Our Research Projects

Quality and yield enhancement of fruit crops with bio-stimulants and microbial diversity analysis under organic farming in Sikkim, Funded by Corpus Fund-Indian Council of Agricultural Research (CF-ICAR)

Funding by Corpus Fund-Indian Council of Agricultural Research (CF-ICAR) Lead Centre: ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Sikkim Centre, Tadong, Gangtok-737102, Sikkim and ICAR-ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi

Integrating whole genome resequencing transcriptome sequencing and genome wide association analysis for allele mining of yield and quality traits in black pepper and cardamom-Funded by NASF, ICAR, New Delhi

Genetic enhancement of cross-pollinated vegetable crops (cucumber) for yield, quality and stresses-Inter-Institutional Project in collaboration with Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.

NNP (Agri-Genomic repository and Intelligent Analytical System) of ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi (Sponsored by DBT, Govt of India)- Co-Principal Investigator

Establishment of Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Agriculture- BIC at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute at New Delhi (DBT Funded Project)

Network project on Agricultural Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Subprojects: Sub-Project-I: Computational genomics guided accentuating genetic architecture of key traits in wheat and its validation (Collaboration with ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal) Sub-Project-II: Immunoreagent design, drug discovery and-omics approaches for buffalo production and reproduction (Collaboration with ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffalo, Hisar) Sub-Project-III: Genomics-assisted identification of trait-specific markers for major biotic and abiotic stresses and development of core collections of black pepper (In collaboration with ICAR-IISR, Kozhikode) Sub-Project-IV: Development of ML and ANN-based breed and individual identification system for equine population differentiation (In collaboration with ICAR-NRCE, Hisar) Sub-Project-V: Development of epsilon toxin based Novel vaccine against enterotoxaemia in goats: A bioinformatics assisted reverse vaccinology approach (In collaboration with ICAR-CIRG, Mathura)

Mainstreaming rice landraces diversity in varietal development through genome wide association studies: A model for large-scale utilization of gene bank collections of rice--Funded by DBT, Government of India