ICAR

On-going Research Projects

Project No.	Years	Project Title	PI/Co-PI
CROP IMPROVEMENT
Mega theme- Soybean genetic resource management- Acquisition, conservation, characterization, documentation and utilization
NRCS 1.1/87	1987-LT	Augmentation, management and documentation of soybean germplasm	Dr. Sanjay Gupta-PI Dr. G.K. Satpute Dr. Rajesh Vangla Dr. G. Kumawat Dr Subash Chandra Mr. R.M. Patel Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Dr. Lokesh Kumar Meena Dr. S. Kolhe
Mega theme- Genetic improvement of soybean for yield, agronomic traits, resistance to biotic stresses and improvement in quality of soybean seed
NRCS 1.6/92	1992-LT	Hybridization, selection and development of multi-parent population for genetic improvement of yield potential in soybean	Dr Shivakumar M.-PI Dr. G. Kumawat Dr. Rajkumar Ramteke Dr. Nataraj V. Dr. Lokesh Kumar Meena Mr. R.M. Patel Dr. Vangla Rajesh Dr Subash Chandra Dr. Laxman Singh
IISR 1.33/16	2016-LT	Development of YMV resistant soybean varieties using marker assisted selection	Dr. Anita Rani-PI Dr. Vineet Kumar Dr. B.S. Gill
IISR 1.35/17	2017-2022	Improvement in soybean seed viability and strength of seed coat by genetic amelioration of seed coat traits	Dr P. Kuchlan-PI Dr. M. K. Kuchlan Dr. Sanjay Gupta
IISR 3.11b/18	2017-2022	Soybean Improvement against charcoal rot and anthracnose diseases	Dr. Nataraj V.-PI Dr. S. Jahagirdar Dr. L.S. Rajput Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Dr. R. Ramteke Dr. V. Rajesh Dr. Shivakumar M. Dr. M.B. Ratnaparkhe Dr. S. Huligol
IISR 1.34/17	2018-2023	Enhancing disease resistance in soybean using genomic approaches	Dr. Milind B. Ratnaparkhe-PI Dr. Shivakumar M. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Dr. Nataraj V. Mr. Viraj Kamble Dr. Subash Chandra Dr. V. Rajesh
IISR 3.12/19	1992-LT	Soybean Improvement against defoliating insects	Dr. V. Rajesh-PI Dr. A.N. Sharma Dr. Lokesh Kumar Meena Dr. Shivakumar M. Dr. Vennampally Nataraj Mr. Viraj Gangadhar Kamble
IISR 3.13/19	2019-2024	Evaluation of germplasm and breeding for collar rot disease caused by Sclerotium rolsfsii Sacc in soybean	Dr. R. Ramteke-PI Dr. L.S. Rajput Mr. S. Kumar Dr. Nataraj V. Dr. V. Rajesh Dr. Shivakumar M. Dr. M.B. Ratnaparkhe Dr. P. Amrate Dr. M. Borah
Mega theme- Managing the impact of current and future climate variability in soybean
DSR 5.6a/08	2009-2021	Breeding for drought resistance / tolerance varieties in soybean	Dr G. K. Satpute-PI Dr. S. Gupta Dr. M. Singh Dr. S. Chandra Mr. Viraj Kamble>
DSR 5.6b/18	2018-2023	Soybean breeding for waterlogging tolerance	Dr. S. Chandra-PI Dr. G K Satpute Dr. Maharaj Singh Dr. Giriraj Kumawat Dr. V. Rajesh
Mega theme- Development of specialty soybean varieties for secondary agriculture and industrial uses
NRCS 1.12/02	2002-LT	Breeding for food grade characters and high oil content	Dr. Anita Rani-PI Dr. Vineet Kumar Dr. Neha Pandey
DSR 1.28/14	2014-2021	Mapping QTLs for oleic acid and development of high oleic acid soybean	Dr. Vineet Kumar-PI Dr. Anita Rani
IISR 1.32/16	2016-2020	Screening soybean germplasm for vegetable type characteristics and optimization of processing parameters	Dr Neha Pandey-PI Dr.Vineet Kumar Dr. Ashish Kumar Singh
CROP PROTECTION
Mega theme- Surveillance, forecasting and control strategies for insect pest complex in soybean
IISR 2.12/17	2017-2020	Effect of genotypic diversity on soybean insect pest and their natural enemies population	Dr. Lokesh Kumar Meena-PI Dr. A.N.Sharma Dr. L.S Rajput Mr. R.M.Patel
IISR 3.11a/18	2018-2020	Morphological and molecular characterization of Macrophomina phaseolina causing charcoal rot in soybean	Mr. Sanjeev Kumar-PI Dr. Laxman Singh Rajput Dr. Nataraj V. Dr. Milind B. Ratnaparkhe
IISR 3.11c/18	2018-2021	Selection of potential fungal and bacterial soybean endophytes and their evaluation against major diseases of soybean	Dr. L. S. Rajput-PI Dr. M.P. Sharma Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Dr. Lokesh Kumar Meena Dr. Milind B. Ratnaparkhe
CROP PRODUCTION
Mega theme- Development of technologies for soybean based cropping system efficiency enhancement through resource conservation technologies, nutrient management. plant growth promoting microbes and farm machineries (S D Billore)
DSR 4.10/09	2009-2020	System efficiency enhancement through resource conservation technologies	Dr. S. D. Billore-PI Dr. A. Ramesh Dr. A.N. Sharma Dr. M.P. Sharma Dr. M.M. Ansari Dr. Devvrat Singh
IISR 5.7/17	2017-2020	Drought amelioration in terms of morpho-physiological, biochemical characters and seed yield in soybean through foliar application of nutrients	Dr. Maharaj Singh-PI Dr. V.S. Bhatia Dr. R.K. Verma Dr. Nataraj V.
IISR 6.9/17	2017-2020	Bacterial mediated sulphur bioavailability in soybean	Sh. Hemant Maheshwari-PI Dr. M.P. Sharma Mr. Sanjeev Kumar
IISR 9.9/17	2017-2020	Design, development and validation of (A) Tractor PTO operated root stock cutting/shaving machine (B) Tractor PTO operated root stock picking machine to prevent burning of root stock for Vertisols and associated soils	Dr. Dev Vrat Singh-PI
IISR 4.13/17	2017-2022	Evaluation of tillage and crop establishment and residue management practices for sustaining/improving resources use efficiency, soil health and crop productivity in soybean based cropping systems	Dr. Rakesh Kumar Verma-PI Dr. S.D. Billore Dr. A. Ramesh Dr. Raghvendra Mandar Dr. M.P. Sharma Dr. Maharaj Singh
IISR 4.14/18	2018-2023	Agronomic biofortification of micronutrients in conservation agriculture based soybean-wheat cropping system	Dr. Raghavendra M.-PI Dr. S.D. Billore Dr. R.K. Verma Dr. A. Ramesh Dr. M.P. Sharma Dr. Maharaj Singh
IISR 9.10/2019	2019-2022	Predicting the incidence of stem fly, pod borer, and Bihar hairy caterpillar in soybean- A Geo-spatial approach	Sh. R. M. Pate-PI Dr. A.N. Sharma Dr. P. Sharma
EXTENSION
Mega theme- Information digitization, technology dissemination, impact analysis and socio-economic research for soybean
DSR 7.6/19	2019-2022	Development of field monitoring support system for All India Co-ordinated Research project trials.	Dr Savita Kolhe-PI Dr. A.N. Sharma
IISR 8.16/18	2018-2021	Impact of technological interventions on socio-economic status of soybean farmers under changing climate scenario - a comparative analysis	Dr. Nita Khandekar-PI Dr. B.U. Dupare Dr. P. Sharma Dr. R.K. Verma

