ICAR-NRCB

Dr. K.Nagendran

Division

Crop Protection

Specialization / Discipline

Plant Virology / Plant Pathology

Area of Interest

Molecular characterization of viruses, Establishment of screening protocol for resistance screening against viral diseases, Development of diagnostics for viruses, Integrated approaches for virus disease management

Publications

Qualifications

Ph.D.

Nagendran.Krishnan@icar.gov.in
drnagendrankrishnan@gmail.com

Current Institute Projects:

Development of agro-infectious clones for the DNA viruses infecting banana (PI)
Molecular approaches to understand the host-virus-vector-environment interactions and the management of banana viruses (Co-PI)
Assessment of carbon sequestration, energy budgeting, biodiversity, and production potential of three different banana production ecosystems of tropical climate (Co-PI)

Current External Projects:

Development and utilisation of diagnostics to viruses of banana (Co-PI)
Gene editing to develop resistance against Foc TR4 /race1 and multiple viruses in Grand Nain banana (Co-PI)
Establishment of Agri-Business Incubation (ABI) Centre under ICAR-NAIF (Component-II) (Co-PI)

Documented several new disease reports of viral diseases (Orthotospoviruses, Potyviruses, Poleroviruses, Criniviruses, Begomoviruses, Tobamoviruses and Cucumber mosaic virus) on different horticultural crops including vegetables
Associated with the development of 5 varieties and hybrids of okra and sponge gourd
Established the LAMP assay for the quick detection of ToLCJoV virus causing leaf curl disease in solanaceous vegetables
Coat proteins of CaCV were expressed in bacterial system and produced polyclonal antisera for diagnosis
Developed IDM module for the management of viral diseases in bitter gourd, chilli, tomato and okra

Awarded Fellow of Indian Society of Vegetable Science (FISVS) for the year 2021
Awarded Himadri Young Scientist Award for the year 2021-22 by the Indian Society of Horticultural Research & Development (ISHRD), Uttarakhand
Awarded “Early Career Award” by DST through SERB with an project entitled “Agroinfectious clones development for probing resistance to chilli leaf curl diseases caused by begomoviruses and devising integrated management strategy” (Budget of 35 lakhs INR)
Awarded with Dr. Harbhajan Singh Memorial Award-2019 for a paper on “Identification of resistant sources against chilli leaf curl virus disease through field and molecular screening in chilli” published in Vegetable Science 46: 17-22
Awarded Best Oral Presentation Award for presentation on “Risk mapping for spread of cucurbits viral diseases using ArcGIS in Uttar Pradesh state, India” in “TNAU Golden Jubilee International Conference - Global Perspectives in Crop Protection for Food Security (GPCP 2021)” (8-10, December, 2021) at TNAU, Coimbatore
Awarded Best Poster Presentation Award for paper on “Poleroviruses: An emerging threat for cucurbits cultivation in northern India” in the International Conference on Plant Protection in Horticulture: Advances and Challenges (ICPPH-2019) held during 24-27 July 2019 at ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru

Nagendran, K. , Kumari, S., Pandey, S., Karmakar, P., Chaubey, T., Kumar, R., Vignesh, S., Karthikeyan, G. and Behera, T.K., 2023. Emergence of yellowing disease in cucurbitaceous vegetables caused by Crinivirus and Polerovirus in India. Virology, 587, 109876
Nagendran, K. , Kumari, S., Chaubey, T., Kumar, R.V., Chinnappa, M., Dubey, V., Pandey, K.K., Singh, J. and Singh, A.K., 2023. Study on mosaic disease of sponge gourd (Luffa cylindrica L.) caused by tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus. Journal of Plant Pathology, 105(2),573-580
Sangeeta, Kumar RV, Yadav BK, Bhatt BS, Krishna R, Nagendran K ,Karkute SG, Kumar S, Singh B, Singh AK. 2023 Diverse begomovirus-betasatellite complexes cause tomato leaf curl disease in the western India. Virus Research, 20, 199079
Vignesh, S., Renukadevi, P., Nagendran, K. , Senthil, N., Kumar, R.V., SwarnaPriya, R., Behera, T.K. and Karthikeyan, G., 2023. A distinct strain of tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus that causes mosaic disease in ash gourd and other cucurbitaceous crops. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14,1268333
Aravintharaj, R., Asokan, R., Prasad Babu, K., Manamohan, M. and Nagendran, K. , 2023. Molecular characterization of the Indian isolate (Ka-To) of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) infecting tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). 3 Biotech, 13(6),169

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