My primary area of research and development in computer application for agriculture domain which include research, prototyping new app development for the Indian famers. In recent years the agricultural apps are very useful for famers and agricultural community which keep up to date with latest technology of agriculture. Several Mobile apps has been developed for Horticultural crop cultivation to help Indian farmers and fill the information gap between farmers and scientist. Nominated by ICAR for foreign visit as a part of International training: USA, for 90 days at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York State, United States sponsored by NAIP
In the main Institute for development of computer based applications, I was handling several projects as Principal Investigator and as Co –PI.
Developed more than 15 Mobile apps for Horticultural crop cultivations in English and several regional languages. These apps can be installed from google play store and being used by large group of famers involved in horticultural crop cultivation specific to Tomato, mango, Brinjal, Chilli, papaya, Okra, water melon, French bean, Sapota and Pomegranate crop cultivation.
These apps has been developed for smart phones which provides crop management solutions for farmers to make their management decisions cultivation. The apps primarily designed for Android OS platform with navigational elements using java programming language to traverse in to specific modules which provides crop management solutions viz., Crop production, Disease management, Pest management and IIHR Varieties and hybrids released by Institute and other promising varieties for cultivation.
I have also associated with various External projects funded by ICAR, NCAP, IASRI, etc. as Principal Investigator and Co –PI as well. from 2008 to 2015
PI of AGROWEB Project for IIHR center : A NAIP project (World Bank funded project) for Digital dissemination system for agricultural research
Co-PI in Consortia Research Platform on Borers for the Plant borers in Horticultural crops
Co-PI in Network project on Market Intelligence
Co-PI in Socio Economic development platform
Co-PI in CAB- In (Centre for Agricultural Bioinformatics) Network project.
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M K Chandra Prakash, Reena Rosy Thomas, Sudha Mysore, Rasika Thaker & G. Vadivel (2011), Market Information System for Horticultural Crops: Web application development for interactive graphs, Journal of Horticultural Sciences, Vol 3(1) p76-83 |
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Pomegranate crop management system: a web based application (2020), RR Thomas, M K Chandra Prakash, International Journal for Agricultural Science and research p 33-38, Vol(10) issue 1 |
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M K Chandra Prakash and Reena Rosy Thomas (2019) Genome wide identification of nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) gene encoding regions in Solanum lycopersicum resistant to environmental pathogens by computational methods, Journal of Environmental Biology, Vol 40 (4) |
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M.K Chandra Prakash, Reena Rosy Thomas, Sukhada Mohandas (2014). Mobile genetic element excision footprints of Drosophila melanogaster found in Heat Shock Protein coding regions of Solanaceae crops. Pest Management in Horticultural Ecosystems, 20 (1): 50-54. |
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M.K. Chandra Prakash, Reena Rosy Thomas and Papiya, Mondal (2015). In silico analysis of whole genome of Solanum lycopersicum for alpha-crystallin domains associated with heat stress tolerance. Journal of Horticultural Sciences, 10 (2): 143-146. |
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Reena Rosy Thomas, M.K. Chandra Prakash, M. Krishna Reddy, Riaz Mahmood, Papiya Mondal. (2017). Identification of dehydrin markers in Capsicum annuum for development of drought tolerant crops in changing environment. Journal of Environmental Biology, 38:335-340 Krishi Portal URI: http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/17528 |
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Reena Rosy Thomas, M. K. Chandra Prakash, M. Krishna Reddy, Riaz Mahmood and Papiya Mondal (2017). EST linked markers in Solanum melongena responsive to abiotic stress using computational methods. The Ecoscan,11 (1&2): 45-49 [Krishi Portal URI : http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/17529] |
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Reena Rosy Thomas and M K Chandra Prakash (2022). Data retrieval system for flower crop cultivation, International Journal of Computer Science & Engg. and Information Technol. Res., 12 (1): 89-92. |
Patents/ Awards/ Technologies developed: 15 Mobile apps developed : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tomatoapp55
Link available in ICAR-IIHR website as well : http://iihr.res.in
• Received NAIP fellowship for International training program at USA during the year 2010.
• Received World Bank funded project NAIP – AGROWEB : Digital dissemination system for Indian agricultural research during 2008-11, a world bank project for a total amount of 5.97 Crores for 9 institutes, I was a consortia partner PI for IIHR, I had been identified by ICAR as one of the web master for development uniform guideline s for ICAR websites.
• Participated International Conference on Plant breeding and 4 th annual plant breeding meeting, an initiative of Plant Breeding Co-ordination Committee, during 15-17 Aug 2010 held at Johnston, IOWA, USA.
ATIC Building, Div. of Social Sciences, ICAR – IIHR Bangalore 560089