21-11-2024
Nurturing Diversity, Resilience, Livelihood & Industrial Inputs
Designation: Senior Scientist (Plant Breeding)
Qualification: M.Sc. (Ag.) in Genetics & Plant Breeding from G.B.P.U.A. & T, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, Ph.D. in Genetics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute
Address: Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Maize Research PAU Campus Ludhiana 141 004 (INDIA)
Email: ak.das@icar.gov.in, das.myself@gmail.com
Mobile: +91 9968384019
Work experience
Area of interest
Currently involved in the project “Genetic Enhancement of White Maize for food purpose” as a PI, with the objectives to identify heterotic pattern of white maize germplasm, development of outstanding hybrids and assessment the chapatti making quality of white maize. As Co-PI also involved in strengthening and diversification of sweet corn germplasm and enhancement of QPM Germplasm. Analysis of starch diversity and digestibility in maize is also another important research area of interest.
Most significant achievements (in last five years)
Publications in last five years
Research papers
| Author(s) | Title | Name of Journal | Year |
| Das A K, Muthusamy V, Zunjare R U, Baveja A, Chauhan H S, Bhat J S, Guleria S K, Kumar B, Saha S, Hossain F | Genetic variability for kernel tocopherols and haplotype analysis of γ-tocopherol methyl transferase (vte4) gene among exotic-and indigenous-maize inbreds | Journal of Food Composition and Analysis | 2020 |
| Das AK, Chhabra R, Muthusamy V, Chauhan HS, Zunjare RU, Hossain F. | Identification of SNP and InDel variations in the promoter and 5′ untranslated regions of γ-tocopherol methyl transferase (ZmVTE4) affecting higher accumulation of α-tocopherol in maize kernel. | The Crop Journal
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2019 |
| Das AK, Muthusamy V, Zunjare RU, Chauhan HS, Sharma PK, Bhat JS, Guleria SK, Saha S, Hossain F. | Genetic variability-, genotype × environment interactions-and combining ability-analyses of kernel tocopherols among maize genotypes possessing novel allele of γ-tocopherol methyl transferase (ZmVTE4). | Journal of Cereal Science | 2019 |
| Das AK, Jaiswal SK, Muthusamy V, Zunjare RU, Chauhan HS, Chand G, Saha S, Hossain F. | Molecular diversity and genetic variability of kernel tocopherols among maize inbreds possessing favourable haplotypes of γ-tocopherol methyl transferase (ZmVTE4). | Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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2018 |
| Anil Kumar Cholla, Pradyumn Kumar, Subhash Chander, Abhijit Kumar Das, Suby SB, Sunil Chandra Dubey and JC Sekhar. | Identification of key damage parameters and plant morphological traits associated with Chilo partellus resistance in maize (Zea mays L.). | Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies. | 2019 |
| Mukri G, Kumar R, Rajendran A, Kumar B, Hooda KS, Karjagi CG, Singh V, Jat SL, Das AK, Sekhar JC, Singh SB. | Strategic selection of white maize inbred lines for tropical adaptation and their utilization in developing stable, medium to long duration maize hybrids.. | Maydica
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2018 |
| Kumar B, Guleria SK, Khanorkar SM, Dubey RB, Patel J, Kumar V, Parihar CM, Jat SL, Singh V, Yatish KR, Das AK. | Selection indices to identify maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids adapted under drought-stress and drought-free conditions in a tropical climate. | Crop and Pasture Science
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2016 |
| Kumar B, Hooda KS, Gogoi R, Kumar V, Kumar S, Abhishek A, Bhati P, Sekhar JC, Yathish KR, Singh V, Das AK | Inheritance study and stable sources of maydis leaf blight (Cochliobolus heterostrophus) resistance in tropical maize germplasm. | Cereal Research Communications | 2016 |
| Sarkar M, Singh DK, Lohani M, Das AK, Ojha S. | Exploitation of heterosis and combining ability for earliness and vegetative traits in ridge gourd [luffa acutangula (roxb.) L.]. | International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Biotechnology | 2015 |
| Ramesh Kumar, G. K. Chikkappa, S. B. Singh, Ganapati Mukri, J. Kaul, A. K. Das, D. Sravani, D. S. Olak and D. Bhatia | Multivariate Analysis for Yield and Its Component Traits in Experimental Maize Hybrids. | Journal of Agricultural Science | 2017 |
Books chapter/Reports/Chapters/General articles etc
| Title | Author’s Name | Publisher | Year |
| Maize. In Singh, Mohar, Bisht, Ishwari Singh, Dutta and Manoranjan (Eds.), Broadening the Genetic Base of Grain Cereals. | Firoz Hossain , Vignesh Muthusamy , Jayant S. Bhat , Shailendra K. Jha , Rajkumar Zunjare , Abhijit Das , Konsam Sarika , and Rajesh Kumar. 2017. DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-3613-9 | Springer | 2017 |
Training manual
| Title | Author’s Name | Publisher | Year |
| Principles and practices of seed production in maize. In seed production and quality evaluation | Firoz Hossain, Vignesh M., Rajkumar U. Zunjare, Abhijit K. Das, Konsam Sarika, Brijesh Mehta, Sudipta Basu1 and Jayant S. Bhat | Division of Seed Science and Technology,
ICAR-IARI Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India. |
2018 |
| Genomics-assisted selection in maize: Specialty traits. In Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Crop Improvement | Firoz Hossain, Vignesh Muthusamy, Rajkumar U. Zunjare, Brijesh K. Mehta, Aanchal Baveja, Hema S. Chauhan, Rashmi Chhabra, Abhijit K. Das, Konsam Sarika and Jayant S. Bhat | Division of Genetics, ICAR-IARI, Pusa Campus, New Delhi-110012, India. | 2018 |
| Quality enhancement in sweet corn through marker-assisted selection. In Molecular breeding for higher productivity, quality, food colorants, nutraceuticals and bioactive health compounds in vegetable crops | Firoz Hossain, Vignesh Muthusamy, Rajkumar, U. Zunjare, Brijesh K. Mehta, Rashmi Chhabra, Hema S. Chauhan, Aanchal Baveja, Abhijit K. Das, Konsam Sarika and Jayant S. Bhat | Division of Vegetable Science
Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi – 110012, India |
2018 |
| Genetic Enhancement of Nutritional Quality in Maize using Marker Assisted Selection. In Application of Marker Assisted Selection and Transgenic Development for Crop Improvement | Firoz Hossain, Vignesh Muthusamy, Jayant S. Bhat, Abhijit Das, Konsam Sarika, Rajkumar Zunjare, Ashish K. Vishwakarma, Neha Pandey, Aanchal Baveja, Rajat Goswami and Hema Singh Chauhan | ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology,
Pusa Campus, New Delhi |
2016 |
Significant recognition
Research grant received