Dr.Nagendra Kumar Singh

Dr. Nagendra Kumar Singh

National Professor, National Research Centre On Plant BioTechnology, Dehli

Nagendra Kumar Singh is an Indian agricultural scientist. He is a National Professor (Dr. B.P.Pal Chair) under ICAR at National Research Centre for Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He is known for his research in the area of plant genomics and biotechnology, particularly for his contribution in the decoding of rice, tomato and pigeonpea genomes and understanding of wheat seed storage proteins and their effect on wheat quality. He has also made significant advances in comparative analysis of rice and wheat genomes and mapping of genes for salt tolerance and basmati quality traits in rice.

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Research Overview

Wild Rice

Conservation of wild rice germplasm and utilization
for rice breeding.

Cultivated Rice

Mapping of genes for yield, quality
and stress tolerance.

Wheat

Genome sequencing and mapping of genes for yield,
quality and drought tolerance.

Tomato

Genome sequencing, structural, functional
and comparative genomics .

Mango

Decoding and trade mapping of
quality trait.

Pigeon Pea

Mapping genes for yield, quality and disease
resistance traits.

Scientific Contribution

" Decoded the genomes of rice (chromosome 11), tomato (chromosome 5) and wheat (chromosome 2A),in partnership with international consortia. The high quality reference genomes are in the public domain and used extensively by researchers worldwide for gene discovery and marker development."
" Produced the first draft of pigeon pea genome, first eukaryotic genome sequenced entirely in India and first pulse crop genome sequenced globally."
" Developed methods for analysis of wheat low molecular weight glutenin subunits, genetically mapped these and showed their effect on bread-making quality of wheat. The methods are used extensively worldwide."
" Discovered and characterized in detail at the molecular level a new class of wheat endosperm protein, and named it “Triticin”. It is a legumin-like seed storage protein in wheat with superior nutritional quality than."
" LMapped number of genes/QTLs for yield, abiotic stress tolerance and grain quality traits in rice, wheat and pigeonpea, and coordinated efforts to transfer major QTLs for drought, submergence and salinity inn rice."

Publications & Articles

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 5,

11600 doi:10.1038/srep11600

Single-Copy Gene Based 50 K SNP Chip for Genetic Studies and Molecular Breeding in Rice.

PLANT BIOCHEM & BIOTECH

24 (3):324-330

Haplotype Diversity and Association Analysis of SNAC1 Gene in Wild Rice Germplasm.

AGRICULTURE RESEARCH

4 (2): 139–151 DOI 10.1007/s40003-015-0150-1

Effect of Allelic Variation in Triticin on Bread- and Chapati-Making Qualities of Wheat (Triticum aestivum).

PLANT CELL REPORTS

34 (6) OsDREB1F

Natural Allelic Diversity in OsDREB1F Gene in the Indian Wild Rice Germplasm Led to Ascertain its Association With Drought Tolerance.

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