Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics

Background

BACKGROUND

Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics was established since inception of university with major thrust area to develop high yielding, disease resistant varieties of cereal, pulse, oilseed and other crops with better grain quality. Once the variety is released, its popularization and adoption among the farmers is the most important things for which the department conducts FLDs, organize Kisan Mela and our Scientists deliver lecture on their concerned crop and Subject on TV & Radio.

THRUST AREAS

  • Development of high yielding abiotic stress tolerant rice varieties.
  • Introgression of Sub-1  A QTL from Swarna Sub-1 into Rajendra Mahsuri background with the help of molecular markers.
  • Development of Aerobic Rice varieties for sustainable production in Bihar.
  • Development of high yielding single cross hybrids of maize resistant/tolerant to biotic and abiotic stresses.
  • Development of high yielding composites.
  • Development of hybrid oriented source population.
  • Specialty corn (Baby corn, Sweet corn, Pop corn) development
  • Development of high yielding wilt resistant lines 0f Pigeon Pea for Kharif season
  • Development of high oil content varieties of Seasame suitable for Bihar state condition.
  • Development of high yielding, Disease resistant, farmers preferable varieties of millets.

Research

RESEARCH PROJECT- ON GOING

  • All India crop improvement on Rice Maize oil Seed crops, Pulse crops and Millet crop.
  • Eastern India Shuttle Breeding Project on Rice.
  • DBT India-IRRI network project From QTL to variety: marker assisted Breeding of Abiotic Stress tolerant rice varieties with Major QTLs for drought, submergence and Salt tolerance.
  • International Rainfed Rice Agriculture System (IRRAS) on drought and submergence.
  • Detection of Allele other than Sub-1 for submergence tolerance in Mutant lines of rice using SSR molecular Markers (BERN).
  • Direct Seeded Rice (DSR) Project.
  • Development of Aerobic Rice for sustainable rice production in Bihar under RKVY.

Crop Varieties

Crop Varieties Released

With the efforts of the scientists of the department, a number  of varieties of different crops have been released and made popular among the farmers. Some of them are:

Crop Varieties Released
Rice Turant dhan (70d) Prabhat (95d) Saket (105) Rajendra Bhagwati (115a) Rajendra Kasturi (125d) Rajendra Suwasini (145d) Rajendra Mahsuri (145d) Sudha and Vaidehi.
Maize Laxmi, Deoki, Suwan (Crop) Shaktiman 1,2,3,4 and 5
Oil Seed Rajendra Suflam, Ageti
Arhar Sharad, Bahar, Basant
Gram RAU-52, SG-2, SG-4, BR-78
Masoor Arun
Urd Naveen

 

MoU with Private Company

For popularization and dissemination of newly released variety of Rice and Maize, MoU has been signed with private Companies.

Rice: Rajendra Bhagwati

  • Ankur Seed Pvt. Ltd., Nagpur
  • Delta Agri Genetics Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad

Maize: Shaktiman 1,2,3,4 and 5

  • Ankur Seed Pvt. Ltd., Nagpur (Shaktiman 3&5)
  • Delata Agri Genetics Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad (Shaktiman 2&4)
  • Sahkari Sahyog Samiti, Jaipur (Shaktiman 3)
  • GV Seeds Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad (Shaktiman 4)

Faculty

FACULTY STRENGTH

S. No. Name Designation Contact No. E-mail Id
1. Dr. N. K. Singh Professor & Head 9431834065 nksingh_1958@yahoo.com
2. Dr. Anil Pandey Professor 9934019564 aniltcadholi@gmail.com
3. Dr. S. B. Mishra Professor 9430937328 mishrasb1@yahoo.com
4. Dr. Ajay Kumar Singh Senior Scientist 9835012154 singhakrau@gmail.com
5. Dr. Nilanjaya Assistant Professor 9801400108 nilanjayapbg@gmail.com
6. Dr. Rajesh Kumar Associate Professor 8809435010 rajrau.2007@rediffmail.com
7. Dr. S. K. Singh Associate Professor 9431790120 singhsatish3747@gmail.com-
8. Dr. Ajay Kumar Scientist 9430459955 drajaymuz@rediffmail.com
9. Dr. D. N. Kamat Scientist 9801454742 dnkamat@rpcau.ac.in
10. Dr. Ashish Narayan Scientist 9430259391 narayanashish@rediffmail.com
11. Dr. Balwant Kumar Scientist 9430859737 balwant_pbg@rediffmail.com-
12. Dr. U. K. Singh Scientist 9931956795 uksinghraupusa@gmail.com
13. Mrs. Madhuri Arya Scientist 8004492415
14. Mr. Aman Tigga Assistant Professor 7992380388 aman@rpcau.ac.in
15. Dr. Mithilesh Kumar Singh Assistant Professor 7579440916 mithilesh.pbg@rpcau.ac.in
16. Dr. Hrishikesh Sutradhar Assistant Professor 8416089340 hrishikesh@rpcau.ac.in