External Funded Projects

Project No.	Years	Project Title	PI/Co-PI

DAC, Government of Indi	2005-LT	DUS testing of soybean-Central sector scheme for protection of plant varieties and farmers right.	Dr. Mrinal K. Kuchlan-PI Dr. Punam Kuchlan Dr. Vineet Kumar (Rs 6.5 Lakhs/Year
ICAR	2006-LT	DUS testing of soybean-Central sector scheme for protection of plant varieties and farmers right.	Dr. Mrinal K. Kuchlan-PI Dr. Punam Kuchlan Dr. Vineet Kumar (Rs 6.5 Lakhs/Year
DBT , Government of India	2017-2020	Marker assisted elimination of off flavor generating lox II gene from KTI free genotypes	Dr. Vineet Kumar-PI (Rs. 46.59,200 Lakhs)
DBT, Government of India	2017-2020	Assessing the bio-availability of nutrients and reduction of heavy metals in soil amended with inorganic and organic waste in presence of AM fungi and biochar	Dr M.P. Sharma-PI Mr. Hemant Maheshwari (Rs.19.73,000 Lakhs)
CSIR, Government of India	2017-2020	Development of an Efficient Scalable Clustering Algorithms for Big Data and investigation of Integrated system for Protein Sequence Classification	Dr. A.Tiwari-PI Dr. Milind B. Ratnaparkhe (Rs 10.00 Lakhs)
DAC, Minister of Agriculture	2018-2020	Creation of Seed Hubs for enhancing quality seeds availability of major oil seed crops under NFSM-Oil Seeds	Dr. Mrinal K. Kuchlan-PI (Rs 1.5 Crore)
DBT, Government of India	2018-2021	Development of genetic stocks for maturity and growth habit genes in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.)	Dr Sanjay Gupta-PI Dr. G. Kumawat (Rs 42.88,400 Lakhs)
ICAR Network Project	2018-2021	Identification of high trehalose -producing soybean rhizobia and their integration with AM fungi for enhanced drought tolerance in soybean	Dr M.P. Sharma-PI Mr.Hemant Maheshwari (Rs 20.00 Lakhs)
National Agriculture Science Funds (NASF), ICAR	2018-2021	Genomics strategies for improvement of yield and seed composition traits under drought stress conditions in soybean	Dr Milind B. Ratnaparkhe-PI Dr. Ajay Singh Ms. Anu Chitikineni (Rs 67.09,234 Lakhs)
IITM, Ministry of Earth Science, Govt. of India	2018-2021	Strategies for enhancing yield of soybean (Glycine max L) and pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan, L) in India using climate variability information and crop growth simulation models	Dr. Raghavendra M.-PI Mr. R. M. Patel (Rs 80. 94,000 Lakhs)
DBT, Government of India	2019-2021	Establishment of BIOTECH-KISAN Hub at Manthan Gramin Evam Smaj Seva Samiti,	Dr. Nita Khandekar (Rs 27 Lakhs)
DBT, Government of India	2019-2021	Expansions of Activities of Biotech -KISAN Hub in Seven Aspirational districts in Madhya Pradesh under Biotech-KISAN Hub	Dr. Nita Khandekar (Rs 27 Lakhs)
Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) Govt. Of India	2019-2021	Development of Laser Biospeckle Technique for Applications in Agriculture	Dr. Shashi Prakash Dr. Vimal Bhatia Dr. Laxman Singh Rajput (Rs 30 Lakhs)
DBT, Government of Indiaa	2020-2023	Accelerated development of Kunitz trypsin inhibitor free soybean genotypes with charcoal rot resistance	Dr. Vineet Kumar-PI (Rs 39.24200 Lakhs)