Profile
FNASc, FASc, FNA, JC Bose Fellow National Bioscience Award, Tata Innovation Fellowship, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award
Current Focus Areas
Genome analysis of crops, Root development, Abiotic stress tolerance
Selected Publications
1. Francis A, Singh NP, Singh M, Sharma P, Gayacharan, Kumar Durgesh, Basu U, Bajaj D, Varshney N, Joshi DC, Semwal DP, Tyagi V, Wankhede D, Bharadwaj R, Singh AK, Parida SK, Chattopadhyay D (2023) The ricebean genome provides insight into Vigna genome evolution and facilitates genetic enhancement. Plant Biotechnology Journal 21: 1522-1524
2. Dwivedi V, Pal L, Singh S, Singh NP, Parida SK and Chattopadhyay D (2023) The chickpea WIP2 gene underlying a major QTL contributes to lateral root development. Journal of Experimental Botany 75 (2), 642-657. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad171
3. Francis A, Ghosh S, Tyagi K, Prakasham V, Rani M, Singh NP, Pradhan A, Sundaram RM, Priyanka C, Laha GS, Kannan C, Prasad MS, Chattopadhyay D*, Jha G* (2023) Evolution of pathogenicity-associated genes in Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IA by genome duplication and transposon-mediated gene function alterations. BMC Biology doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-023-01526-0 (* co-corresponding author)
4. Khandal H, Gupta SK, Dwivedi V, Mandal D, Sharma NK, Vishwakarma NK, Pal L, Choudhary M, Francis A, Malakar P, Singh NP, Sharma K, Sinharoy S, Singh NP, Sharma R, Chattopadhyay D. (2020) Root-specific expression of chickpea cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase 6 leads to enhanced root growth, drought tolerance and yield without compromising nodulation. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 18:2225-2240
5. Khandal H, Singh AP, Chattopadhyay D (2020) The MicroRNA397b-LACCASE2 module regulates root lignification under water and phosphate deficiency. Plant Physiology 182:1387-1403