Developed neutral and trait specific molecular markers in horticultural crops including bitter gourd, brinjal, chilli, Allium sps, cucumis, saffron, citrus, mungbean and buckwheat. Presently involved in transcriptome analysis for fruit and quality traits in brinjal and bittergourd and development of genomic resources in snakegourd and okra; whole genome sequencing of pepper and organelle genome sequencing of Vigna species using the next generation sequencing technologies