Govind Ballabh Pant University

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Dr. S.K. Tewari
Head,
Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding,
College of Agriculture

Contacts
+91-5944-233879, 233242 (O), +91-9411781685, +91-7500241465 (M)
+91-5944-233473
sktgpb[at]gmail[dot]com
agpst[at]gbpuat[dot]ac[dot]in

About Us

Inception of Department of Plant Breeding was held in 1960 with the aim to impart teaching, research and extension in plant breeding (name transformed to Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding in 1976). The department has played a pivotal role in ushering the Green Revolution in India by developing landmark varieties of wheat, rice, maize, pulses, oilseeds, forage, sugarcane and other crops. Till the year 2021, 264 varieties have been developed and commercially released in various crops. Thirteen crop varieties have been ranked as “Land-Mark Varieties” at the country level. Department facilitated registration of 3 farmers Varieties with the PPV&FRA. One of the most outstanding impacts of the breeding programme has been the massive seed production of various crops and “Pantnagar Seeds” is the most popular brand among the farmers of the country.

The Department has well-knit under graduate (U.G.) and post graduate (P.G.) programmes with updated and modern course curricula as per the ICAR guidelines. A broad range of carefully designed courses complimented by lectures in other departments appropriately address the academic needs of the students. The Department has excellent facilities for teaching various courses in Genetics & Plant Breeding, Biotechnology and Seed Technology as required for undergraduate and post-graduate degree programmes. Department has been graced by distinguished faculty, four faculty members have been honored with NAAS Fellowship. Excellent facilities for the thesis and research to students are available in the major crops. There are 12 well-equipped laboratories in the department for teaching and research work. Currently in addition to 13 All India Coordinated Research Projects (ACRIP) on different crops funded by ICAR and 9 ad-hoc projects funded by different funding agencies viz., DBT, DST, ICAR, NBPGR, DAC/PPV&FRA, CGIAR, NOVOD etc. are under implementation.

VISION:

To impart quality education in field the of Genetics & Plant Breeding to UG and PG students and to develop high yielding crop Varieties with biotic, abiotic stress resistance, climate resilient and high quality.

MISSION

To impart quality teaching in Genetics and Plant Breeding related subjects in UG and PG levels.

To guide quality research to M.Sc. and Ph.D. students in the field of Genetics & Plant breeding.

To collect, evaluate, maintain and characterize the genetic resources of field crops

To evolve superior varieties/ hybrids of different crops with high yield, quality, biotic and abiotic stresses using classical and molecular tools

To ensure quality seed production of seed chain of notified varieties

To impart capacity building to the students and farmers through trainings and guidance.

MANDATE

Teaching:

To run postgraduate programme (M. Sc. Ag. and Ph.D.) in the field of Genetics & Plant Breeding.

To contribute actively in the under-graduate programme (B.Sc. Ag) of the college.

Research:

To develop high yielding biotic (disease and pest) and abiotic (heat and drought) stress resistance/tolerance, and high product value having varieties of cereals, oilseeds, pulses, millets, forage and sugarcane crops with the integration of classical and molecular breeding approaches.

To evaluate, catalogue, preserve and protect the germplasm of different crop plants.

To conduct high quality research with the integration of cutting edge technologies like genomics and bioinformatics.

Extension:

To demonstrate the impact of Improved Varieties and Technologies over Farmer’s Practices through organizing “Front Line Demonstrations” in all the crops to popularize the new and improved crop varieties.

To organize the awareness-cum-Training Programmes for farmers in the field of Seed Production, Plant Variety Protection and Intellectual Property Rights.

Academic Programmes & Seats:

Degree	No. of Seats		Total
	Uttarakhand domicile	ICAR
M.Sc. Ag (Genetics & Plant Breeding)	12	4	16
Ph.D. (Genetics & Plant Breeding)	6	2	8

Functional laboratories in the department

UG genetics Lab

UG biotechnology Lab

Cytogenetics and molecular markers lab

Tissue culture and genetic transformation lab

Wheat grain quality and molecular markers lab

Rice quality lab

Maize quality lab

Sorghum quality lab

Pulses quality lab

Oilseeds quality lab

Soybean quality lab

Sugarcane quality lab

Dr. Salil K. Tewari

Professor & Head

+91-9411781685, +91-9027452224

sktgpb[at]gmail[dot]com
agpst[at]gbpuat[dot]ac[dot]in

Dr. A.K. Singh

Professor

+91-9412438893

singhak[dot]cfha[at]gmail[dot]com

Dr. Virendra Singh

Professor

+91-9410198570

vstomar57[at]gmail[dot]com
singhv_t[at]yahoo[dot]com

Dr. R.K. Panwar

Professor

+91-9411159751

rkpanwar[dot]pantnagar[at]gmail[dot]com

Dr. B.B. Bandyopadhyay

Professor

+91-7895585027

bbbandyopadhyay[at]rediffmail[dot]com

Dr. J.P. Jaiswal

Professor

+91-7579145670

jpj[dot]gbpu[at]gmail[dot]com

Dr. Indra Deo

Professor

+91-9411324848

idpandey2005[at]rediffmail[dot]com

Dr. S.K. Verma

Professor

+91-9412141008

sk_pantvarsity[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]in

Dr. P.S. Shukla
(On deputation)

