Name | Dr. B. Kalyana Babu |
Designation | Principal Scientist |
Discipline | Agril. Biotechnology |
Qualification | M. Sc. (Ag. Biotechnology), Ph. D (Ag. Biotechnology) |
Experience | 17 years |
Contact | b.bbu80@icar.org.in |
| Academic Identity | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8hcyhMcAAAAJ&hl=en |
Membership in Professional bodies
Life member of SOPOPRAD
Life member of National Academy of Biological Sciences
Honours & Awards
ICAR - Jawaharlal Nehru Award for outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Agricultural and Allied Sciences (Crop Sciences) - 2015
ICAR - Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award in Crop and Horticultural Sciences - 2017
Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology (SPBB) - Young Scientist Award - 2014
Best Oral Presentation - National Conference on Science of Omics for Agricultural Productivity”, GBPUA&T, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India - 2014
All India Best Research Paper Award - Society for Advancement of Human and Nature (SADHNA), Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, HP. India - 2014
Best Research Paper Award - National Academy of Biological Sciences, Chennai - Prof. G. Rangaswami Memorial NABS - 2014
DST-SERB - Young Scientist fellowship by DST start up fellowship programme – 2015
DST-SERB - International travel grant selected - 2016
Best poster at 1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress by NAAS, New Delhi – 2016
Best Oral Presentation - Indian Society for Genetics and Plant Breeding - National Symposium on Potential crops for food and nutritional security at TNAU, Coimbatore for the paper entitled “Molecular approaches for improvement of oil palm germplasm” - 2019
DST-SERB - Mentor of Young Women Scientist - 2019
Best Oral presentation (First Prize) - National Seminar on “Climate smart Agriculture for Sustaining Crop Productivity and Improving Livelihood Security at Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu - 2020.
DST-SERB - SERB Excellence for the project completed – 2021
DST-SERB-STAR Fellowship - 2022
Best oral presentation at 25th PLACROSYM - 2023
Publications
HP Bhagya, B Kalyana Babu, RK Mathur, D Ramajayam, G Ravichandran, P Anitha. 2024. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) germplasm genome-wide association analysis for the oil yield traits utilizing microsatellite markers. Industrial crops and products. 218
B Kalyana Babu, RK Mathur, G Ravichandran, P Anitha, HP Bhagya, MVB Venu. 2023. A novel QTL linked to asparagine synthetase gene for stem height increment in oil palm (E. guineensis Jacq.) identified and validated through integrated genomic approaches. Euphytica. 219 (7).
B. Kalyana Babu, R.K. Mathur, M.V.B. Venu, Sandip Shil, G. Ravichandran, P. Anitha, H. P. Bhagya. 2021. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) of major QTLs for bunch and oil yield related traits in Elaeis guineensis L. Plant Science. 305: 110810.
B. Kalyana Babu, R.K. Mathur, P. Anitha, G. Ravichandran, H. P. Bhagya. 2021. Phenomics, genomics of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.): wayforward for making sustainable and high yielding quality oil palm. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants. 27(3):587–604
B. Kalyana Babu, R.K. Mathur, G.Ravichandran, P. Anita, M.V.B. Venu. 2020. Genome wide association study (GWAS) and identification of candidate genes for yield and oil yield related traits in oil palm (Eleaeis guineensis) using SNPs by genotyping-based sequencing. Genomics. 112 (1011-1020)
B Kalyana Babu, KL Mary Rani, Sarika Sahu, RK Mathur, P Naveen Kumar, G Ravichandran,P. Anitha, HP Bhagya. 2019. Development and validation of whole genome-wide and genic microsatellite markers in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.): First microsatellite database (OpSatdb). Scientific Reports (Nature). 9, 1: 1899. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-37737-7
B. Kalyana Babu*, R. K. Mathur, G. Ravichandran, P. Anitha, M. V. B. Venu. 2019. Genome-wide association study for leaf area, rachis length and total dry weight in oil palm (Eleaeis guineensis) using genotyping by sequencing. Plos One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220626
B Kalyana Babu, RK Mathur, P Naveen Kumar, D Ramajayam, G Ravichandran, MVB Venu, S Sparjan Babu. 2017. Development, identification and validation of CAPS marker for SHELL trait which governs dura, pisifera and tenera fruit forms in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq. 12 (2): e0171933
Sood S, Kumar A, Kalyana Babu B, Gaur VS, Pandey D, Kant L and Pattnayak A. 2016. Gene Discovery and Advances in Finger Millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.] Genomics-An Important Nutri-Cereal of Future. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7: 1634.doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01634
B. Kalyana Babu, P. K. Agrawal, S. Saha, H. S. Gupta. 2015. Mapping QTLs for opaque2 modifiers influencing the tryptophan content in quality protein maize using genomic and candidate gene based SSRs of lysine and tryptophan metabolic pathway. Plant Cell Reports. 34(1), 37-45.
Projects
Inhouse projects
Biotechnological studies in oil palm (Principal Investigator)
Externally funded projects
Genomic selection for enhancement of oil quality and yield traits for their use in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) breeding programmes using whole genome SNP markers (Funding source: DST-SERB/STAR (FILE NO. STR/2021/000037)
Mapping QTLs for important physiological traits, oil yield related traits and construction oflinkage maps in oil palm using genome wide microsatellites and SNP markers (Funding source: DST-SERB) (2015-2019)
Integrated Genomics approaches for identification of genes for dwarf trait and genes expressed during callus and somatic embryogenic stages in oil palm (Funding source: ICAR under LBS award) (2019-2022)
Development of clonal seed garden through mass multiplication of high yielding elite oil palms using tissue culture (Funding source: DA & FW, Govt. of India)
