Dr. Monu Kumar

Dr. Monu Kumar
Senior Scientist, Office In-charge

Division/RS/Unit

ICAR-NBPGR RS, Ranchi

Contact

Email:monu.kumar@icar.org.in; nbpgr.ranchi@gmail.com

Qualification

DegreeDisciplineYear
B.Sc.Agriculture2010
M.Sc.Genetitcs2012
Ph.D.Genetics & Plant Breeding2022

SPECIALIZATION
Genetics & Plant Breeding

Salient Achievements

  • Evaluated wheat genotypes for quality, abiotic stress tolerance and cropping system and, identified novel genomic regions/ genes for heat tolerance and quality traits.
  • Characterized pigeonpea germplasm and advanced breeding lines under rainfed conditions at ICAR-IARI Jharkhand.
  • Registered Corchorus olitorius genotype OMU 018 (INGR17027) having high number of fibre cells/bundle.
  • Contributed in production, processing and distribution of breeder seed of jute as per DAC indent and maintenance breeding at ICAR-CRIJAF, Regional station, CSRSJAF, Bud Bud, W.B.
  • Developed a new Ramie field gene bank at ICAR-CRIJAF, Regional station, RRS, Sorbhog, Assam.
  • Contributed as teaching faculty of the Graduate School, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi at ICAR-IARI Jharkhand hub.

Awards/Honours

  • Best paper presentation award in 1st International Symposium on “Cereal for Food Security and Climate Resilience” organized by ICAR-IIWBR, Karnal during January 18-20, 2022.
  • Best oral presentation award for paper entitled “An efficient and precise method for grain characterization of wheat RILs population using grain scan software” in 9th National Seed Congress 2018-19 held at BHU, Varanasi during February 19-21, 2019.
  • Best poster presentation award in National Seminar on Plant Genetic Research for Eastern and North-eastern India held at ICAR RC for NEH Region, Meghalaya organized by Indian Society of Genetics & Plant Breeding during May 11-12, 2012.

Recent Publications Research Papers

  • Ashutosh, V. K. Mishra, K. Srivastava, M. Kumar & P. Singh. 2025, Marker-assisted foreground pyramiding of genes/QTL’s for grain quality and rust resistance genes in most popular wheat cv., HUW234 of Eastern Gangetic plains of India. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s 13562-025-00957-w
  • Kumar M., Mishra V. K., Chand R., Sharma S., Kumar U., Jaiswal J. P., Choudhary M., Mahato A., Ashutosh, Singh P. and Joshi A. K. 2023, NDVI and grain fill duration are important to be considered in breeding for terminal heat stress tolerance in wheat. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 209, 489–501.
  • Krishnappa G., Khan H., Krishna, H., Devate N. B., Kumar S., Mishra C. N., Parkash O., Kumar S., Kumar M., Mamrutha, H. M., Singh G. P. and Singh G. 2023, Genome-Wide Association Study for Grain Protein, Thousand Kernel Weight, and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Genes, 14(3), 637.
  • Khan H., Krishnappa G., Kumar S., Mishra C. N., Krishna H., Devate N. B., Rathan N. D., Parkash O., Yadav S. S., Srivastava P., Biradar S., Kumar M. and Singh G. P. 2022, Genome-wide association study for grain yield and component traits in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Front. Genet., 13: 982589.
  • Devate N. B., Krishna H., Parmeshwarappa S. K. V., Manjunath K. K., Chauhan D., Singh S., Singh J. B., Kumar M., Patil R., Khan H., Jain N., Singh G. P. and Singh P. K. 2022, Genome-wide association mapping for component traits of drought and heat tolerance in wheat. Front Plant Sci., 13: 943033.
  • Krishnappa G., Khan H, Krishna H., Kumar S., Mishra C. N., Parkash O., Devate N. B., Nepolean T., Rathan N. D., Mamrutha H. M., Srivastava P., Biradar S., Uday G., Kumar M., Singh G. and Singh G. P. 2022    Genetic dissection of grain iron and zinc, and thousand kernel weight in wheat (Triticum aestivum) using genome-wide association study. Sci. Rep., 12 (1): 12444.
  • Meena V. K., Sharma R. K., Chand S., Kumar M., Kumar N., Jain N., and Singh A. 2022, Elucidating molecular diversity in spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L. em. Thell.) under terminal heat stress environment using morpho-physiological traits and SSR markers. Indian J. Genet. Plant Breed., 82 (1): 47-55.

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