Dr Anita Rani

Dr Anita Rani

Principal Scientist (Plant Breeding)
anita.rani@icar.gov.in
0731-2437914(O)
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https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5wj2vPUAAAAJ
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anita_Rani7

Academics

Ph.D. in Genetics
CCS Haryana Agricultural University,Hisar (Haryana)
M.Sc.Genetics
CCS Haryana Agricultural University,Hisar (Haryana)
B.Sc (Hons) Agriculture
CCS Haryana Agricultural University,Hisar (Haryana)

Projects

  • Current projects as PI and CO-PI (In House)
  • Breeding for Food Grade characters and High Oil Content in Soybean
  • Development of YMV resistant Soybean Varieties using Marker Assisted Selection
  • Mapping QTLs for oleic acid and development of high oleic acid soybean
  • Current projects as PI and CO-PI (Externally Funded)
  • Pyramiding Genes for Resistance to Yellow Mosaic Disease and null Kunitz Trypsin Inhibitor in the Two Most Popular Soybean Varieties through MAS funded by DBT(as PI)
  • Accelerated development of kunitz trypsin inhibitor free soybean genotype with charcoal rot resistance through marker assisted selection funded by DBT(as CCCoPI)
  • Marker Assisted Elimination of off-flavour generating lipoxygenase-2 gene from Kunitz trypsin inhibitor free soybean lines. (as Co-PI)

Publication

  • Best Five Publications
  • Anita Rani, Vineet Kumar, B S Gill, Pushpendra Rathi, Shruti Shukla, R K Singh (2018) Mapping of duplicate dominant genes for MYMIV resistance in Glycine soja. Crop Science (Crop science Society of America) 58 (4) :1566-1577
  • Vineet Kumar, Anita Rani, Reena Rawal, Vaishali Mourya (2015) Marker assisted accelerated introgression of null allele of kunitz trypsin inhibitor in soybean. Breeding science (Japanese Society of Breeding) 65(5) : 447-452
  • RaniA., V.Kumar, B.S.Gill, P.Rathi, S.Shukla, R.K.Singh ( 2017) Linkage mapping of Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus (MYMIV) resistance gene in soybean. Breeding science (Japanese Society of Breeding) 67(2): 95– 100
  • Anita Rani, Kuldeep Verma and Raman Saini(2012) Recovery of fertile transgenic plants via Agrobacterium tumefaciensmediated transformation in Indian soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill) cultivar. Indian J. Genet. 72(3): 325-331
  • Vineet Kumar, Anita Rani, Priyanka Mittal, Mohd Shuaib (2019) Kunitz trypsin inhibitor in soybean: contribution to total trypsin inhibitor activity as a function of genotype and fate during processing. Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization 13 : 1583–1590

Achievements

  • • Government of India, Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology conferred “Biotech Product & Process Development and Commercialization Award 2015” in recognition of the work of the undersigned on the development of specialty soybean to meet the challenges of nutritional security and edible oil sufficiency
  • KUNITZ TRYPSIN INHIBITOR FREE SOYBEAN genotypes NRC101 and NRC102 developed through Marker Assisted forward breeding have been commercialized to private companies
  • LIPOXYGENASE 2 FREE SOYBEAN genotypes NRC109 developed through Marker Assisted forward breeding has now been commercialized to private companies
  • MYMIV resistant soybean variety IS(L) 1 developed through MAS has been notified for release in Eastern India
  • KUNITZ TRYPSIN INHIBITOR FREE SOYBEAN variety NRC127 has been notified for release for Central India
  • Lipoygenase 2 free soybean variety IS 132 has been notified for release for Southern and Eastern india
  • High oleic variety IS 147 has been notified for release for Southern and Eastern India