Puran Chandra (2023) Indian horse chestnut [Aesculus indica (Wall.ex Cambress.) Hook. Hippocastanaceae]: a wild forest tree used for food and medicine by the tribes of Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, India” Resour. Crop Evo. doi.org/10.1007/s10722-022-01455-x. (IF:2.0)
  8. Pamarthi RK, Anjula Pandey, S. Nagaraju, DP Semwal, KC Bhatt and SP Ahlawat (2022) “Kukkavaminta” [Arivela viscosa(L.) Raf. (Cleomaceae)]: a less-known “seasoning spice” from West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India”  Resour. Crop Evo. doi.org/10.1007/s10722-022-01455-x. (IF:2.0)
  9. Gautam RK, Sapna Langyan, S Vimla Devi, Rakesh Singh, P. Semwal, Shariq Ali, G.S. Mangat, Sutapa Sarkar, Torit Baran Bagchi, Somnath Roy, P. Senguttuvel, S. Bhuvaneshwari, S. Chetia, Kuldeep Tripathi, G.D. Harish, Ashok Kumar and Kuldeep Singh (2022) Genetic Resources of sticky rice in india:  Status and prospects. Genet. Resour. Crop Evo. 70(4): 1-12 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-022-01479-3 (IF:2.0)
  10. Kuldeep Tripathi, TV Prasad, R Bhardwaj, SK Jha, DP Semwal, PG Gore, PK Sharma and S Bhalla (2020) Evaluation of diverse germplasm of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] against bruchid [Callosobruchus maculatus (Fab.)] and correlation with physical and biochemical parameters of seed. Plant Genetic Resources: Characterization and Utilization 18(3): 120–129. (IF:1.1)
  11. Tripathi Kuldeep, Raghunath Sadhukhan, Arpita Das, Kalyan Jana, DP Semwal, Ashok Kumar, A. Sarker and SP Ahlawat (2022) Khesari (Lathyrus sativus) an ancient legume for future gain: an expedition collection from parts of West Bengal State of Eastern India. Ind. J. Trad. Knowledge 21(2): 395-403. (IF:1.0)
  12. Kuldeep Tripathi, PG Gore, SP Ahlawat, V Tyagi, DP Semwal, NK Gautam, JC Rana and A Kumar (2019) Cowpea genetic resources and its utilization: Indian perspective – A review. Legume Research, 42(3): 439-448. (IF:-0.8)

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