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Agricultural Chemicals      (13 scientists)

Dr Rakesh Kumar

   

Field of Specialisation : Natural Product Chemistry and Development of Agrochemicals

Dr Rakesh Kumar
Scientist

M.Sc. : Division of Agricultural Chemicals, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012

Ph.D : Division of Agricultural Chemicals, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012

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PG School, Faculty Disciplines : Agricultural Chemicals

No. of Students Guided : -    M.Sc :   -

   Ph.D :   -

Dhruba Jyoti Sarkar, Siddharth Kumar Jatav, Rakesh Kumar, Soma Das Sarkar, Simanku Borah, Ajoy Saha, Santhana Kumar Vanniaraj, Tuhin Sikdar, Basanta Kumar Das (2026). Ecological risk assessment of microplastics contamination in water, sediment and native fish species of the Brahmaputra River, India, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Volume 280, 104946 (NAAS rating: 10.4)
Siddharth Kumar Jatav, Dhruba Jyoti Sarkar, Basanta Kumar Das, Soma Das Sarkar, Santhana Kumar Vanniaraj, Rakesh Kumar & Ajoy Saha (2025). Microplastics Pollution in the Brahmaputra River and its Associated Ecosystems: a Transboundary Perspective Through Meta-Analysis, Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 236 & 672 (NAAS rating: 9.8)

Publications having NAAS rating 6 and above with first or corresponding author only

  1. Kumar, R.*, Kundu, A., Dutta, A., Saha, S., Das, A. and Bhowmik, A., 2021. Chemo-profiling of bioactive metabolites from Chaetomium globosum for biocontrol of Sclerotinia rot and plant growth promotion. Fungal biology, 125(3), pp.167-176.
  2. Kumar, R.*, Kundu, A., Dutta, A., Saha, S. and Das, A., 2020. Profiling of volatile secondary metabolites of Chaetomium globosum for potential antifungal activity against soil borne fungi. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 9(1), pp.922-927.
  3. Tripathi, K., Kaushik, P., Yadav, D.K., Kumar, R.*, Misra, S.R., Godara, R., Bashyal, B.M., Rana, V.S., Kumar, R., Yadav, J. and Shakil, N.A., 2025. Synthesis, antifungal evaluation, two‐dimensional quantitative structure–activity relationship and molecular docking studies of isoxazole derivatives as potential fungicides. Pest Management Science, 81(5), pp.2579-2597.
  4. Kumar, R.*, Kaushik, P., Tripathi, K., Godara, R., Misra, S.R., Kumar, V., Mondal, P.C., Jeetram, Pankaj, Rana, V.S. and Shanmugam, V., 2025. Green synthesis, characterization, in silico molecular docking and biological evaluation of imidazolylchalcones as promising fungicide/s and nematicide/s. BMC chemistry, 19(1), p.113.
  5. Kumar, R.*, Raza, M.B., Lenka, S., Borah, S., Yadav, A.K., Yadav, D.K., Jena, R.K., Sarkar, D.J., Singh, D., Lenka, N.K. and Kanwar, R.S., 2025. Chemometric Assessment of Anthropogenically Impacted Ancient Artificial Wetland, Bhojtal, India, for its Drinking Water Suitability and Hydrogeochemical Classification. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 236(2), p.139.
  6. Godara, R., Kaushik, P., Tripathi, K., Kumar, R.*, Rana, V.S., Kumar, R., Mandal, A., Shanmugam, V., Pankaj and Shakil, N.A., 2024. Green synthesis, structure–activity relationships, in silico molecular docking, and antifungal activities of novel prenylated chalcones. Frontiers in Chemistry, 12, p.1389848.
  7. Kumar, V., Mondal, P.C., Kumar, R.*, KAUSHIK, P., SHAKIL, N.A., GOWDA, A.A. and RANA, V.S., 2023. Composition and nematicidal activity of the essential oil from Piper longum against root knot nematode. The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 93(7), pp.774-779.
  8. Godara, R., Tripathi, K., Kumar, R.*, Kaushik, P., Rana, V.S., Kumar, R., Mandal, A., Shanmugam, V. and Shakil, N.A., 2024. Rapid synthesis and antifungal evaluation of prenylated chalcones: A structure-activity relationship and molecular docking study. Results in Chemistry, 12, p.101912.
  9. Singh, N., Sharma, R.M., Dubey, A.K., Saha, S., Awasthi, O.P., Bharadwaj, C., Sevanthi, A.M., Kumar, A., Sharma, N., Kumar, R.* and Kumar, V., 2025. Bioactive Compounds and Bitterness Properties of Newly Developed Interspecific Citrus Hybrids (Citrus maxima [Burm. f.] Osbeck× Citrus sinensis [L.] Osbeck). Horticulturae, 11(2), p.208.
  10. Kumar, R., Chandini, Kumar, R.*, Prakash, O., Kumar, R. and Pant, A.K., 2021. Chemical Signal Dissemination Through Infochemicals. In Microbial Metatranscriptomics Belowground (pp. 91-108). Singapore: Springer Singapore.

Awards / Recognitions / Fellowship (Upto Five) :

  1. DST-SERB (CII) PM fellowship for PhD 2020
  1. SPS Best MSc Thesis Award 2019
  1. ICAR PGS fellowship for MSc (JRF) 2017
  1. UGC-NFOBC fellowship in Environmental Science-2020
  1. IARI fellowship for PhD, 2019