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B.R. Raghu

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Designation: 
Scientist (Plant Breeding)
Division/Section: 
Division of Vegetable Crops
Specialisation: 
Genetics and Plant Breeding
Qualification: 
Ph.D.
Research Accomplishments: 

(During the Period of 2019-2023) 

  1. Collection and conservation of more than 250 curry leaf germplasm in field gene bank.
  2. Development of DUS testing guidelines for Dolichos bean and notified by PPV & FRA.                                                               
  3. Charecterization curry leaf germplasm for essential oil yield and composition and mineral nutrients contents.
  4. Charecterization onion germplasm for Anthracnose-twister complex and identification of tolarent sources.
  5. Nomination of pole type photo-insensitive dolichos bean varieties for state varietal trials and after 3 years of testing, identify them for release to state of Karnataka in SVEC meeting.
Varieties / Technologies Developed: 

 

  1. Developed and notified 8 varieties in wheat namely, VL Gehun 953, VL Gehun 967, VL Gehun 3004, VL Gehun 2014, VL Gehun 2015, VL Gehun 2028, VL Gehun 3010, VL Gehun 2041 and released for Northern Hills zone of India. 
  2. Developed and notified 1 variety Barley VLB 130 and released for Northern Hills zone of India.
  3. Developed a pole type rust resistant French bean variety Arka Sukomal suitable for vegetable purposes.
  4. Developed high yielding photo insensitive pole type Dolichos varieties for vegetable purposes namely, Arka Krishna, Arka Vistar, Arka Pradhan suitable for Southern Indian states.
  5. Developed high yielding and protein rich pole type Dolichos varieties for vegetable purposes namely, Arka Arka Neelachal Pushti suitable for Odisha state.                                                                                                                         
  6. Developed a genetic stock with novel source of leaf rust resistant gene in wheat namely wheat ER9-700 (INGR21018) and registered with ICAR-NBPGR.

 

Publications: 

(Best 10/High Impact) 

  1. K. Rani, B. R. Raghu, S. K. Jha, Priyanka Agarwal, Niharika Mallick, M. Niranjana, J. B. Sharma, A. K. Singh, N. K. Sharma, S. Rajkumar, S. M. S. Tomar, Vinod. (2020). A novel leaf rust resistance gene introgressed from Aegilops markgrafii maps on chromosome arm 2AS of wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 133:2685–2694.
  2. Raghu, B.R. (2020). Diversity and Distribution of Curry Leaf in India. Journal of Horticultural Sciences 15(1): 1-8.
  3. Raghu, B. R., R. S. Raje, N. K. Singh, K. B. Saxena, D. A. Chauhan, S. A. Acharya, A. N. Patil, J. B. Patil, K. B. Wanzari and Khare, D. (2019). EST-SSR based Genetic Divergence and Prediction of Heterotic Combinations of Hybrid Parents in Pigeonpea. Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 8(02): 2314-2325.
  4. Raghu, B.R., Gangwar, O.P., Bhardwaj, S.C., and Jain, S.K. (2018). Seedling and adult plant resistance to stripe rust in Uttarakhand landraces of wheat. Applied Biological Research 20(3): 291-301.
  5. Raghu, B.R., Gangwar, O.P., Bhardwaj, S.C. and Mishra, K.K. (2020). Stripe rust resistance in wheat germplasm of north-western Himalayan hills. Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences 8(2): 125-133.
  6. Meenu Kumari, P. Naresha, G.C. Acharyaa, K. Laxminarayana, H.S. Singh, B.R. Raghu, T.S. Aghora. (2022). VL Gehun 967: Nutritional diversity of Indian lablab bean (Lablab purpureus L. Sweet): An approach towards biofortification.  South African Journal of Botany 149: 189-195.
  7. Raghu, B.R., Samuel, D.K., Mohan N. and Aghora T. S. (2018). Dolichos bean: an underutilized and unexplored crop with immense potential. International Journal of Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Research 05 (12): 4338-4341
  8. Arun Kumar R, L. Kant, R.S. Pal, J. Stanley, A. Sharma, Raghu B.R., S.C. Panday And J.C. Bhatt. (2019) Climate resilient wheat production under changing climatic conditions in North-western Himalayas of India. Journal of Agrometeorology 21 (3):  16-19.
  9. Lakshmi Kant, S.K. Pant, S.K. Jain, B.R. Raghu, B.D. Pandey, Dayashanker, Dibakar Mahanta, Renu Jethi, Arunava Pattanayak, G.S Bankoti and L.D. Malkani. (2020). VL Gehun 953: A high yielding, rust-resistant, winter x spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) derivative, suitable for organic hills as well as inorganic Plains of Uttarakhand state of India.  Journal of Cereal Research 12(1): 40-43.
  10. Lakshmi Kant, S.K. Pant, S.K. Jain, B.R. Raghu, B.D. Pandey, Dayashanker, Dibakar Mahanta, Renu Jethi, Arunava Pattanayak, G.S Bankoti and L.D. Malkani. (2020). VL Gehun 953: A high yielding, rust-resistant, winter x spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) derivative, suitable for organic hills as well as inorganic Plains of Uttarakhand state of India.  Journal of Cereal Research 12(1): 40-43.

Book Chapters 

  1. Raghu, B.R., 2023. Curry leaf. In: Dubey, R.K., and Singh, J. (Eds.), Production technology of underexploited vegetable crops. Kalyani publishers. pp. 72-85 1st ed. ISBN No. 978-93-5540-341-4
Awards & Recognitions: 
  1. Awarded ICAR JRF for MSc
  2. Awarded ICAR-IARI fellowship for PhD
  3. Awarded INSPIRE fellowship of DST, GOI for PhD
  4. Awarded Best student of the year 2008 of ICAR-IARI during MSc
  5. Awarded gold medal for MSc thesis work at ICAR-IARI
  6. Best session paper award during national conference on climate change and agriculture production: Adapting crops to climate variability and uncertainty. 6-8 April, 2017, BAU, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India.
  7. Best oral presentation in 5th National Symposium on Plant Protection in Horticulture (NSPPH-2021): Challenges and road map ahead held during 27th – 29th December 2021 at ICAR-IIHR Bengaluru.
Email Address: 
raghu.r@icar.gov.in
Telephone #: 
080-23086100 Extn 386