Journal Articles
Book Chapters
Conference Papers
Miscellaneous

 

Journal Articles

Bidinger FR, Serraj R, Rizvi SMH, Yadav RS, and Hash CT. 2004 Comparison of drought tolerance QTL and field performance as a basis for selection of component lines for pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (l.) R. Br.] topcross pollinators. Field Crops Res. Accepted

Dwivedi SL, JH Crouch, Jayashree B, R Serraj, HK Buhariwalla, M Blair, HD Upadhyaya. 2004. Using Genomics to Exploit Legume Biodiversity in Plant Breeding. Plant Breeding Reviews (accepted).

Dwivedi SL, Upadhyaya HD, Blair M, Serraj R, Crouch JH . 2004. Using genomics to exploit legume biodiversity in plant breeding. Plant Breeding.

Fleurat-Lessard P, Michonneau P, Maeshima M, Drevon JJ and Serraj R. 2004. Tissue dependent expression of AQP1 and g-TIP aquaporins in soybean root nodules. Ann. Bot.

Green PWC, Sharma HC, Stevenson PC, and Simmonds MSJ. 2004. Susceptibility of pigeonpea and some of its wild relatives to predation by Helicoverpa armigera : implications for breeding resistant cultivars. Crop Protection .

Hall A, Blummel M, Thorpe W, Bidinger FR, and Hash CT. 2004. Sorghum and pearl millet as food-feed crops in India. Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology 4:1-15.

Hash CT, Serraj R, Rizvi SMH, Sharma A, Yadav RS, Howarth CJ, Mahalakshmi V and FR Bidinger. 2004. Drought tolerance in pearl millet—breeding, physiology and genetics. Chapter for Drought Tolerance in Cereals, edited by J-M. Ribaut, Haworth's Food Products Press, New York.

Haussmann BIG, DE Hess, GO Omanya, RT Folkertsma, BVS Reddy, M Kayentao, HG Welz, HH Geiger. 2004. Genomic regions influencing resistance to the parasitic weed Striga hermonthica in two recombinant inbred populations of sorghum.. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 109.

Jones AT, Kumar PL, Saxena KB, Kulkarni NK, Muniyappa V and Waliyar F. 2004. Sterility mosaic disease - the “green plague” of pigeonpea: advances in understanding the etiology, Transmission and control of a major virus disease. Plant Disease 88: 436-445. (Feature Article)

Kashiwagi JW, Krishnamurthy L, Upadhyaya HD and Serraj R. 2004. Genetic diversity of drought-avoidance root traits in the mini-core germplasm collection of chickpea (Cicer spp.). Euphytica

Kashiwagi J. 2004 Improvement of agricultural production and the role of research institute in India. Chemistry and Biology. 42:189-191. (Japanese).

Kumar, PL. 2004. Aceria cajani : Alien Invasive Species (datasheet). In CABI Crop Protection Compendium. CABI-Wallingford, England. CD-ROM Publication. (By invitation)

Kumar PLand Martelli GP. 2004. Pothos latent virus. In Descriptions of Plant Viruses. (Eds. Adams, M., Robinson, D.J., Jones, A.T., Boonham, N., Mumford, R. and Antoniw, J). Association of Applied Biologist, UK. CD-ROM Publication. http://www.dpvweb.net/dpv/showdpv.php?dpvno=403 (By invitation)

Kumar PL, Latha TK, Kulkarni NK, Raghavendra K, Saxena KB, Waliyar F, Rangaswamy KT, Muniyappa V, Sabitha Dorisway and Jones AT. 2004. Broad-based resistance to pigeonpea sterility mosaic disease in wild relatives of pigeonpea ( Cajanus: Phaseoleae ). Annals of Applied Biology (Accepted upon revision).

Kumar VK, Reddy KD, and Sharma HC. 2004. Expression of antixenosis and antibiosis components of resistance to the spotted stem borer, Chilo partellus in sorghum seedlings under greenhouse conditions . Zietschrift fur Angewandte fur Entomologie.

Kumar VK, Sharma HC, and Reddy KD. 2004. Antibiosis component of resistance to spotted stem borer, Chilo partellus in sorghum, Sorghum bicolor . Annals of Applied Biology .

Mace ES, HK Buhariwalla, and JH Crouch. 2004. A High Throughput DNA Extraction Protocol for Tropical Molecular Breeding Programs. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 21:459a-459h. [also available at http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ispmb/PR21-04.html]

Nalini Mallikarjuna. 2004. Hybrids between Arachis hypogaea and A. chiquitana (section Procumbentes ). Peanut Science (accepted).

Nalini Mallikarjuna, Deepak Jadhav, Keshav R Kranthi and Sandhya Kranthi. 2004. Influence of foliar chemical compounds on the development of Spodoptera litura (Fab.) on interspecific derivatives of groundnut. J. Appl. Ent. 128 (5): 321-328.

Nalini Mallikarjuna, Suresh Pande, Deepak R Jadhav, Chidvilas Sastri, and Narayan Rao J. 2004. Introgression of disease resistance genes from Arachis kempff-mercadoi into cultivated groundnut. Plant Breeding (accepted)

Purcell LC, Serraj R, Sinclair TR, and De A. 2004. Soybean N2 fixation estimates, ureide concentration, and yield responses to drought. Crop Sci. 44: 484-492.

Qi, X., TS Pittaway, S. Lindup, H Liu, E Waterman, FK Padi, CT Hash, J. Zhu MD, Reddy SV and Kumar PL. 2004. Transmission and properties of a new luteovirus associated with chickpea stunt disease in India. Current Science 86:1157-1161.

