Ongoing projects (List):

As Principal Investigator

• Basic and strategic research on seed quality improvement

As -Principal Investigator

• Objective: “Optimization of hybrid seed production system in finger millet through interspecific hybridization” under the project Improving Seed Production System and Certification.
• Seed quality assessment and enhancement
• Improving Seed Health and Storage System
• Technology Dissemination, Capacity Building and Impact Assessment of Quality Seed Production

 Inter Institutional Collaboration project

• Genetic garden and gene bank for abiotic stress tolerant plants, animals and fisheries for food security and sustainability
• Augmenting farm income in water scarce regions with alternative crops

Research Accomplishments (5 best):

1. Delineated the inheritance pattern of aleurone layer colour through chemical tests in rice.
2. The chemical combinations for enhancing the outcrossing and seed set in finger millet partial male sterile line PS-1.

• Mapped QTLs governing high seed vigour characters in rice.

1. Mapped QTLs governing seed longevity in soybean
2. Identified some highly promising rice accessions on the basis of their performance for various seed yield component and biotic stress resistance in rice.