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Dr. Jyoti Prakash Singh

Name: Dr. Jyoti Prakash Singh

Designation: Scientist

Professional Experience: 6Years

Research Interest:

  1. Biotechnological Approaches towards developing abiotic stress in plants
  2. Bioprospecting of Antimicrobial Compounds
  3. Biochemical Characterization of Plants
  4. Genetic Engineering

Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=gyby5UIAAAAJ&hl=en

Contact details:

Office Address: Microbial Technology Unit II, ICAR-NBAIM

Email: jyotipsingh58@outlook.com; jyoti.singh@icar.gov.in

 

Significant recognition (Awards/Fellowships/Technologies transferred/Patents etc.):

  1. Awards
    1. Young Scientist Award, Best Poster Award
  1. Fellowships:
    1. IARI Merit Fellowship
  1. Technologies: One
  1. Patents/Copyrights granted: Nil
  1. Membership of Societies: Society of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology

On-going Projects:

Sr. No.

Project Title

Funding Agency

PI/Co-PI

Year

1

Bioprospecting Antimicrobial Peptide for Potential Application in Sustainable Agriculture

Institute Funding

PI

2021

2.

Bioprospecting cyanobacterial diversity from the Himalayan region and its potential for bioactive metabolites

production

Institute Funding

Co-PI

2020

3.

Indian Soil Microbiome Project

Institute Funding

Co-PI

2022

4.

Quantification of ecosystem services

rendered by microorganisms in

contrasting ecosystems

Institute Funding

Co-PI

2022

 

Completed Projects:

Sr. No.

Project Title

Funding Agency

PI/Co-PI

Year

1.

Establishment of Biotech-Kisan Hub at

ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally

Important Microorganisms

DBT

Co-PI

2021

2.

Expansion of Activities of Biotech-Kisan

Hub in Two Aspirational Districts (Balrampur

and Sravasti) of Uttar Pradesh

DBT

Co-PI

2021

 

Publications:

Research/Review Articles:

20

National:

8

International:

12

Book Chapters:

3

Books:

Nil

Popular Articles:

2

Bulletin:

2

Training Manual:

6

Others:

1

 

List of publications (Best 10 publications) with NAAS Rating and Impact Factor:

1. Pradhan, A., Rana, K. S., Choudhary, A. K., Bana, R. S., Thapa, S., Dash, A. K., ... & Kumar, A. (2025). Dual-crop basis residue-retained bed-planting and zinc fertilization lead to improved food-energy-water-carbon nexus in pearl millet-wheat cropping system in semi-arid agro-ecologies. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 215, 115579.

2.Narware, J., Chakma, J., Singh, S. P., Prasad, D. R., Meher, J., Singh, P., ... & Kashyap, A. S. (2025). Nanomaterial-based biosensors: a new frontier in plant pathogen detection and plant disease management. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 13, 1570318.

3.Kumar, M., Kumar, R. R., Singh, J. P., & Arora, K. (2025). Characterisation of heat-responsive novel miRNAs in wheat identified based on miRNome analysis. Annals of Arid Zone, 64(1), 45-56.

4.Singh, D., Thapa, S., Singh, J. P., Mahawar, H., Saxena, A. K., Singh, S. K., ... &Chakdar, H. (2024). Prospecting the potential of plant growth-promoting microorganisms for mitigating drought stress in crop plants. Current Microbiology, 81(3), 84.

5.Kumar, A., Das, A., Singh, D., Das, M. K., Srivastava, G. P., Singh, J. P., ... &Chakdar, H. (2023). Soil health restoration in degraded lands: A microbiological perspective. Land Degradation & Development, 34(17), 5155-5170.

6.Kashyap, A. S., Manzar, N., Nebapure, S. M., Rajawat, M. V. S., Deo, M. M., Singh, J. P., ... & Singh, D. (2022). Unraveling microbial volatile elicitors using a transparent methodology for induction of systemic resistance and regulation of antioxidant genes at expression levels in chili against bacterial wilt disease. Antioxidants, 11(2), 404.

7.Singh, D., Das, M. K., Srivastav, G. P., Verma, S., Choudhary, P., Das, S., ... & Saxena, A. K. (2022). Genetic diversity and anti-oxidative potential of Streptomyces Spp. Isolated from unexplored niches of Meghalaya, India. Current Microbiology, 79(12), 379.

8. Kumari, A., Kumar, R. R., Singh, J. P., Verma, P., Singh, G. P., &Chinnusamy, V. (2020). Characterization of the starch synthase under terminal heat stress and its effect on grain quality of wheat. 3 Biotech.

9. Singh, J. P., Kumar, R. R., Goswami, S., Rai, G. K., Sakhare, A., Kumar, S., & Praveen, S. (2019). A putative heat-responsive transcription factor (TaHD97) and its targets in wheat (Triticum aestivum) providing thermotolerance. Indian Journal of Biotechnology, 18(3).

10. Kumar, R. R., Goswami, S., Dubey, K., Singh, K., Singh, J. P., Kumar, A., ... & Praveen, S. (2019). RuBisCo activase—a catalytic chaperone involved in modulating the RuBisCo activity and heat stress-tolerance in wheat. Journal of plant biochemistry and biotechnology, 28(1), 63-75.