Profile
Dr. Sudesh Kumar Yadav is an outstanding scientist and contributed significantly in the area of biotechnology, metabolic engineering, bioprocessing and nanobiology for crop improvement and production of value-added molecules. He has extensively worked on understanding the regulation of key metabolic pathways of crops like tea, stevia, rice and horsegram as well as developed several technologies for value added products from agricultural waste biomass. He has already published more than 200 research papers, 17 patents, 3 books, 28000 citations, 55 h-index. Listed by Stanford University among the top 2% scientists of the world. He is fellow of national academies such as The National Academy of Sciences, India; National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He is recipient of S. Ramachandran National Bioscience Award, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award, and “Recognition Award’ by NAAS. He has also been conferred INSA-Young Scientist Award, 2008; NASI-Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award, 2009; CSIR-Young Scientist Award, 2010; BOYSCAST Fellowship, 2008 by DST, GoI; NAAS-Associate, 2013; Prof. Hira Lal Chakravarty Memorial Award by ISCA, 2012-2013; Haryana Yuva Vigyan Ratna Award, Haryana Govt., 2011-12.
Current Focus Areas
• Metabolic engineering of plants and microbes for value added products • Enzyme/ microbes based bioprocesses for value added products from biomass • Synthetic biology and omics approaches for improving metabolic pathways or enzymatic proteins. • Use of nanobiology approach in improving enzyme based bioprocesses for biomass conversion.
Selected Publications
• Bhatia Simran, Purohit Anjali, Yadav Sudesh Kumar*. Kinetic Characterization of a Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenase Reveals a Unique Specificity for Depolymerization at β-O-4 of Lignin Compounds. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2023, 11, 11, 4398-4408 • Khubber S., Chaturvedi K., Thakur N., Sharma N., Yadav Sudesh Kumar*. Low-methoxyl pectin stabilizes low-fat set yoghurt and improves their physicochemical properties, rheology, microstructure and sensory liking. Food Hydrocolloids, 2021, 111, 106240 • Rai Shushil Kumar, Kumar Varun, Yadav Sudesh Kumar*. Development of recyclable magnetic cross-linked enzyme aggregates for the synthesis of high value rare sugar d-tagatose in aqueous phase catalysis. Catal. Sci. Technol., 2021, 11: 2186-94 • Rai Shushil Kumar, Narnoliya Lokesh Kumar, Sangwan Rajender S, Yadav Sudesh Kumar*. Self-Assembled Hybrid Nanoflowers of Manganese Phosphate and l-Arabinose Isomerase: A Stable and Recyclable Nanobiocatalyst for Equilibrium Level Conversion of d-Galactose to d-Tagatose. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018. 6:6296–6304. • Baljinder Singh Kauldhar, Sudesh Kumar Yadav*. Turning waste to wealth: A direct process for recovery of nano-silica and lignin from paddy straw agro-waste. J Cleaner Production 2018. 194:158-166