| Designation | Scientist |
|---|---|
| Qualification | Ph.D in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology |
| Division | Division of Crop Improvement |
| Specialisation | Molecular Biology and Biotechnology |
| Intercom | 409 |
| Location | Head Quarters |
Areas of Interest
Functional Genomics, Gene editing, Genetic engineering, Epigenetics, Cell
and Developmental Biology, Bioinformatics, Comparative genomics and Crop disease
management.
Research Projects
Number of institute projects completed : 8
Institute projects
As PI
ICAR-IIAB, Ranchi
• IXX14646. Decoding the molecular mechanisms of molybdenum and boron
metabolism in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L) under acidic soil conditions.
ICAR-IIOR, Hyderabad
• DOR 103-11: IXX09329. Elucidating the molecular mechanisms governing sex
expression in castor: 2012-2018
As Co-PI
ICAR-IIAB, Ranchi
• Introgression of genes/QTLs for drought tolerance and efficient phosphorus uptake in
rice using MAS
• Identification and mapping of novel genes/QTLs for Phosphorus uptake and use
efficiency in Rice
• Development and evaluation of the efficacy of novel nanoparticles for enhancing yield
in rice and Indian major carp.
ICAR-IIOR, Hyderabad
• DOR 103-6: Genetic enhancement through biotechnological approaches in castor:
Host-pathogen interactions in Botrytis grey rot of castor: Completed 2012-2015
• DOR103-2: Diversification of pistillate base and development of varieties and hybrids
in castor 2011-12.
• Flagship project on Castor gray mold 2012-2016.
Number of Institute projects being handled : 6
As PI
ICAR-CTCRI, Thiruvananthapuram
• Molecular characterisation of nutrient homeostasis in tubers for biofortification in
cassava: on going from April 2023 under Mega Project 2: Genetic improvement of tuber
crops through conventional breeding and molecular approaches.
As co-PI
ICAR-CTCRI, Thiruvananthapuram
• Yams germplasm: under Mega Project 1: Conservation and utilization of germplasm of
tuber crops for sustaining production
• Breeding to evolve trait-specific varieties in cassava, yams and arrowroot for
productivity, earliness, quality and resistance to biotic stresses under Mega Project 2:
Genetic improvement of tuber crops through conventional breeding and molecular
approaches.
• Inducing genetic variability, characterization, grouping and developing breeding lines
with large tuber size and short duration in Chinese potato under Mega Project 2: Genetic
improvement of tuber crops through conventional breeding and molecular approaches.
• Genetic improvement of cassava through gene editing for modified starch under Mega
Project 2: Genetic improvement of tuber crops through conventional breeding and
molecular approaches.
• Generation and application of statistical and bioinformatics tools for tuber crops
research and development under Mega Project 8: Developing methodologies and tools
for assessment and transfer of tuber crops technologies.
.Number of externally funded projects completed : 2
External projects
ICAR-IIOR, Hyderabad
As co-PI
• NFBSFARA funded project: Deciphering molecular mechanism of induction of biotic
stress tolerance by Trichoderma sp in castor (Ricinus communis L): 2012-2015.
• ICAR Extra Mural fund Project on "Transcriptome and Proteome analysis for
identification of candidate genes responsible for pistillate nature in castor" 2016-2017.
Number of externally funded projects being handled : 1
As Co-PI
• Genetic improvement of cassava through gene editing for modified starch under Mega
Project 2: Genetic improvement of tuber crops through conventional breeding and
molecular approaches.
