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Dr. Amit Kumar Singh
Designation:
Senior Scientist
     
Division/RS/Unit:
Division of Genomic Resources
     
Discipline:
Biotechnology (Agri. Sciences)
Contact:
+91 9968449805
     
E-Mail:
Amit.Singh5(AT)icar.gov.in, amit_singh79(AT)yahoo.com
     
Personal Webpage:
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=1mRMTZ0AAAAJ&hl=en
     
Salient Achievements:
     
Awards/Honours:

  • Merit Scholarship during graduation

  • Kirtkar Memorial Gold Medal for securing first position in graduation 

  • Qualified CSIR-JRF 2002  and 2003

  • Qualified ICMR-JRF 2002

  • Senior Research Scholarship for Ph. D from IARI, New Delhi

  • Awarded Endevour Research Fellowship-2015 by Government of Australia

  • Dr. R. S. Paroda, Young Scientist Award-2018
     
Recent Publications Research Papers
1.  Chaurasia S, Singh AK*, Kumar A, Songachan LS, Yadav MC, Kumar S, Kumari J, Bansal R, Sharma PC, Singh K (2021). Genome-wide association mapping reveals key genomic regions for physiological and yield-related traits under salinity stress in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)., Genomics, 113: 
2.  Verma SK, Mittal S, Gayacharan, Wankhede DP, Parida SK, Chattopadhyay D, Prasad G, Mishra DC, Joshi DC, Singh M, Singh K and Singh AK* (2021). 

Transcriptome analysis reveals key pathways and candidate genes controlling seed development and size in ricebean (Vigna umbellata)

, Frontiers in Genetics, 12: 2830
3.  Singh AK*, Singh N, Kumar S, Kumari J, Singh R, Gaba S, Yadav MC, Grover M, Chaurasia S, Kumar R (2020). Identification and evolutionary analysis of polycistronic miRNA clusters in domesticated and wild wheat, Genomics, 112: 
4.  Rani K, Raghu BR, Jha SK, Agarwal P, Mallick N, Niranjana M, Sharma JB, Singh AK, Sharma NK, Rajkumar S, Tomar SMS, Vinod (2020). A novel leaf rust resistance gene introgrressed from Aegilops markgrafii maps on chromosome 2AS of wheat, Theor Appl Genet, 56: 
5.  Chaurasia S, Singh AK*,Songachan, LS, Sharma AD, Bhardwaj R, Singh K (2020). Multi-locus genome-wide association studies reveal novel genomic regions associated with vegetative stage salt tolerance in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) , Genomics, 16: 
6.  Nirmal RC*, Singh AK*, Furtado,A, Henry RJ (2019). Analysis of the expression of transportation factor and other genes associates with aleurone development in wheat endosperm, Journal of Cereal Science, 85: 62-69 (Equal contribution)
7.  Singh AK, Furtado A, Marta B, Mishra, NS, Henry RJ (2018). Phylogeny and molecular evolution of miR820 and miR396 microRNA families in Oryza AA genomes, Tropical Plant Biology, 11: 1-16
8.  Singh AK, S Chaurasia, S Kumar, R Singh, J Kumari, MC Yadav, N Singh, S Gaba and SR Jacob (2018). Identification, analysis and development of salt responsive candidate gene based SSR markers in wheat, BMC Plant Biology, 18(249): 1-15
9.  Singh AK, Singh R, Rajkumar S, Kumar R, Wankhede DP (2016). Molecular approaches to understand nutritional potential of coarse cereals, Current Genomics, 17: 177-192
10.  Singh AK, MK Rana, S Singh, S Kumar, R Kumar and R Singh (2014). CAAT Box Derived Polymorphism (CBDP): A Novel Promoter - Targeted Molecular Marker Technique for Plants, Journal Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 23: 175-183
     
 
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Last Updated : 03/09/2022