Dr. D Prasath

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Name	Dr. D Prasath
Designation	Project Coordinator, AICRP on Spices
Discipline	Horticulture
Qualification	Ph.D
Specialisation	Horticulture
Contact	Prasath.D@icar.gov.in
Areas of Interest	Breeding and applied genomics
Research Experience	Twenty years’ research experience in crop improvement of horticultural crops.
Total publications	51

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Research Publications

Research Publications:

Selected publications

Prasath D, MN Venugopal, R Senthikumar and N K Leela (2009) Hybrid performance for yield and yield components in cardamom (Elettaria cardamom Maton). Euphytica 168(1): 49-60, (DOI 10.1007/s10681-008-9878-z).
Prasath D, MN Venugopal and VA Parthasarathy (2010) Inheritance of Cardamom Mosaic Virus (CdMV) resistance in Cardamom. Scientia Horticulturae 125: 539-541 (DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2010.03.018).
Prasath D, I El-Sharkawy, S Sherif, KS Tiwary, S Jayasankar (2011) Cloning and characterization of PR5 gene from Curcuma amada and Zingiber officinale in response to Ralstonia solanacearum infection, Plant Cell Reports 30(10): 1799 – 1809, DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1087-x.
Prasath D, R Karthika, NT Habeeba, EJ Suraby, OB Rosana, A Shaji, SJ Eapen, U Deshpande and M Anandaraj (2014) Comparison of the transcriptomes of ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.) and mango ginger (Curcuma amada Roxb.) in response to the bacterial wilt infection. PLoS ONE 9(6): e99731. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099731.
Prasath D, Nair RR, Anisha Babu R (2022) Effect of colchicine induced tetraploids of ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) on cytology, rhizome morphology, and essential oil content. Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Crops, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmap.2022.100422.
Prasath D, Matthews A, O’Neill WT, Aitken EAB, Chen A (2023) Fusarium yellows of ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. zingiberi is associated with cultivar-specific expression of defense-responsive genes. Pathogens 2023, 12, 141. https://doi.org/10.3390/ pathogens12010141.
Anandaraj M, D Prasath*, K Kandiannan, T John Zachariah, V Srinivasan, AK Jha, BK Singh, AK Singh, VP Pandey, SP Singh, N Shoba, JC Jana, K Ravindra Kumar, K Uma Maheswari (2014) Genotype by environment interaction effects on yield and curcumin in turmeric (Curcuma longa L.). Industrial Crops and Products, 53: 358-364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2014.01.005.
Aarthi S, J Suresh, NK Leela and D Prasath*. (2020) Multi environment testing reveals genotype-environment interaction for curcuminoids in turmeric (Curcuma longa L.). Industrial Crops and Products, 145, 112090.
Snigdha M and D Prasath* (2021) Transcriptomic analysis to reveal the differentially expressed miRNA targets and their miRNAs in response to Ralston solanacearum in ginger species. BMC Plant Biology 21, 355. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-021-03108-0.
Vidya V, Prasath D*, Snigdha M, Gobu R, Sona C, Maiti CS. 2021. Development of EST-SSR markers based on transcriptome and its validation in ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.). PLoS ONE 16(10): e0259146. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259146.

Awards

Awards:

Post-doctoral fellowship

2008-2009: BOYSCAST Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (University of Guelph, Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, Canada)
2017-2018: Endeavour Research Fellowship 2017, Government of Australia (University of Queensland, Australia)

Recognitions

Fellow-National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi (2020)
Fellow-The Horticulture Society of India, New Delhi (2019)
ICAR-Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed award 2019 for outstanding research in tribal farming systems (2020)
DP Ghosh Young Scientist Award, The Horticultural Society of India, New Delhi (2017)

Year	Award
2018	The Horticulture Society of India – Young Scientist Award
2017	Endeavour Research Fellowship 2017, Australian Government’s competitive, merit-based fellowship providing opportunities for overseas citizens to undertake research or professional development in Australia.
2016	Recognized as PG teacher (Horticulture) for post-graduate students, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Karnataka
2015	Recognized as Fellow-Indian Society for Spices, Kozhikode
2015	HS Mehta Memorial Award for Best Research Paper (poster) Karthika R, Lini TV, Rosana OB, D Prasath and M Anandaraj (2015) In silico studies on resistance (R) genes from the transcriptome of Curcuma amada and Zingiber officinale after challenge inoculation with Ralstonia solanacearum. National Symposium on Spices and Aromatic Crops (SYMSAC VIII), December 16-18, 2015, Tamil Nadu Agriculture University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
2013	National Academy of Biological Sciences (NABS) - best research paper award for the year 2012.
2012	Recognized as a research guide to P.hD., degree in the field of applied botany by Mangalore University, Mangalore, Karnataka.
2007	J S Pruthi Award, for the best research paper Venugopal MN, Prasath D and Ravindra Mulge 2006. IISR Avinash - a rhizome rot resistant and high yielding cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum Maton). Journal of Spices and Aromatic Crops 15(1), 14-18.
2006	Finalist, Young Scientists Award Programme, 93 ^rd Indian Science Congress, 3-7, January, Hyderabad.
2008-09	BOYSCAST Fellow, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
1997	Gold medalist (Kunnam Ramamurthy Iyer Award), M.Sc., (Horticulture), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

Research Projects

Research Projects:

Gen. XIX (813): Conservation, characterisation, evaluation and improvement of Zingiber and Curcuma sp. (2007-2020) [D. Prasath, K.V. Saji & S. Aarthi]
Gen. XXXIV (813): Induction of variability in ginger through induced mutation for yield and disease resistance (2012-2017) [D. Prasath, R. Ramakrishnan Nair & R. Suseela Bhai and K. Anees]
ICAR Mega Seed Project (XXXVII(813)): Production of nucleus planting materials of improved varieties of spice crops (2006-2017) [K. Kandiannan, S.J. Ankegowda, J. Rema, K.V. Saji, D. Prasath & P. Rajeev]