Research Publications
Number of Research papers : 14
Research papers
• Parvathy, S.T., Prabakaran, A.J and Jayakrishna, T. (2021). Probing the Floral
Developmental Stages, Bisexuality and Sex Reversions in Castor (Ricinus communis
L.) Scientific Reports. 11, 4246. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-81781-9. NAAS rating:
10.00
• Sujatha. T. Parvathy., Raoof M.A., Jagadesh, P. and Jayakrishna, T. (2018). In vitro
sporulation, cultural characterisation, identification and phylogeny of gray mold fungus
(Botryotinia ricini (Godfrey) Whetzel.) of Castor. Applied Biological Research. 20 (2):
105-117. NAAS rating: 5.07
• Sujatha. T. Parvathy and Srinivasan, R. (2016). Functional analysis of a cryptic
promoter from Arabidopsis thaliana reveals bidirectionality. Plant Biotechnology
Reports, 10: 241-255. NAAS rating: 7.19
• Sujatha. T. Parvathy, Raoof M.A., Jagadesh, P. and Douglas, B. (2016). A
simple method for screening gray mold of castor (Ricinus communis L) under artificial
conditions. Applied Biological Research, 18 (2): 131-138. doi: 10.5958/0974-
4517.2016.00021.5 NAAS rating: 4.35
• Sujatha, T.P, Sivanandan, C., Bhat S.R. and Srinivasan. R. (2009). In silico and
deletion analysis of upstream promoter fragment of S-adenosyl homocysteine
hydrolase (SAHH1) of Arabidopsis leads to the identification of a fragment capable of
driving gene expression in developing seeds and anthers. Journal of Plant
Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 18 (1): 13-20. NAAS rating: 7.09
• Sivanandan, C. Sujatha T.P., Anand Mohan Prasad, Resminath, R., Dhiraj R. Thakare,
Bhat, S.R. and Srinivasan (2005). T-DNA tagging and characterization of a cryptic
root-specific promoter in Arabidopsis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1731 (3): 202-
208. NAAS rating: 12.33
• Dipnarayan Saha, Anand M. Prasad, Thankeswaran P.Sujatha, Vajinder Kumar,
Pradeep K. Jain, Sripad R. Bhat and Ramamurthy Srinivasan (2006). In silico analysis
of the Lateral Organ Junction (loj) gene and promoter of Arabidopsis thaliana. In Silico
Biology 7: 0002.
Reviews
• Sujatha Thankeswaran Parvathy, Varatharajalu Udayasuriyan, and Vijaipal
Bhadana (Parvathy, S.T., Udayasuriyan, V. and Bhadana, V.P) (2021). Codon usage
bias. Molecular Biology Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-021-06749-4. NAAS
rating 8.3
• Thankeswaran Parvathy Sujatha, Kumar Sudhir and Sarkar Biplab (2021). Plant
Viruses: Versatile tools of Nanomedicine. Research Journal of Biotechnology, 16 (4):
245-249. NAAS rating: 4.00
• Sujatha Thankeswaran Parvathy (2020). Engineering plants as platforms for
production of vaccines. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 11(5): 707-735. NAAS
rating: 3.91
• Sujatha Thankeswaran Parvathy, Sudhir Kumar, Rishikesh Kumar and Vijaipal
Bhadana. (2020). Food Safety: Countering the menace of food adulteration. Journal of
Bioinnovation, 9(3):300-305.
• Sujatha Thankeswaran Parvathy, Binay Kumar Singh, Vijai Pal Bhadana and Tilak
Raj Sharma. (2019). CRISPR-Cas9: Editing the Entangled Patent Dispute. Acta
Scientific Agriculture, 3 (5) : 63
• Sujatha, T.P. (2018) Versatile roles of ubiquitous Calcium-dependent protein kinases
(CDPKs) in plants. Journal of Oilseeds Research. 35 (1): 1-11. NAAS rating: 5.02
• Sujatha. T.P. (2012). Genetic engineering of safflower for molecular farming, Journal
of Oilseeds Research, 29:186-189.
Number of Books/Book chapters : 4
Books
• Sujatha, T.P, Sudhir Kumar, Avinash Pandey, Arun Kumar, Adesh Kumar and Gyan
Prakash Mishra. (2018). Model short and essay type questions and answers in
Biotechnology. pp 119, 1st edition. Weser Books Publications, Germany. ISBN: 978-
3-96492-077-5.
Book Chapters
• Sarkar, B., Chowdhury, A.R., Sujatha, T.P., Bhadana, V.P., Sharma, T.R. and
Pattanayak, A. (2022). Selenium Nanoparticles for Agricultural Crops In: Singh, P.,
Anam., Srivastava, T.K and Verma R.R. (eds), Nanoparticles Applications in
Agriculture, Imprint Scientific Publishers, New Delhi. pp180
• Parvathy, S.T. (2024). Genome Editing: A Safe Alternative to Genetic Engineering of
Crops. In: Tiwari, S., Koul, B. (eds) Genetic Engineering of Crop Plants for Food and
Health Security. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3119-0_14
• Parvathy, S.T., Sheela, M.N. (2024). Genetic Modification of Tropical Root and Tuber
Crops: Prospects and Perspectives. In: Tiwari, S., Koul, B. (eds) Genetic Engineering
of Crop Plants for Food and Health Security. Springer, Singapore.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3119-0_6
12. Number of Technical Bulletins (Add list): 9
Newsletter
• Sujatha T.P., MD. Imran Ahmad, B.K Singh, Rishikesh Kumar, Madan Kumar, Sudhir
Kumar, Avinash Pandey, V.P. Bhadana, R. Srinivasan and T.R.Sharma. (2018).
