Academics

Post Doctoral in Characterization of promoter region of ALMT1 gene

CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

Ph.D. in Genetics and Plant Breeding

G B Pant Univeristy of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar

M.Sc.(Agri) Genetics and Plant Breeding

C S A Univeristy of Agriculture and Technology Kanpur

B.Sc. Agricultural

C S A Univeristy of Agriculture and Technology Kanpur

Projects

• Current projects as PI and CO-PI (In House)
• Augmentation, management and documentation of soybean germplasm (as PI)
• Breeding drought tolerant varieties in soybean (as Co-PI)
• Current projects as PI and Co-PI (External)
• Mapping gene (s) for Rhizoctonia aerial blight (RAB) resistance and stacking with yellow mosaic disease resistance, null Kunitz trypsin inhibitor, null lipoxygenase-2 genes, and broadening the genetic base of soybean (as Co-PI)
• • Development of improved soybean varieties with higher yield, insect resistance and oil quality through gene editing

Publications

• Best Five Publications
• Rachana Tripathi , Nisha Agrawal , Giriraj Kumawat , Sanjay Gupta , Philips Varghese , Milind B, Ratnaparkhe , Virender S, Bhatia Shivakumar Maranna , Gyanesh K, Satpute , Suresh Chand , Meeta Jain QTL mapping for long juvenile trait in soybean accession AGS 25 identifies association between a functional allele of FT2a and delayed flowering, Euphytica, 217: 36
• Sanjay Gupta , Giriraj Kumawat , Soniya Yadav , Rachana Tripathi ,Nisha Agrawal , Shivakumar Maranna , Gyanesh K, Satpute (2021) Identification and characterization of a novel long juvenile resource AGS 25. Genet Resour Crop Evol (2021) 68:1149–1163
• Peter R. Ryan1, Harsh Raman, Sanjay Gupta, Takayuki Sasaki, Yoko Yamamoto and Emmanuel Delhaize (2010) The multiple origins of aluminium resistance in hexaploid wheat include Aegilops tauschii and more recent cis mutations to TaALMT1. The Plant Journal 64, 446-455
• P R Ryan, H Raman, Sanjay Gupta, Horst W J and Delhaize E (2009) A second mechanism for aluminum resistance in wheat relies on citrate efflux and maps to chromosome 4BL. Plant Physiology, 149: 340-351 .

Achievements

• Development of soybean varieties NRC 130, NRC 131, NRC 157 and NRC 165
• Registration of MACS 330, EC 34101, EC 390977 and JS 20-34 for photoinsensitivity and AGS 25 for long juvenility
• R S Agrawal Gold medal award by the C S Azad University on having stood first during Master's degree programme.
• • Bronze medal award by C S Azad University on having stood third during B. Sc degree programme.
• Awarded DBT-Niche Area Fellowship Award 2017-18 to work on Aluminium tolerance genes in CSIRO, Canberra.