Plant Mutagenesis

Nitish Kumar is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India, since last 12 years. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research–Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has a wide area of research experience in the field of crop improvement using plant biotechnology and mutation breeding techniques. He has published more than 70 research articles in leading international and national journals, more than 20 book chapters, and 7 books with Springer and Taylor & Francis. Dr. Kumar is Recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2014. He has received many awards/fellowships/projects from various prestigious Indian government organizations like CSIR, DBT, ICAR and SERB-DST, BRNS-BARC, among others. He is Reviewer for various international journals and serves as Associate Editorof the journal Gene (Elsevier).

• 1. Application of Mutagenesis in food production and sustainable development.- 2. Recent Perspectives of Mutation Breeding for Crop Improvement.- 3. Mutagenesis Breeding for Drought-Tolerance and Improvement of Oil and Seed Quality in Oilseed Crops: Case of Rapeseed and Sesame.- 4. Intellectual property over mutant and gene edited plants.- 5. Genome editing based CRISPR system in crop improvement.- 6. Haploids system in mutation breeding.- 7. Use of chemical mutagens in field crop breeding.- 8. Application of somaclonal variations in crop improvements.- 9. Improvement in fruit crop plants through mutation breeding.- 10. Application of In Vitro Mutagenesis in Plant Tissue Culture for Genetic Improvement of Crop Plants.- 11. Use of Gamma Irradiation in Crop Mutation Breeding.- 12. Genetic Improvement of Rural Landraces through Mutation Research.- 13. Development of Rural Landraces through Mutation Breeding Approaches.- 14. Application of Mutagenesis and Genome editing in crop Plants.- 15. Mutagenesis- A Tool for Improving Rice Landraces.- 16. The development of improved landraces in agriculture for rural development.