Professor

+91-9412106536

ps[dot]shukla[at]rediffmail[dot]com

Dr. A.S. Jeena

Professor

+91-9412120767

dr[dot]asjeena[at]gmail[dot]com

Dr. M.K. Nautiyal

Professor

+91-9411398516

adbspe[at]yahoo[dot]com

Dr. N.K. Singh

Professor

+91-9412909645

narendraksingh2[at]rediffmail[dot]com

Dr. Birendra Prasad

Professor

+91-9411398516

prasadbsst[at]gmail[dot]com

Dr. P.K. Pandey

Professor

+91-9411377438

drpradeepkpandey[at]gmail[dot]com

Dr. D.C. Baskheti

Professor

+91-9412120982

dcbaskheti[at]gmail[dot]com

Dr. M.K. Karnwal

Senior Research Officer

+91-9410188039

karan[dot]mk30[at]gmail[dot]com

Dr. Swati

Senior Research Officer

+91-9410118597

swatigpb[at]gmail[dot]com

Dr. Anil Kumar

Senior Research Officer

+91-9457663269

anilsirohi_1[at]yahoo[dot]in

Dr. Usha Pant

Junior Research Officer

+91-9411597520

ushabhattgph[at]rediffmail[dot]com

Faculty Awards/Honours

AICRP on Rice received Golden Jubilee Best Centre Award 2015 by ICAR during 50th Annual Group Meeting of ACRIP-Rice held at Indian Institute of Rice Research, Rajendra Nagar, Hyderabad from April 11 to 15, 2015.

AICRP on Rapeseed-Mustard received Best Centre Award by ICAR during 20th Annual Group Meeting of AICRP-RM held at S.D. Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar (Gujarat) from July 5-7, 2013.

AICRP on Sorghum received Best Centre Award 2010 by ICAR during 41st Annual Group Meet of ACRIP-Sorghum held at Uinversity of Agriculture Sciences, Dharwad from April 15 to 17, 2011.

Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding received Department Excellence Award 2013 of College of Agriculture, GBPUAT, Pantnagar.

Dr. J.P. Jaiswal was honored with Faculty Excellence Award 2013 of College of Agriculture, GBPUAT, Pantnagar.

Dr. H.S. Chawla was honored with Faculty Excellence Award 2014 of College of Agriculture, GBPUAT, Pantnagar.

Dr. N.K. Singh was honored with Faculty Excellence Award 2014 of College of Agriculture, GBPUAT, Pantnagar.

Dr. H.S. Chawla delivered Prof. F.C. Steward Memorial Lecture in 35th Annual Meeting of PTCA (India) & Natl. Symp. on Advances in Plant Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, March 10-12, 2014.

Dr. Salil K. Tewari was conferred with “Fellow of Confederation of Horticulture Associations of India” during International Conference on Water Quality and Management for Climate Resilient Agriculture held at Jalgaon , May 28-31, 2013

Dr. Salil K. Tewari Co-Chaired the Session in the International Conference on water quality and Management for climate resilient Agriculture held at Jalgaon , May 28-31, 2013

Dr. P.S.Shukla has been nominated memberof the Board of Management, JNKVV, Adhartal, Jabalpur, M.P.

विश्वविद्यालय द्वारा विकसित फसलों की उन्नत किस्में

Five Decades of Soyabean Research at Pantnagar (1976-2016). For Details Click Here

Research Projects:

Coordinated Projects:

Title	Funding Agency	P.I./ Co-PI
All India Coordinated Project on Wheat & Barley Improvement	ICAR	Dr. J.P. Jaiswal, Dr. Swati, Dr. Anil Kumar
All India Coordinated Project on Rice Improvement	ICAR	Dr. I.D. Pandey, Dr. M.K. Nautyal, Dr. D.C. Baskheti
All India Coordinated Project on Maize Improvement	ICAR	Dr. N.K. Singh
All India Coordinated Project on Rapeseed-Mustard Improvement	ICAR	Dr. Usha Pant
All India Coordinated Project on Soybean Improvement	ICAR	Dr. M.K. Karnwal
All India Coordinated Project on Sorghum Improvement	ICAR	Dr. P.K. Pandey
All India Coordinated Project on Forage Crops Improvement	ICAR	Dr. Birendra Prasad
All India Coordinated Project on Pigeonpea Improvement	ICAR	Dr. R.K. Panwar, Dr. S.K. Verma
All India Coordinated Project on Chickpea Improvement	ICAR	Dr. R.K. Panwar, Dr. Anju Arora
All India Coordinated Project on MULLaRP Improvement	ICAR	Dr. R.K. Panwar, Dr. S.K. Verma
All India Coordinated Project on Sugarcane Improvement	ICAR	Dr. A.S. Jeena
All India Coordinated Project on Seed Technology Improvement	ICAR	Dr. M.K. Karnwal

