Gautam Kumar

Illustrates the changing climate to be the most challenging factor for crop productivity and the global food security. To explore the physiological and molecular background of multiple environmental stress resistance in crop plants, which can be used in developing stress tolerant varieties of crops. He also emphasizes the importance of taking such more attempts for exploiting the stress affected environment of the country to meet the growing demand of increasing population"

• Publications:
1. Kumar A, Basu S, Kumar G (2021) Evaluating the effect of seed-priming for improving arsenic tolerance in rice. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology (Accepted)
2. Basu S, Kumari S, Kumar P, Rajwanshi R, Kumar G (2021) Redox imbalance impedes photosynthetic activity in rice by disrupting cellular membrane integrity and induces programmed cell death under submergence. Physiologia Plantarum (Accepted)
3. Basu S, Kumari S, Kumar A, Shahid R, Kumar S, Kumar G (2021) Nitro-oxidative stress induces formation of root cortical aerenchyma in rice under drought osmotic stress. Physiologia Plantarum (Accepted)
4. Sahana Basu, Gautam Kumar, Nitu Kumari, Surbhi Kumari, Shashi Shekhar, Santosh Kumar Ravi Rajwanshi (2020) Reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species induce lysigenous aerenchyma formation through programmed cell death in rice roots under submergence. Environmental and Experimental Botany
5. Sahana Basu, Alok Kumar, Ibtesham Benazir, Gautam Kumar (2020) Reassessing the role of ion homeostasis for improving salinity tolerance in crop plants. Physiologia Plantarum
6. Gautam Kumar, Manjari Mishra, Silas Wungrampha, , Sneh Lata Singla‑Pareek, Ashwani Pareek (2020) How do rice seedlings of landrace Pokkali survive in saline fields after transplantation? Physiology, biochemistry, and photosynthesis. Photosynthesis Research
7. Santosh Kumar, Sharad Kumar Dwivedi, Sahana Basu, Gautam Kumar, J.S. Mishra,Tanmay Kumar Koley, K.K. Rao, A.K. Choudhary, Surajit Mondal, Sanjeev Kumar, Narayan Bhakta, B.P. Bhatt, Ranjit Kumar Paul, Arvind Kumar (2020) Anatomical, agro-morphological and physiological changes in rice under cumulative and stage specific drought conditions prevailed in eastern region of India. Field Crop Research. (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2019.107658)
8. Sharad Dwivedi, Sahana Basu, Santosh Kumar, Surbhi Kumari, Alok Kumar, Sneha Jha, J Mishra, B Bhatt and Gautam Kumar (2019) Enhanced antioxidant enzyme activities in developing anther contributes to heat stress alleviation and sustains grain yield in wheat. Functional Plant Biology, Accepted 08 July 2019
9. Santosh Kumar Mishra, Nitish Kumar, Gautam Kumar, Tara Kashav, Krishna Prakash (2018) Recombinant human interferon regulatory factor-1 (IRF-1) protein expression and solubilisation study in E. coli. Molecular biology reports. Vol. 45, Issue 5, p 1367-1374.
10. Sharad Dwivedi, Gautam Kumar, Sahana Basu, S Kumar, KK Rao, AK Choudhary (2018). Physiological and molecular aspects of heat tolerance in wheat. SABRAO Journal of Breeding & Genetics. Vol. 50 Issue 2, p192-216.
11. Kamlesh Kant Nutan, Gautam Kumar, Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek, Ashwani Pareek (2018). A Salt Overly Sensitive Pathway Member from Brassica juncea BjSOS3 can functionally complement ΔAtsos3 in Arabidopsis. Current Genomics. DOI: 10.2174/1389202918666170228133621
12. Sahana Basu Ranjan Kumar Giri, Ibtesham Benazir, Santosh Kumar, Ravi Rajwanshi, Sharad Kumar Dwivedi, Gautam Kumar (2017) Comprehensive physiological analyses and reactive oxygen species profiling in drought tolerant rice genotypes under salinity stress. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, Volume 23, Issue 4, pp 837–850
13. S.K. Dwivedia, Sahana Basu, Santosh Kumar, Gautam Kumar, Ved Prakash, Sanjeev Kumar, J.S. Mishra, B.P. Bhatt, N. Malviya, G.P.Singh, A. Arora (2017). Heat stress induced impairment of starch mobilisation regulatespollen viability and grain yield in wheat: Study in Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains. Field Crop Research. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2017.03.006
14. Charanpreet Kaur, Gautam Kumar, Suminder Kaur, Mohammad Wahid Ansari, Ashwani Pareek, S. K. Sopory, Sneh L. Singla-Pareek (2015) Molecular cloning and characterization of salt overly sensitive gene promoter from Brassica juncea (BjSOS2) Molecular Biology Report (DOI 10.1007/s11033-015-3851-4)
15. Gautam Kumar, Praveen Soni, Neelam Soda, Sneh L. Singla-Pareek and Ashwani Pareek (2013) Salt overly sensitive pathway members are influenced by diurnal rhythm in rice. Plant Signaling and Behaviour. 8:7 (eLocation ID: e24738)
16. Gautam Kumar, Hemant Ritturaj Kushwaha, Sumita Kumari, Rohit Joshi, Ratna Karan, Vaishali Panjabi-Sabharwal, Sneh L Singla-Pareek and Ashwani Pareek (2012) Clustered metallothionein genes are co-regulated in rice and overexpression of OsMT1e confers multiple abiotic stress tolerance via ROS scavenging. BMC Plant Biology (doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-12-107)
