VIGNESH DR M
Fellow, Elected 2020
CITATION
Dr. Vignesh Muthusamy did his PhD in the year 2012 from Indian
Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. Presently,
he is Scientist (Senior Scale) at Maize Genetics Unit, Division of Genetics,
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.
Dr. Muthusamy has significantly contributed in the field of Genetics
and Plant Breeding; and is amongst the
pioneer researchers to use the genomic tools for improving nutritional quality and
specialty traits in maize. He has integrated both conventional and molecular
breeding in development of ten biofortified maize hybrids with multi-nutrients
like provitamin-A, lysine and tryptophan. The biofortified hybrids will prove
to be landmark in alleviating malnutrition.He has also contributed notably in
development of two shrunken-2 based
sweet corn hybrids and one male sterile based baby corn hybrid. His research
effortson basic genetic studies of various nutritional quality and specialty
corn traits have led to the development of several novel maize genetic
resources with combination of different nutritional quality and specialty
traits; and the outcome is very well
evident from over 82 high impact research publications and high citation index.
Dr. Muthusamy has received many prestigious awards like 2018-Maize-Asia
Youth Innovators Award of CIMMYT, Fellow of ISGPB, Pran Vohra Award of ISCA,
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis of ICAR, Merit Medal for
PhD of IARI and NR Bhat Memorial Award for best PhD paper of ISGPB. He is handling several externally funded
projects sponsored by DBT, DST and ICAR. He is also actively contributing in PG teaching and has guided 5 M.Sc.
students and guiding 1 M.Sc. &5 PhD students. He is also contributing as a
reviewer in journal of international repute like Critical Reviews in Food
Science and Nutrition, Food Chemistry, Journal of Cereal Science, Frontiers in
Plant Science, Frontiers in Genetics, Gene, Journal of Food Biochemistry, Australian
Plant Pathology, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, Indian Journal of
Genetics and Plant Breeding etc.,