Books:

Roy, D. 2010. Biotechnology. Narosa Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi & Alpha Science, U.K.

Roy, D. 2012. Plant Breeding- A Biometrical Approach. Narosa Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi & alpha Science, U.K.

Roy, D. 2012. Biometrial Genetics- Analysis of Variation. Narosa Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi & Alpha Science, U.K

Prasad, B. and Kumar, S. 2013. Reshaping Technology for Agricultural Development. Satish Serial Publishing House, New Delhi, pp 466.

Kumar, S. and Prasad, B. 201) Modern Technology for Sustainable Agriculture. New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, pp 390.

Kumar, S., Prasad, B., Pushpanjali and Bahuguna, A. 2013 Agricultural Sustainability and Approaches. Biotech Books, New Delhi, pp 439.

Prasad, B. and Bahuguna, A. Agricultural Technology – A new paradigms Biotech Books, New Delhi-2

Shukla, P.S. and Prasad, B. 2015. Advances in Seed Sciences and Technology, Biotech Books,New Delhi-2

Tewari, S.K.Sah,V.K., Singh, V. and Dubey, A. 2015.Souvenir cum Abstracts – National Seminar on Holistic Development of Agroforestry: Potential and Policy Issues. Agroforestry Research Centre, GBP

Technical Bulletin

Chawla, H.S., Shrotria P.K., Khulbe, R.K., Singh,Y.V. 2011. A Decade of varietal Development Research. Published by Directorate of Experiment Station, GBPUA&T, Pantnagar.

Tewari, S.K., Kaushal, R. and Misra, N.P. 2011. Vavharik Baans Utpadan (in Hindi). Published by Directorate of Publication, GBPUA&T, Pantnagar

Ongoing Extension Activities:

Front Line Demonstrations (FLDs) are being organized in wheat, rice, maize, pulses, oilseeds, sugarcane crops to demonstrate the impact of improved varieties in different growing situations. In some crops they are being integrated with resource conservation technologies as well as fertilizer management.

Awareness-cum-Training Programmes are organized for farmers in the field of Seed Production, Plant Variety Protection and Intellectual Property Rights.

All the crop breeders interact with farmers face to face during farmers fair organized by the University.

Lectures are also delivered by crop breeders for the benefit of farmers during the trainings organized by Directorate of Extension Education.

Radio talks are delivered to popularize new varieties and also on seed production technologies.

Popular articles are also published to popularize the improved technologies among the farmers

Seminar/Workshop/Training/Symposium

S.No.	Title of the of Seminar/Workshop/Training/Symposium	Organized by
1.	National Seminar on “Holistic Development of Agroforestry: Potential and Policy Issues” organized on February 13-14, 2015.	Dr. S.K. Tewari
2.	ICAR sponsored 21 days summer school on “New Paradigms in Heterosis Breeding: Conventional and Molecular Approaches“, 10-30 Sept., 2014.	Dr H.S. Chawla
3.	ICAR sponsored 21 days winter school on “Changing climatic conditions:Issues and breeding strategies for abiotic stress tolerance in plants” from Feb 11 to March 3, 2014.	Dr H.S. Chawla
4.	One day NRDC sponsored Training on “Harnessing Intellectual Property and its Management for Growth and Prosperity‘ Organized by Intellectual Property Management Centre, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Jan 25, 2014.	Dr. M.K. Karnwal
5.	IICAR sponsored 10 days short course on “New Dimensions in quality seed production technology with special reference to hybrid seed production of field and vegetable crops, IPR and PPV & FR Act” held from Feb 18 to 27, 2013.	Dr H.S. Chawla
6.	One day Awareness and sensitization programme on PPV&FR Act, 2001, Organized by Genetics & Plant Breeding Deptt, G.B. Pant Univ. of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, 9th March, 2013.	Dr. P.K. Shrotria
7.	One day Awareness and sensitization programme on PPV&FR Act, 2001, Organized by Genetics & Plant Breeding Deptt, G.B. Pant Univ. of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, 9th March, 2013.	Dr. P.K. Shrotria

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