17. Gautam Kumar, Hemant Ritturaj Kushwaha, Sneh L Singla-Pareek and Ashwani Pareek (2012) Cloning, structural and expression analysis of OsSOS2 in contrasting cultivars of rice under salinity stress. Genes, Genomes, Genomics. 6(Special Issue 1), 34-41.
18. Kushwaha HR, Kumar G, Verma PK, Singla-Pareek SL, Pareek A. (2011) Analysis of a salinity induced BjSOS3 protein from Brassica indicate it to be structurally and functionally related to its ortholog from Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 49(9):996-1004.
19. Kumar G, Purty RS, Singla-Pareek S and Pareek A (2009) Maintenance of stress related transcripts in tolerant cultivar at a level higher than sensitive one appears to be a conserved salinity response among plants. Plant Signaling and Behaviour. 4:5 431-434.
20. Kumar G, Purty RS, Sharma MP, Singla-Pareek S and Pareek A (2009). Physiological responses among Brassica species under salinity stress show strong correlation with transcript abundance for SOS pathway related genes. Journal of Plant Physiology. 166: 507-520.
21. Purty RS, Kumar G, Singla-Pareek SL and Pareek A (2008) Invited contribution Towards Salinity Tolerance in Brassica: an Overview, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants: 14:15-22.
• Patent:
1. Method for Enhancing Regeneration Frequency of Brassica species and Medium therefor” Indian Patent Appn. no. 1682/DEL/2008, International [PCT] application No.PCT/IN2009/000402.2. Hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene Isolated from Indica Rice IR64, and Clones Produced Thereby” Indian Patent Application No. 1896/DEL/2008
2. Hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene Isolated from Indica Rice IR64, and Clones Produced Thereby” Indian Patent Application No. 1896/DEL/2008
3. Hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene Isolated from Indica Rice IR64, and Clones Produced Thereby” Patent 299477 granted in India on 31st July 2018.
4. International [PCT] application No. PCT/IN2009/000444. National phase applications filed in several countries [granted on 12 January 2016 with USPTO number US 9,234,189 B2]
5. Hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene Isolated from Indica Rice IR64, and Clones Produced Thereby” granted in Phillippines; PH 1-2011-500293 on 11 Feb. 2016.
6. Hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene Isolated from Indica Rice IR64, and Clones Produced Thereby” ZL 2009 8 0131254.4 granted in China on 22 Jun. 2016.
7. Hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene Isolated from Indica Rice IR64, and Clones Produced Thereby” EP 2350284 granted in Europe on 14 Mar. 2018.
8. A method for cloning a hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene and an expression vector comprising the hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene; VN 1-2011-00649 granted in Vietnam on 28 Jun. 2018.
9. Hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene Isolated from Indica Rice IR64, and Clones Produced Thereby” DE 602009051271.4 DE/EP 2350284 validated in Germany.
10. Hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene Isolated from Indica Rice IR64, and Clones Produced Thereby” ES/EP 2350284 validated in Spain.
11. Hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene Isolated from Indica Rice IR64, and Clones Produced Thereby” FR/EP 2350284 validated in France.
12. Hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene Isolated from Indica Rice IR64, and Clones Produced Thereby” NL/EP 2350284 validated in Netherland.
13. Hybrid-type Histidine Kinase Gene Isolated from Indica Rice IR64, and Clones Produced Thereby” UK/EP 2350284 validated in United Kingdom.
• Book Chapter:
1. Sahana Basu, Gautam Kumar (2020) Plant microbe interaction for changing endophytic colonization to improve plant productivity New and future developments in microbial biotechnology and bioengineering: phytomicrobiome for sustainable agriculture, p149-157, Elsevier, Amsterdam
2. S Basu, G Kumar, S Chhabra, R Prasad (2020) Role of soil microbes in biogeochemical cycle for enhancing soil fertility New and future developments in microbial biotechnology and bioengineering: phytomicrobiome for sustainable agriculture, p149-157, Elsevier, Amsterdam
3. Sahana Basu, Gautam Kumar (2020) Nitrogen Fixation in a Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis: The Roots of a Success Story, Plant Microbe Symbiosis, p35-53, Springer Nature, Singapore
4. Sahana Basu, Gautam Kumar (2020) Stress Signalling in the Phytomicrobiome: Breadth and Potential Phyto-Microbiome in Stress Regulation, p245-268, Springer Nature, Singapore
5. P Singh, S Basu, G Kumar (2018) Polyamines Metabolism: A Way Ahead for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants. Biochemical, Physiological and Molecular Avenues for Combating Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants, p39-55, Academic Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
6. Sahana Basu and Gautam Kumar (2017). Strategies to Retard Postharvest Pericarp Browning in Lychee Fruit. 265-279. Springer Nature, Singapore
7. Gill SS, Kumar G, Pareek A, Sharma PC, and Tuteja N (2012) Mustard: Approaches for Crop Improvement and Abiotic Stress Tolerance, In: Improving Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stress (Volume 2)

