Niranjan Ravindra Thakur

About

Dr. Niranjan Ravindra Thakur is an agricultural scientist specializing in plant breeding, genetics, and crop improvement. He is currently working as a Project Scientist 'B' in the Genetics & Plant Breeding Group at MACS - Agharkar Research Institute (an autonomous institute under DST, Govt. of India), contributing to the ICAR - All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Soybean.
He holds a Ph.D. in Genetics & Plant Breeding and has prior research experience at premier institutions, including the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). His research domain encompasses soybean (Glycine max) genetics, germplasm characterization, multi-location varietal trials, and breeding strategies aimed at yield optimization, climate resilience, and stress resistance.

Employment

• Agharkar Research Institute Project Scientist B
  2026 - Present
• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Research Fellow
  2025 - 2026
• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Research Scholar
  2021 - 2024

Education

• Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth PhD Agriculture
  2019 - 2024
• Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth MSc Agriculture
  2016 - 2019
• Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth BSc Agriculture
  2012 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (48)

• CRISPR/Cas system-mediated gene editing for disease resistance in food crops: current status and future directions
  Plant Stress 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.stress.2026.101322
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• Sustainable Crops for Future Food Security: Challenges, Innovations, and Solutions
  2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-2754-0_1
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• Induced Mutagenesis in Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) Uncovers High-Oleic Acid Mutants Genetically Distinct from the Canonical CtFAD2-1 Allele
  Agriculture 2026 DOI: 10.3390/agriculture16040431
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• Genetics of Consumer‐Preferred Morphological Traits in Contrasting Parental Crosses of Mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek)
  Plant Breeding 2025 DOI: 10.1111/pbr.70009
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• Decoding Sorghum Root System Architecture for Resource Use Efficiency and Climate Resilience Under Multifactorial Stress Conditions
  Physiologia Plantarum 2025 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.70672
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• Pre-breeding efforts through introgression of pre-harvest sprouting resistance genes from wild Vigna radiata var. sublobata into cultivated mungbean
  Frontiers in Plant Science 2025 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1689852
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• Tapping into the Potential of Underutilized Niger (Guizotia abyssinica (L. f.) Cass.) Through Breeding and Biotechnological Tools
  Agriculture 2025 DOI: 10.3390/agriculture15030350
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• Advancing Sorghum Improvement by Harnessing Genetic Diversity Through Advanced Tools and Speed Breeding
  Designing Sorghum Genome for Nextgen Agriculture 2025 DOI: 10.1201/9781003623717-2
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• Performance of multi-trait and single-trait genomic selection for grain Fe and Zn concentrations in sorghum under different breeding constraints
  Scientific Reports 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-29176-y
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• Genome-wide association study and expression of candidate genes for Fe and Zn concentration in sorghum grains
  Scientific Reports 2024 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-024-63308-0
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