Top 10 Publications having NAAS rating 6 and above with first or corresponding author only

1. Zunjare R.U, Hossain F., Muthusamy V., Baveja A., Chauhan H.S., Bhat J.S., Saha S. and Gupta H.S. (2018). Development of biofortified maize hybrids through marker-assisted stacking of β-carotene hydroxylase, lycopene-ε-cyclase and opaque2 genes. Frontiers in Plant Science 9:178. (NAAS Rating: 10.11)
2. Zunjare R.U., Chhabra R., Hossain F., Muthusamy V. and Gupta H.S. (2018). Molecular characterization of 5�UTR of lycopene epsilon cyclase (lcyE) gene among exotic and indigenous maize inbreds for its utilization in maize biofortification. 3Biotech 8: 75. doi:10.1007/s13205-018-1100-y. (NAAS Rating: 7.50)
3. Zunjare R.U., Chhabra R., Hossain F., Muthusamy V., Baveja A. and Gupta H.S. (2017). Development and validation of multiplex-PCR assay for simultaneous detection of rare alleles of crtRB1 and lcyE governing higher accumulation of provitamin-A in maize kernel. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 27: 208�214. (NAAS Rating: 7.04)
4. Zunjare R.U., Hossain F., Muthusamy V., Baveja A., Chauhan H.S., Thirunavukkarasu N., Saha S. and Gupta H.S. (2017). Influence of rare alleles of β-carotene hydroxylase (crtRB1) and lycopene epsilon cyclase (lcyE) genes on accumulation of provitamin A carotenoids in maize kernels. Plant Breeding 136: 872�880. (NAAS Rating: 7.25)
5. Zunjare R., Hossain F., Muthusamy V., Vishwakarma A.K, Pandey N., Kumar P., Sekhar J.C., Jha S.K., Thirunavukkarasu N. and Gupta H.S. (2015). Analyses of genetic diversity among exotic- and indigenous- maize inbreds differing for responses to stored grain weevil (Sitophilus oryzae L.) infestation. Maydica 60-M28: 1�7. (NAAS Rating: 6.58)
6. Zunjare R., Hossain F., Muthusamy V., Choudhary M., Kumar P., Sekhar J.C., Guleria S.K., Singh N.K., Thirunavukkarasu N. and Gupta H.S. (2015). Popping quality attributes of popcorn hybrids in relation to weevil (Sitophilus oryzae) infestation. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 75(4): 510�513. (NAAS Rating: 6.47)
7. Zunjare R., Hossain F., Nepolean T., Muthusamy V., Jha S.K., Kumar P. and Gupta H.S. (2014). Evaluation of specialty corn inbreds for responses to stored grain weevil (Sitophilus oryzae L.) infestation. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 74 (Suppl.): 564-567. (NAAS Rating: 6.47)

Patent / Technologies / Methodologies / System etc. (Upto Five) :

1. Baby corn hybrids: Pusa HM4 male sterile baby corn hybrid (Shishu) (2021), Pusa Baby Corn Hybrid-1 (2020)

2. QPM + provitamin A rich hybrids: Pusa Biofortified Maize-1 (2021), Pusa HQPM1 Improved hybrid (2021),Pusa HQPM5 Improved hybrid (2020), Pusa HQPM7 Improved hybrid (2020), Pusa Vivek QPM9 Improved (2017)

3. Provitamin A hybrid: Pusa VH27 Improved (2020)

4. Sweet corn hybrids: Pusa Super Sweet Corn-2 (2020), Pusa Super Sweet Corn-1 (2018)

5. QPM hybrids: Pusa HM4 Improved (2017), Pusa HM8 Improved (2017), Pusa HM9 Improved (2017)

Awards / Recognitions / Fellowship (Upto Five) :

1. Award of SERB-International Research Experience (SIRE) Fellowship to visit Iowa State University, USA (2022)

2. NAAS-Young Scientist Award (2023), Fellow of Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding (2022) & ISGPB-Dr Srinivasa Ramanujam Award for Young Scientist (2022)

3. ICAR-Jawaharlal Nehru Award for P.G. Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research (2018), First Manihar Best PG Research in Maize (2020)

4. CIMMYT Full Sponsorship for 12th Asian Maize Conference, Bangkok, Thailand (2014)

5. UGC-Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for Ph.D. (2012), ICAR-Junior Research Fellowship with first rank (2010)