Vegetable Science
Dr. Alka Verma
JRO (Vegetable Agronomist)
Research Areas and areas of interest
- Breeding garden pea, okra
- Organic vegetable farming
- Nutritional management of vegetable crops
Teaching Experience
Teaching and Research Experience: 13 years
Courses taught: to Under graduate, Post graduate and Ph. D. students
Research Projects
As PI:
- "Technological interventions for production and post-harvest processing of vegetables towards enhancing socio economic conditions of farmers in Himalayan region of Uttarakhand" by DBT
- "Bio-efficacy Evaluation of ALLWIN Gold Super Bio-stimulant in Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench))" by Ramcides Crop Science Pvt. Ltd. Chennai, Tamil Nadu
As co-PI:
- AICRP on Vegetable Crops
- AICRP on IFS (TSP)
Selected Research Papers
- Singh, U., Verma, A., Singh, J., Soni, S., Singh, M., Singh, A., & Singh, D. K. (2026). Assessment of genetic divergence in bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) germplasm using Mahalanobis’s D2 statistic for parental line selection. Vegetable Science, 53(01), 142-146. https://doi.org/10.61180/vegsci.2026.v53.i1.18
- Kumar, M., Raghav, M., Verma, A., Bhatt, L., Singh, R., Bisht, Y. S., & Rawat, A. S. (2025). Influence of nitrogen and plant spacing on edible leaf and seed yield of vegetable amaranth (Amaranthus spp. L.). Journal of Plant Nutrition, 48(20), 3502–3513. https://doi.org/10.1080/01904167.2025.2517243
- Nisha Verma, A K Prusty, Chandra Bhanu, N Ravisankar, V P Chaudhary, Alka Verma, Dinesh Kumar, P C Jat and Sunil Kumar 2025. Characterizing the diversity of tribal farming systems for preparing the apt interventions: A case study of the Western Himalayan Region. Indian Journal of Agronomy 70: S62-S67 https://doi.org/10.59797/ija.v70i.6281
- Panwar, Priyanka, Alka Verma, Dhirendra Singh, Birendra Prasad, and Gohar Taj. 2026. “Assessment of Heterosis for Yield and Associated Traits in Sponge Gourd [Luffa Cylindrica (L.) Roem.]”. PLANT CELL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 27 (7-8):112-23. https://doi.org/10.56557/pcbmb/2026/v27i7-810718.
- Bisht, Yashpal Singh; Verma Alka; Banerjee, Swadesh; Rathore, Vineeta and Singh, Dhirendra 2022. Genetic variability and trait association in organically grown genotypes in brinjal. Agric. Res Journal. https://doi.org/10.5958/2395-146X.2022.00005.9
Total Research Publications
- Total publications: 54
- Research and review papers: 23
- Book chapters: 07
- Lab manual: 01
- Popular articles: 12
Students Guided
- M. Sc.: 18
- Ph.D.: guided (04); under guidance: (02)
Membership of Professional bodies
- Indian Society of Vegetable Science, Varanasi
- Indian Academy of Horticulture Sciences, New Delhi (formerly Horticulture Society of India)