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Lakshminarayana R Vemireddy

Also known as: VLN REDDY

Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics

ORCID iD 0000-0002-9452-8492
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Dr.VLN Reddy has more than a decade of proven research experience in rice molecular genetics and breeding. Also, he is well acquainted with advanced molecular biology techniques as evident from his publications in reputed international journals. He was involved in the development of a capillary electrophoresis based microsatellite DNA profiling protocol, which facilitates quick and accurate detection and quantification of adulteration in basmati rice thereby help expand and sustain our export opportunities. He was involved in identification of several QTLs of promise pertaining to yield and its components from wild species and primitive cultivars of rice. He also identified and mapped QTLs governing important quality traits of Basmati rice and dissected a major QTL governing the grain size. He was involved in the molecular mapping of QTLs for drought and water use efficiency-related traits. Recently, he also identified and mapped alternate dwarfing gene (asd1) to widely used Dee-Gee-Woo-Gen allele of sd1 gene in rice. He has also identified evenly distributed hypervariable rice microsatellite markers that can be useful in the background selection of marker-assisted breeding in rice. Further, he demonstrated that the molecular genetic diversity of major Indian rice cultivars over the decadal periods is increasing. He has also developed DNA fingerprints for the major Indian rice cultivars. He has done his Post Doctoral Fellow at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA under “Raman Post Doctoral Fellowship” sponsored by the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi. . In addition, he also underwent three months of International training under the Institutional Development Plan of ANGRAU – NAHEP at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia on “De novo domestication of wild rice (Oryza australiensis) through gene editing by CRISPR/Cas9 for non-shattering trait”.

Employment

  • Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University Professor
    2006 - Present

Education

  • Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics PhD
    2002 - 2008

Projects & Funding

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Publications (42)