• Awards:
1. 2018, First Poster Award in International Conference Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU, Varanasi
2. 2017, Bharat Vikas Award National Institutes of Self Reliance, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
3. 2016, SURE Young Scientist Award-2015 for outstanding contribution in the field of Plant physiology and Biochemistry, by the Society for Upliftment of Rural Economy Varanasi (UP) India
4. 2016, First Poster Award in National Conference on “Rural Livelihood Security through Innovative Agri-entrepreneurship (RLSIAe)” 12 - 13 March, ICAR-CPRI, Patna
5. 2012, Young Scientist Travel Award by DST, Government of India to participate in Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance II, Vienna, Austria, 22th -25th February, 2012
6. 2010, First Poster Award in Indo-US Workshop on Plant Genomic in Crop Improvement with Reference To Biotic And Abiotic Stresses, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India 25th -27th February 2010.
7. 2009, International travel grants Award by CSIR, Government of India to participate in 6th International Rice Genetic Symposium, Manila, Philippines, and 16th -19th November 2009.
8. 2010, Meritorious students in Life Sciences Awarded Senior Research Fellowship by The University Grants Commission, Govt. of India.
9. 2007-09, Meritorious students in Life Sciences Awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by The University Grants Commission, Govt. of India.
• Projects:
Ongoing
1. “Evaluating the impact of concomitant high temperature and drought stress on reproductive development in rice genotypes of Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains” granted by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Core Research Grant, Govt. of India, New Delhi [2019-2022]
Completed
2. “Comprehensive study on drought tolerance mechanism in rice cultivars of Eastern India with a focus on primary level of stress perception” Start-up grant for Young Scientists, SERB, Govt. of India, New Delhi [2015-18]
3. “Genetic Improvement of Makhana (Euryale ferox Salisbury) through Gamma Radiation” Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Govt. of India, Mumbai [2014-17]
4. “Impact of salinity on plant physiology and ionic variations in different cultivars of Rice in Eastern region of India” UGC –Start-up grant, Govt. of India [2013-15]

Teaching courses
1. Plant Pathology and Applied Plant Science (BSc-Bed.)
2. Plant physiology and Developmental Biology (BSc-Bed.)
3. Cell Biology (M.Sc.)
4. Metabolism (MSc.)
5. Plant Genetic Engineering (M.Sc.)
6. Physiology of Plant System (M.Sc.)
7. Fundamental Research and Methodology (Ph.D.)
8. Scope and Techniques of Research in Biological Sciences (Ph.D.)
9. Practical’s in Life Sciences

Collaborators
1. ICAR research complex for eastern region, Patna
2. ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi
3. Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi
4. Plant Molecular Biology, ICGEB, New Delhi
5. Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU, Varanasi
6. Assam University, Silchar

University administration
1. Coordinator of Life Science Programme
2. Head in Charge of Department of Life Science
3. Member of Academic Council of the Central University of South Bihar
4. Chairman and Convener of Board of Studies for the Department of Life Science
5. Member Secretary of Department Research Degree Committee (DRDC) for the Department of Life Science
6. Member of Board of Studies for the Department of Biotechnology
7. Member of Research Advisory Committee for the Department of Biotechnology
8. Member of Community Development Cell of the Central University of South Bihar
9. Special Invitee in University Admission, Teaching and Evaluation Committee (UATEC)
10. Member of Board of Examiner’s for the Department of Life Science
11. Chairman of Department Purchase committee
12. Member of Department Purchase committee
13. Member of Anti-ragging squad for CUSB campus