Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR)

Discipline: Plant Breeding | Designation: Principal Scientist | At IIMR Since: 1996

Email: madhu@millets.res.in | Mobile: 09618099658

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Degree	Institute/ University	Year of completion	Subject(s) with major field
Ph D	IARI, New Delhi	1996	Genetics
MSc (Ag.)	UAS, Dharwad	1993	Genetics and Plant Breeding
BSc (Ag.)	UAS, Dharwad	1990	Agriculture

Employment Record & Experience (Starting from the present position)

Designation	Organization	Institution & place of posting	Period (From-to)	Duration (years, months)
Principal Scientist	ICAR	Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad	20-12-2011 to till date
Senior Scientist	ICAR	Directorate of Sorghum Research, Hyderabad	20-12-2005 to 19-12-2011	5years,11months
Scientist (Sr.scale)	ICAR	Directorate of Sorghum Research, Hyderabad	20-12-2000 to 19-12-2005	4years,11months
Scientist	ICAR	Directorate of Sorghum Research, Hyderabad	20-12-1996 to 19-12-2000	3years,11months

Development of sorghum parental lines and varieties with insect resistance
Breeding for high biomass pearl millet forage cultivars with improved quality
Trait dissection through genetic mapping, genomics and marker-assisted breeding in sorghum and pearl millet

Developed high yielding early duration hybrid, CSH23
Developed high yielding variety, CSV20
Generation and characterization of various RIL mapping populations in Sorghum
Construction of molecular maps of sorghum genome
Detection of QTLs for agronomic traits, resistance to shoot fly, foliar diseases, stay green etc.
Molecular mapping major effect genes like Trichome morphology, plant color, leaf midrib color, awn cover, seed pericarp color, bloomless in sorghum
Tagging of a gene for fertility restoration (Rf6) and epicuticular wax
Fine mapping of fertility restoration (Rf2) locus and development of a diagnostic SSR marker
Diagnostic SSR marker for genetic purity of A/B line and hybrid seed

“ICAR-Jawaharlal Nehru award for outstanding doctoral thesis research-2011” for Student thesis
Recognized as supervisor for doctoral research leading to PhD under the Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad and in Department of Botany, Andhra University, Vishakapatnam.
Best research paper award from National Academy of Biological Sciences, Chennai for “Mapping QTL for grain yield and other agronomic traits in post-rainy sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]” authored by Nagaraja Reddy R, Madhusudhana R, Murali Mohan S, Chakravarthi DVN, Mehtre SP, Seetharama N, Patil JV 2013.
DST-BOYSCAST fellowship 2002-03
Evaluator of doctoral and degree thesis from Agricultural Universities
Reviewer of National and International Journal research papers

Marker-assisted transfer of stay green QTLs in rabi sorghum: University of Queensland, QDPI Australia, ILRI and ICRISAT (through collaborative project funded by ACIAR Australia).
Association mapping for forage traits in pearl millet: ICRISAT, Hyderabad, UAS, Dharwad, IISR, Mau

Uttam, G. A., Praveen, M., Rao, Y.V., Tonapi, V.A., Madhusudhana, R. 2017. Molecular mapping and candidate gene analysis of a new epicuticular wax locus in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench). Theoretical and Applied Genetics130:2109-2125 (JrnID: T054; IF: 10.13).
Praveen, M., Uttam, A.G., Tonapi, V.A. and Madhusudhana, R. 2018. Fine mapping of Rf2, a major locus controlling pollen fertility restoration in sorghum A1 cytoplasm, encodes a PPR gene and its validation through expression analysis. Plant Breeding 137(2) :148-161 (JrnID: P086; IF: 7.34).
Kannababu, N., Rakshit, S., Madhusudhana, R., Tonapi, V.A., Das, I.K., Raghunath, K. 2017. Identification of superior parental lines for seed quality and storability through GGE biplot analysis of line x tester data in grain sorghum. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding (The) 77:278-286 (JrnID: I060; IF: 6.32).
Praveen, M., Anurag Uttam, G., Madhusudhana, R. 2016. Inheritance of fertility restoration in sorghum cytoplasmic male sterility systems. International Journal of Scientific Research 4.
Rajendrakumar, P., Hariprasanna, K., Madhusudhana, R., Umakanth, A.V., Elangovan, M. and Seetharama, N. 2017. Molecular characterization of parental lines of post-rainy sorghum using simple sequence repeat markers. J. BioSci. Biotech. 6(1): 49-57.