- Released 2 varieties and 4 hybrids for commercial cultivation
- Characterized 3,481 germplasm accessions
- Developed a core set of germplasm (165 accessions)
- Registered 22 germplasm accessions having important agro-economic traits with PGRC, NBPGR, New Delhi
- Developed transgenic events (Bt gene) resistant to castor semilooper and Spodoptera
- Identified 16 lines with high ricinoleic acid content (>90%)
- Identified promising lines for profuse root growth, water use efficiency and drought tolerance
- Identified resistant lines against major pests (leaf hopper, capsule borer) and diseases (Fusarium wilt, root rot)
- Constructed a consensus linkage map consisting of 1,978 SNP loci
- Developed and validated a genotyping array with more than 5,000 SNP loci
- Identified SNP markers linked to wilt resistance
- Characterized deficiency symptoms of all major, secondary and micro nutrients
- Developed region specific remunerative cropping systems, cultural practices and nutrient management practices for maximizing the productivity on a sustainable basis
- Standardized agro-techniques for rabi cultivation viz.., suitable planting time, best genotype and fertigation scheduling
- Developed IPM module to manage semilooper, spodoptera, capsule borer and leafhopper
- Developed simple, reliable and rapid artificial screening techniques for gray mold and wilt
- Released 2 varieties and 1 hybrid for commercial cultivation
- Characterized 1,496 germplasm accessions of cultivated sunflower and 570 accessions of 41 other Helianthus species
- Registered three germplasm accessions having important agro-economic traits with PGRC, NBPGR, New Delhi
- Developed line with new male sterile cytoplasm from Helianthus argophyllus
- Tagged the fertility restorer gene using SSR marker
- Identified promising lines for profuse root growth, water use efficiency and drought tolerance
- Identified lines tolerant to salinity and high Phosphorus Use Efficiency
- Identified sustainable crop sequence for sunflower (Sorghum and groundnut in kharif and sorghum and chickpea in rabi) for getting higher biological productivity and return
- Characterized deficiency symptoms of all major, secondary and micronutrients
- Developed simple, reliable and rapid artificial screening techniques for Alternaria leaf spot disease
- Identified the vector for sunflower necrosis disease and developed the management package
- Site specific nutrient management (SSNM) for sunflower-groundnut (alfisols), sunflower-chickpea (vertisols) resulted in improving the soil fertility there by reducing the fertilizer application and cost with increasing seed yield and fertilizer use efficiency.
- Long term fertilizer trial on Sorghum-Sunflower cropping system in alfisols indicate recommended NPK with 5 tons/ha FYM would result in higher yield, soil fertility, sustainability and fertilizer use efficiency
- Moisture stress from thinning to star bud stage induces leaf axil branching both in vertisols and alfisols.
- Developed sustainable integrated nutrient management practices for soybean - sunflower cropping system in Vertisols
- Standardized effective weed control measures for kharif sunflower in vertisols
- Standardized agro techniques for cultivation of sunflower in paddy fallows for vertisols and alfisols (tillage, genotype, plant population and irrigation)
- Released the first GMS based hybrid (DSH-129) in India
- Released the first high oleic variety (ISF-1) in India
- Released 2 varieties and 2 hybrids for commercial cultivation
- Characterized 6,391 germplasm accessions
- Registered five germplasm accessions with PGRC, NBPGR, New Delhi
- Identified germplasm accessions tolerant to Alternaria leaf spot, Fusarium wilt and aphids
- Developed a robust high throughput SNP based genotypic assay for marker-assisted selection of high oleic trait
- Developed genome wide SSR and SNP markers to facilitate genetic mapping of agronomically important traits
- Developed a series of mapping populations (F2/RILs/MAGIC) to facilitate genetic mapping of yield related traits, oil content and resistance to aphid
- Detected putative QTLs associated with resistance to aphid
- Successfully demonstrated the proof of concept of using heterologous orfH522 gene for induction of male sterility
- Developed three types of PTGS vectors for effective restoration of fertility in transgenic male sterile plants
- Identified deficiency symptoms for nitrogen and iron in safflower
- Developed sustainable nutrient management practices for safflower based cropping systems
- Identified suitable cultivars of safflower for varying soil depths of Vertisols
- Developed agro-techniques for improving productivity of non-spiny cultivars of safflower in Vertisols
- Developed INM practice for soybean-safflower cropping system in Vertisols
- Developed simple, reliable and rapid artificial screening techniques for Fusarium wilt disease
- Developed FT-NIR protocol for estimation of oil content & Fatty acid estimation from safflower seed