Genome Editing using CRISPR-Cas9: Another bandwagon or an essential tool for
genetic improvement? ICAR-IIAB Newsletter, July-December 2018 Issue.
• Sujatha. T.P. (2017). Bisexuality in castor flowers alters with temperature. IIOR
Newsletter, 23 (3&4) July-September issue.
• Sujatha, T. Parvathy, M.A. Raoof and R.D Prasad (2013). In vitro sporulation of grey
rot pathogen of castor and development of a screening method for Botrytis grey rot
under artificial epiphytotic conditions. DOR Newsletter, 19 (1):8
Policy Brief
• Sujatha, T.P., Senthilkumar, K.M., Krishna Radhika, N and Sangeetha, B. G. (2023).
Strategies and Policies for Biotechnology Research in Tropical Root and Tuber Crops,
Policy Brief, ICAR-CTCRI, 8 p
Technical Bulletin
• Avinash Pandey, Sudhir Kumar, Rishikesh Kumar, Sujatha, T.P, Madan Kumar,
Binay. K. Singh and V.P. Bhadana. (2018). “Technical bulletin on Rice cultivation in
Jharkhand. ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Garhkhatanga,
Ranchi – 834 010, Jharkhand, India.
Training manual
• Sujatha. T.P. (2012). Functional genomics for Candidate gene discovery, In Training
manual of ICAR sponsored Winter School (December 1-21, 2012) on "Molecular
Breeding Approaches for genetic enhancement in oilseed crops, pp. 16-23.
Popular/Technical Article
• Sujatha.T. Parvathy (2015).The Golden Mathematics of Life. Science Reporter
(NISCAIR), 52 (1): 20-25.
• Sujatha.T.Parvathy (2015).Science in the Kitchen. Science Reporter (NISCAIR),
52(3): 20-24.
• Parvathy S.T and S.S. Amma (2024). Tropical Root and Tuber Crops Treasures
from the Soil. Science Reporter (NISCAIR), 61(06): 48-51.
Awards
Professional
• Received Best Oral Presentation award for presenting research paper: Bisexuality
precedes unisexuality and alters with temperature in castor (Ricinus communis L)
flowers” 2nd International conference on Food and Agriculture 2018, March 29-31,
Dhanbad, Jharkhand (Authors: Sujatha Thankeswaran Parvathy, Amala Joseph
Prabhakaran and Adala Vishnuvardhan Reddy)
• Received Young Scientist Award for contribution to field of Agricultural
Biotechnology in 2nd National Conference on Doubling Farmers Income for
Sustainable and Harmonious Agriculture DISHA 2018, 11-12 August 2018, ICAR-
IINRG, Ranchi. Participated and presented paper on “Differentially Expressed Genes
involved in sex determination in Castor”.
• Assistant editor, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Springer,
• Qualified as NABL assessor from 2023.
• Fellow of Indian Society of Oilseeds Research (ISOR), January 2023
Academic
• Secured I rank in M.Sc Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (
TNAU) at university level. Awarded M.S. Swaminathan Prize for Best student in
Biotechnology.
• Awarded Ammani Ammal endowment prize for M.Sc academic performance.
• Secured II rank in B.Sc (Agriculture), Kerala Agricultural University at University
level.
• Qualified the ARS-NET examination in Agricultural Biotechnology of 2010 with all
India ranking of 2 and joined the Agricultural Research Service (ICAR) as Scientist
(Agricultural Biotechnology) in 2011.
• Qualified the CSIR-UGC-NET-JRF of 2001 and 2003 and awarded Junior Research
Fellowship (2004 to 2006) and Senior Research Fellowship from (2006 to 2008) by
CSIR, India.
• Qualified the all India Ph.D entrance examination (Molecular Biology and
Biotechnology) conducted by ICAR for admission to IARI with a ranking of 3 in 2003
and IARI studentship
• Qualified the all India M.Sc Biotechnology entrance examination conducted by JNU
(Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) with a ranking of 3 and awarded the JNU
merit scholarship for M.Sc ( Biotechnology).
• Qualified the GATE examination, 2001
• Qualified the all India ICAR M.Sc entrance examination (Plant Sciences) with JRF and
a ranking of 38. Obtained admission to M.Sc microbiology at G.B Pant University of
Agriculture and Technology, Pant Nagar, UP.
• Awarded the Kerala Agricultural University merit scholarship for all the 4 years.
Other Achievements
• Selected for National Merit Scholarship based on Pre-Degree marks (Ist position in
Group II at college level).
• Awarded A.S. Menon Gold Medal for securing top marks in ICSE exam at school level.
