Our recent paper in Plant Cell Reports describes a simple and robust Agrobacterium-mediated gene expression system in foxtail millet with up to 27 % transformation efficiency. The study was funded by SERB! See, doi.org/10.1007/s00299… Manoj Prasad Department of Biotechnology DSTIndia

Our recent paper on foxtail millet genetic transformation

Happy to share our recent review article: authors.elsevier.com/c/1aawg3VH9W-c…

Our new normal! Virtual lab meeting!! Thank you to all those able to attend. Saturday well-spent... Manoj Prasad Tirthankar Mehanathan Muthamilarasan Roshan Kumar Singh Priya Dulani Priyanka Sood BRIC-NIPGR SciCommIndia 🇮🇳 #labmeeting #SocialDistancing #StayAtHomeAndStaySafe

Cheers to MANOJ'S LAB

Saurabh Pandey from MANOJ'S LAB has successfully defended his PhD thesis online, today! He worked on 'Deciphering the role of RNA helicases in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) upon Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (ToLCNDV) infection' Congratulations, Saurabh!!

PhD completed.......

Mr Roshan Singh successfully defended his doctoral thesis (Through Dr. Manoj Prasad, Scientist) entitled “Delineating the roles of heat shock factor- and heat shock protein- encoding gene(s) of foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.] during abiotic stress” on Jul 28, 2020

Our review article on ‘IRONing out stress problems in crops: a homeostatic perspective’ has been published in Physiologia Plantarum (IF: 4.148) Full text: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… Physiologia Plantarum BRIC-NIPGR SciSoup SciCommIndia 🇮🇳 DSTIndia SERB

Our research article "Silencing AC1 of Tomato leaf curl virus using artificial microRNA confers resistance to leaf curl disease in transgenic tomato" is just published online in ‘Plant Cell Reports’ [IF: 3.825] Full text: rdcu.be/b6ybk Congrats, Dr. Namisha Sharma!

This is BIG! Our article on ‘Small millets for enduring food security amidst pandemics’ is now published in ‘Trends Plant Sci’ (Cell Press)!! bit.ly/TIPS_Millets BRIC-NIPGR Principal Scientific Adviser, Govt. of India K. VijayRaghavan Ashutosh Sharma Dr. Renu Swarup Shekhar Mande Sandeep Verma (स्वर) Manoj Prasad

Our review on ‘Breeding and biotechnological interventions for trait improvement: status and prospects’ is now published in ‘Planta’! Full text: rdcu.be/b7qlp Congratulations, Roshan Kumar Singh ashish prasad Mehanathan Muthamilarasan Manoj Prasad

Many congratulations to our life-time mentor, Dr. Manoj Prasad for being listed in top 2% scientists worldwide in the study by Ioannidis et al. (2020)! doi.org/10.1371/journa… MANOJ'S LAB BRIC-NIPGR SciSoup SciCommIndia 🇮🇳 Department of Biotechnology Manoj Prasad

Another article from my lab reciting the efforts invested in dissecting the climate-resilient traits in small millets and a roadmap for deploying the information in crop improvement (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…)

We are pleased to share our recent review article, ‘Delineating the epigenetic regulation of heat and drought response in plants,’ published in ‘Critical Reviews in Biotechnology’ E-print link: tandfonline.com/eprint/CDKAU8Y… BRIC-NIPGR Roshan Kumar Singh Manoj Prasad SciCommIndia 🇮🇳

BRIC-NIPGR Roshan Kumar Singh Manoj Prasad SciCommIndia 🇮🇳 The article summarizes the recent understanding of the consequences of heat and drought in plants and their regulatory response navigated through epigenetic modifications.

Hearty congratulations to Roshan Kumar Singh for bagging the much coveted Jawaharlal Nehru Award for P.G. Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research 2021 conferred by the Indian Council of Argicultural Research!! BRIC-NIPGR Manoj Prasad Roshan Kumar Singh SciCommIndia 🇮🇳 Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

We are happy to share our recent article on ‘Potential of underutilized crops to introduce the nutritional diversity and achieve zero hunger’ published in ‘Functional & Integrative Genomics’ Full-text: link.springer.com/article/10.100… BRIC-NIPGR Manoj Prasad Roshan Kumar Singh

(1/3) Dr. Manoj Prasad group recently published an article on ‘Potential of underutilized crops to introduce the nutritional diversity and achieve zero hunger' in ‘Functional & Integrative Genomics’ Full-text: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Department of Biotechnology SciCommIndia 🇮🇳 Manoj Prasad

We are glad to share our recent research on ‘SiHSFA2e regulated expression of SisHSP21.9 maintains chloroplast proteome integrity under high temperature stress’ published in ‘Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences’ (IF: 9.2) Full text: link.springer.com/article/10.100… BRIC-NIPGR