Dr. N. Sivaraj

Dr. N. Sivaraj
Principal Scientist & Officer-in-Charge

Division/RS/Unit

Regional Station, Hyderabad

Contact

Office: 040-24015478 Extn 201

E-Mail:N.Sivaraj@icar.gov.in

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B-pdGJoAAAAJ&hl=en

Qualification

Degree Discipline Year
M.Sc.Botany1985
Ph.D.Botany1991
Post DoctorateBotany 1993 

SPECIALIZATION

Salient Achievements

  • Planned, coordinated, and led as Team Leader, forty-two (42) germplasm collection missions in peninsular India covering South East Coastal Zone, parts of Eastern/Western Ghats: 5,390 accessions of valuable genetic resources comprising cereals, millets, pulses, vegetables, medicinal plants, fibres, fruit crops were collected. A representation of these accessions are conserved and maintained in the National Gene Bank, New Delhi for posterity.
  • Co-developed and registered with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research 16 Promising Genetic Stocks with unique traits in Bottle gourd, Linseed, Chilli, Dolichos bean, Cowpea, Jatropha etc.
  • Contributed to the characterization and evaluation of agri-horticultural crops comprising brinjal (> 1200 accessions), Tomato (360 accessions), millets (125 accessions), pulses, oilseeds (300 accessions) and Jack bean among others; promising lines were identified for further utilization. 14 crop germplasm field days were organized to enable assessment by researchers/breeders to promote their use. Distributed and shared over 2000 accessions of mandated germplasm in agri-horticultural crops to collaborators in South India for advanced research/breeding. Associated with the organisation of grassroots level PGR Awareness programmes and other training programmes/ Biodiversity fairs/exhibition organised by the station for the conservation Agri-biodiversity of the region.
  • Positively impacted the adoption of new concepts in plant genetic resources management in India; successfully implemented Geographical Information System (GIS) – DIVA-GIS, FloraMap and others for diversity analysis and mapping of crop genetic resources. Effectively prepared Ecological niche models for Banana including North East Region Banana varieties of India, wild relative of crops and others.Using tools of Predictive Analytics contributed to preparation of seed atlases and cultivation frameworks for plant genetic resources in the climate change regime.
  • PGR publications (328): Research Papers (151), Book Chapters (50), Conference Abstracts (98), Books (5) and other publications (24)

Awards/Honours

  • Nuffic Fellowship, The Netherlands, 2007
  • Visiting Researcher, CIAT, Colombia, 2003.
  • Fellow, Indian Society of Oilseeds Research, Hyderabad.
  • Fellow, Indian Society of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.
  • Life Time Fellow, Association for Advancement of Biodiversity Science, Dharwad.
  • Biodiversity conserver Award-2023 by Andhra Pradesh State Biodiversity Board.
  • Prof SK Vasal Award for utilization of PGR by ISPGR, New Delhi-2022.
  • Talented Scientist Award by the International Seminar on Medicinal Plants and Herbal Products 2010, Tirupati.
  • Renowned Biodiversity Science Award-2015. AABS, Dharwad
  • Rashtriya Gaurav Award by India International Friendship Society-2016, New Delhi.
  • Award for Excellence in Research by Education Expo TV (EET CRS)-2016, Mumbai.
  • Best Scientist Award in Botany – 2016,
  • Awarded by Pearl Foundation Madurai.
  • Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR, New Delhi.
  • Distinguished Scientist Award- by Venus International Foundation, Chennai.
  • Research Excellence Award by Institute of Scholars, Bengaluru, 2020.
  • Observer, Sixth meeting of the Conference of Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), Canada.
  • Observer, Conference of Parties XI, Convention on Biological Diversity, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), Canada.
  • Best Poster Award, First International Agrobiodiversity Congress, New Delhi-2016.

Recent Publications

  • N.Sivaraj, Pandravada SR, Kamala V, Anitha K, Elangovan M, and Rajasekaran C (2023) Are landraces Sorghum climate resilient? A case study from Telangana, India. In: Dutta SK, Jayanta Deka, Ranjan Das, Anjan K Sarma, Rajasekaran C (Eds.) Climate Change: Conservation, Biodiversity & Sustainability. College of Agriculture, Jorhat, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat-785 013, Assam, India. PP. 160-178.
  • N. Sivaraj et al. (2023). Agri-horticultural crop genetic resources of Andhra Pradesh: A checklist. ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Regional Station, Hyderabad 62pp. (ISBN 978-81-963685-0-0)
  • N.Sivaraj, S.R. Pandravada, Anuradha Agrawal, V, Kamala, V. Celia chalam and K. Anitha (2022). Application of Geographical Information System for PGR Management. Indian J. Plant Genet. Resour. 35(3): 136–140.
  • N. Sivaraj, S. R. Pandravada, Kamala Venkateswaran, Siva Ramamoorthy, and K. Anitha (2022). Plant Genetic Resources Management in the Framework of Policy Developments. In: Siva Ramamoorthy, Inocencio Jr. Buot and Rajasekaran Chandrasekaran (Editors) Plant Genetic Resources, Inventory, Collection and Conservation. Springer, Singapore. Pp. 389-410.
  • N.Sivaraj and Anitha Kodaru (2022) In Pursuit of Plant Genetic Resources Management in Telangana. Agriculture Today, Telagana special edition (June 2022) pp 54-57.
  • S.R. Pandravada, N. Sivaraj, V. Kamala and B. Sarath Babu (2022) Agrobiodiversity of Telangana: A treatise on genetic resources of agri-horticultural crops. ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Regional Station, Hyderabad, Telangana x+382 pp. (ISBN 978-93-5407-286-4)
  • N. Sivaraj et al. (2019). Italian millet and Little millet landraces of North Coastal Andhra Pradesh, India ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Regional Station, Hyderabad, India (ISBN 978-93-5361-347-1)

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