Dr. Mamta Arya

Dr. Mamta Arya
Senior Scientist

Division/RS/Unit

ICAR-NBPGR RS, Bhowali

Contact

Off.-+91 9685515598
Email- Mamta.Arya(AT)icar.gov.in, mamta.gpb(AT)gmail.com

Qualification

Degree Discipline Year
M.Sc. Ag. Genetics & Plant Breeding 2007
Ph.D. Genetics & Plant Breeding 2011

SPECIALIZATION
Genetics & Plant Breeding

Salient Achievements

  • Total 6955 germplasm accessions of various Rabi and Kharif crops wheat, barley, paddy, legumes, spices, pseudocereals, maize, millets, oilseeds etc were characterized and rejuvenated for MTS conservation.
  • Named landraces of paddy (11), wheat (36), and barley (18) have been collected, characterized and evaluated for unique traits and correlation was established with the name and corresponding trait of these landraces.
  • 80 accessions of 15 crops comprising wheat, barley, coriander, fenugreek, cumin, brassica, horsegram, barnyard millet, amaranths, buckwheat, soybean, French bean, fennel, chilli and prosomillet were collected during an exploration trip to high altitudes of Urgam and Niti Valleys of Chamoli district Uttarakhand.
  • Quality analysis of 20 landraces of paddy has been done for starch, amylose, protein and sugars and nutritionally promising landraces were identified (Gita dhan, Kawthuni, Lambgudi).
  • Superior germplasm accessions of soybean for high iron content (IC 262059), high total anti-oxidant and phenols (IC 574366) and high flavonoids content (IC 393217) have been identified.
  • Total 766 accessions/ varieties have been tested in farmers field through 47 mother and 211 baby (crowdsourcing) trials in three locations viz,. Tarikhet block (Almora), Someshwar Valley (Almora) and Niti Valley (Chamoli).

Awards/Honours

Recent Publications Research Papers

  1. PS Mehta, Mamta Arya, Ranjana Singh, Rajni Rawat, IS Bisht. 2019. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Landrace Diversity in Traditional Production Landscapes of Uttarakhand Himalaya in North-Western India. Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources, 32(2): 181-191.
  2. Sanjay Gupta, Giriraj Kumawat, Soniya Yadav, Rachana Tripathi, Nisha Agrawal, Shivakumar Maranna, Gyanesh K. Satpute, Gireesh Channappa, Mamta Arya, Sayed M. Husain, Virender S. Bhatia, Nanita Devi, Philips Varghese, Shivaji P. Mahatre, Kamendra Singh, A. N. Shrivastav, Sanjay Pandey and Yogendra Mohan (2021). Identification and characterization of a novel long juvenile resource AGS 25. Genet Resour Crop Evol (2021) 68:1149–1163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-020-01055-7.
  3. John, Racheal; Bhardwaj, Rakesh; Jeyaseelan, Christine; Bollinedi, Haritha; Singh, Neha; Harish, GD; Singh, Rakesh; Nath, Dhrub Jyoti; Arya, Mamta; Sharma, Deepak;. (2022). Germplasm variability-assisted near infrared reflectance spectroscopy chemometrics to develop multi-trait robust prediction models in rice. Frontiers in Nutrition.
  4. Malhotra, Nikhil; Sharma, Paras; Sood, Hemant; Chandora, Rahul; Arya, Mamta; Rana, Jai Chand; Singh, Mohar. (2022). Agro-morphological characterization and nutritional profiling of traditional Himalayan crop landraces for their promotion toward mainstream agriculture. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13.
  5. Laxmisha, KM; Semwal, Dinesh Prasad; Gupta, Veena; Katral, Ashvin kumar; Bisht, IS; Mehta, PS; Arya, Mamta; Bhardwaj, Rakesh; Bhatt, KC. (2022). Nutritional profiling and GIS-based grid mapping of Job’s tears (Coix lacryma-jobi L.) germplasm. Applied Food Research: 2(2).
  6. Singh, R., Arya, M., Verma, V.C. et al. (2023) Genetic Diversity and Food Value of Black Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) in Uttarakhand Hills, North-Western India. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., India, Sect. B Biol. Sci. 93, 743–753. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40011-023-01446-7.
  7. Semwal, D.P.; Longkumar, S.; Chandra, P.; Rathi, R.S.; Rai, K.M.; Arya, M.; Ahlawat, S.P.; Singh, P.K. (2024) Diversity Distribution Analysis of Guava (Psidium guajava) Populations in Cultivated and Wild Habitats in the Mid-Hills of Uttarakhand, India. Agriculture, 14, 575.

Book Chapters:

  1. Arya, M., A. Bhartiya, J.P. Aditya, G.K. Satpute and M. Ratnaparkhe (2019) Unraveling the Complex Networks involved in Plant Stress Tolerance through Metabolomic. In: Recent Approaches in Omics for Plant Resilience to Climate Change. Springer, Cham. 313-329.
  2. Gyanesh Kumar Satpute, Milind B. Ratnaparkhe, Subhash Chandra, Viraj Gangadhar Kamble, Rucha Kavishwar, Ajay Kumar Singh, Sanjay Gupta, Ramgopal Devdas, Mamta Arya, Maharaj Singh, Mahaveer Prasad Sharma, Giriraj Kumawat, M. Shivakumar, Vennampally Nataraj, Mrinal K. Kuchlan, Vangala Rajesh, Manoj Kumar Srivastava, Annapurna Chitikineni, Rajeev K. Varshney, and Henry T. Nguyen (2020) Breeding and Molecular Approaches for Evolving Drought-Tolerant Soybeans. In: Plant Stress Biology: Strategies and Trends. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. ISBN 978-981-15-9379-6 ISBN 978-981-15-9380-2.
  3. आर्य ममता और पी.एस. मेहता . 2020. उत्तराखंड में पारंपरिक फसल विविधता एवं इसका संरक्षण. In: पर्वतीय क्षेत्रों की पारंपरिक फसलों का उन्नत उत्पादन एवं कटाई उपरांत प्रसंस्करण तकनीकी द्वारा आय सृजन. ICAR-VPKAS Almora, pp111

Disclaimer

The contents of this page are personal information/views of the staff. NBPGR is neither responsible for the contents or reliability nor endorses the views expressed within them.

Scroll to Top