UTTAM KUMAR

About

Founder and Director of Astralyn Agro (OPC) Pvt. Ltd Company. ([email protected])
Area of interest is provide service for precision filed Phenotyping for biotic and abiotic stresses in multiple environments, Quality seed production, crop health monitoring and advisory.
In addition to this, consultancy is provided to seed company for developing in-house breeding program.

Employment

• Astralyn Agro (OPC) Pvt. Ltd Founder and Director
  2023 - Present
• Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA) Wheat Breeder
  2014 - 2023
• International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Wheat Breeder
  2013 - 2014
• The Energy and Resources Institute Researcher
  2009 - 2012
• Institute for Plant genetics and Crop plant Research (IPK) post doc
  2006 - 2009

Education

• Banaras Hindu University Ph.D.
  2001 - 2005
• Chaudhary Charan Singh University Post Graduate (M.Sc.)
  1999 - 2001

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (133)

• Genome wide association studies and expression analyses identify candidate genes for spot blotch resistance in bread wheat
  Theoretical and Applied Genetics 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-026-05362-y
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• Trade‐offs between early planting and yellow rust resistance in wheat: Insights from screening experiments in the Indo‐Gangetic plain
  Crop Science 2025 DOI: 10.1002/csc2.21442
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• Does vapor pressure deficit matter for wheat yield simulation under well-watered conditions?
  Ssrn 2025 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5703694
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• Molecular markers for the identification of BNI capacity in chromosome addition lines and their use in marker-assisted breeding
  Euphytica 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s10681-025-03624-2
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• Deciding the Targets: Crops and Nutrients
  2024 DOI: 10.1201/9781032690636-2
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• Advances and opportunities in unraveling cold-tolerance mechanisms in the world's primary staple food crops
  Plant Genome 2024 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20402
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• Comparative evaluation of sublethal doses of different insecticides on the ovipositional behavior of whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) in Brinjal
  Journal of King Saud University Science 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.jksus.2023.103070
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• Deciding the Targets: Crops and Nutrients
  Biofortification for Nutrient Rich Crops 2024
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• Dissecting root system architecture traits in durum wheat–goatgrass (Triticum durum–Aegilops speltoides) backcross introgression lines
  Plant Breeding 2024 DOI: 10.1111/pbr.13179
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• Documentation of multi-pathotype durable resistance in exotic wheat genotypes to deadly stripe and leaf rust diseases
  Cereal Research Communications 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s42976-023-00364-8
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