| Position |
scientist
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| Affiliation |
ICAR RC NEHR Manipur Centre
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| Location |
nan
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| Current Role |
Scientist
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| Area of Research |
Genetics and plant breeding, molecular breeding
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| UG |
Agriculture - 2011 - GKVK, UAS, Bangalore
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| PG |
Genetics - 2013 - IARI, New Delhi
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| PhD |
Genetics - 2016 - IARI, New Delhi
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| Awards |
1.Fulbright Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship
2. ISCA Young Scientist Award 2020
3. SERB- Early Career Research Award in Life Sciences (2019)
4. Awarded CSIR-UGC JRF FELLOWSHIP (with NET) for pursuing Ph.D degree programme (All India 56th JRF rank under subject Life Sciences) in June 2013.
5. Qualified CSIR-UGC NET (All India 36thrank under Life Sciences) in June 2012.
6. Qualified ICAR-NET in Genetics and Plant Breeding conducted by Agriculture Scientists Recruitment Board on October 2013.
7. Qualified ICAR-SRF in Genetics and Plant Breeding conducted by Agriculture Scientists Recruitment Board on October 2013.
8. Awarded ICAR-JRF FELLOWSHIP (All India 2nd rank in Plant Sciences) for pursuing Master of Science (Genetics) in IARI, New Delhi in 2011.
9. Offered „United Kingdom‟s COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIP‟ for pursuing Post Graduation in UK in 2011.
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| Significant Contribution |
Principal Investigator of projects:
1. Breeding for good quality high yielding rice varieties of Manipur and mapping of leaf and neck blast resistant gene(s)
2. Development of locally adapted haploid inducer lines in maize through marker-assisted introgression of pollen-specific MATRILINEAL phospholipase gene
3. Development of high yielding rice variety of Manipur Black scented Chakhao (Oryza Sativa L.)
4. All India Coordinated Rice Improvement Project
5. DUS testing and grow out test (GOT) of Farmers varieties of rice from North Eastern region, India
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| Bio |
1. Sarika K et al. 2019. Correlation of seed quality traits with 100 seed weight in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes. Int J Chem Stud 7(3): 4006-4011.
2. Sarika K et al. 2018. Opaque16 a high lysine and tryptophan mutant, does not influence the key physico-biochemical characteristics in maize kernel. PLoS One 2: 1–14.
3. Sarika K et al. 2018. Marker-assisted pyramiding of opaque2 and novel opaque16 genes for further enrichment of lysine and tryptophan in sub-tropical maize. Plant Science. 272: 142-152.
4. Sarika K et al. 2017. Exploration of novel opaque16 mutation as a source for high-lysine and -tryptophan in maize endosperm. Indian J Genet 77(1): 59-64.
5. Sarika K et al. 2014. Molecular diversity of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes differing in their raffinose family oligosaccharides viz., raffinose and stachyose content as revealed through SSR markers Aust J Crop Sci 8:1175-1185.
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| Primary Role |
Research
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| Leadership |
Establishment of well equipped molecular breeding laboratory in ICAR RC NEHR Manipur Centre
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| Twitter |
nan
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| Contact |
konsams@gmail.com
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