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Dr.Nagendran K[Scientist]

Qualification	Ph.D.
Specialization / Discipline	Plant Virology / Plant Pathology
Department	Crop Protection Division
Official email	Nagendran.Krishnan@icar.gov.in , drnagendrankrishnan@gmail.com
Salient Research Achievements (in bullets)	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
Current Research Projects(Institute)	Nil
Current Research Projects(External)	Nil
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
Total Research Publications	66
Best five Publications	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
Awards	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

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