Rizvi SMH. and Serraj R. 2004. Response of transpiration and transpiration efficiency to soil drying in pearl millet cultivars. J. Exp. Bot.

Romeis J, Sharma HC, Sharma KK, Das S, and Sarmah BK. 2004 The potential of transgenic chickpeas for pest control and possible effects on non-target arthropods. Crop Protection, 23: 923-938.

Romeis J, Sharma HC, Sharma, KK., Das S and Sarmah BK. 2004. Transgenic insect-resistant chickpeas: Their potential and possible non-target effects. Crop

Serraj R and Rizvi SMH. 2004. Variation of transpiration and transpiration efficiency responses to soil drying in chickpea (Cicer arietinum). Annals of Botany.

Serraj R, Buhariwalla HK, Gaur PM, Sharma KK, and Crouch JH. 2004. Crop improvement of drought resistance in pulses: A holistic approach. Ind. J. Pulses Research (Accepted).

Serraj R, Krishnamurthy Land Upadhyaya. 2004. Screening chickpea mini-core germplasm for tolerance to salinity. International Chickpea and Pigeonpea Newsletter 11:29-32.

Serraj R, Krishnamurthy L, Kashiwagi JW, Kumar J, S Chandra, and Crouch JH. 2004. Variation in root traits of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) grown under terminal drought. Field Crops Res. 88:115-127.

Serraj R, L Krishnamurthy, JW Kashiwagi, J Kumar, S Chandra and JH Crouch. 2004. Variation in root traits of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) grown under terminal drought. Field Crops Research 88:115-127.

Serraj R, Rizvi SMH and Nigam SN. 2004. Variation of transpiration and transpiration efficiency responses to soil drying in groundnut (Arachis hypogea). Peanut Science.

Serraj R, Rizvi SMH and Sinclair TR. 2004. Crop Water Use Efficiency: A Review. Advances in Agronomy.

Sharma HC, Bhagwat MP, Pampapathy G, Sharma JP, and Ridsdill-Smith TJ. 2004. Perennial wild relatives of chickpea as potential sources of resistance to Helicoverpa armigera. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (accepted) .

Sharma HC, Sharma KK and Crouch JH. 2004. Genetic transformation of crops for insect resistance: Potential and limitations. CRC Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 23: 1-26.

Thakur RP, Rao VP., Wu, B. M., Subbarao KV, Shetty HS, Singh G, Lukose C, Panwar MS, Sereme, Paco, Hess DE, Gupta SC, Dattar VV, Panicker S, Pawar NB, Bhangale GT, and Panchbhai SD. 2004. Host resistance stability to downy mildew in pearl millet and pathogenic variability in Sclerospora graminicola. Crop Protection 23: 901-908.

Yadav RS, CT Hash, FR Bidinger, KM Devos, and CJ Howarth. 2004. Genomic regions associated with grain yield and aspects of post-flowering drought tolerance in pearl millet across stress environments and testers background. Euphytica 136: 265–277.

 

Book Chapters

Brennan JP, Bantilan MCS, Sharma HC, and Reddy BVS. 2004. Impact of ICRISAT Research on Sorghum Midge on Australian Agriculture. Impact Series No. 11. Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. (ICRISAT). 32 pp .

Crouch JH and Serraj R. 2002. DNA marker technology as a tool for genetic enhancement of drought tolerance at ICRISAT. In: International Workshop on Field screening for Drought Tolerance in Rice (ed. Saxena, N.P.), Patancheru, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.

Crouch JH, HK Buhariwalla, M Blair, E Mace, Jayashree B and R Serraj. 2004. Biotechnology-based contributions to enhancing legume productivity in resource-poor areas. Pages 47-65 in Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: Challenges and Future Prospects for Application in Tropical Agroecosystems (R. Serraj, ed.). Oxford & IBH, New Delhi, India.

Hall A, B Yoganand, JH Crouch and NG Clark . 2004. The evolving culture of science in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research: concepts for building a new architecture of innovation in agri-biotechnology. Pages 135-162 in Innovations in innovation: reflections on partnership, institutions and learning (AJ Hall, B Yoganand, RV Sulaiman and NG Clark, eds), ICRISAT, CPHP & ICAR, India.

Paterson AH, HT Stalker, M Gallo-Meagher, MD Burow, SL Dwivedi, JH Crouch and ES Mace. 2004. Genomics and genetic enhancement of peanut. Pages 97 to 109 in Legume Crop Genomes (RE Wilson, HT Stalker and EC Brummer, eds), AOCS Press, IL, USA.

Serraj R, Adu-Gyamfi J, Rupela OP and Drevon JJ. 2004. Improvement of legume productivity and role of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in cropping systems: Science Publishers , New Hampshire (USA), pp. Overcoming the physiological and agronomic limitations In: Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: Challenges and Future Prospects for Application in Tropical Agroecosystems. Ed. R. Serraj.

Serraj R, Hein L, Drevon JJ and Giller K. 2004. Biological Nitrogen Fixation for Increased Crop Productivity, Enhanced Human Health and Sustained Soil Fertility. In: Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: Challenges and Future Prospects for Application in Tropical Agroecosystems. Ed. R. Serraj. Science Publishers, New Hampshire (USA), pp.

Sharma HC, KK Sharma, N Seetharama, and JH Crouch. 2004. The utility and management of transgenic plants with Bacillus thurigiensis genes for protection from pests. Pages 53-76 in Bacillus thuringiensis: a cornerstone of modern agriculture (M Metz ed.).

Sharma HC. (ed.). 2004. Helicoverpa/Heliothis : Management Strategies for the Future. Oxford & IBH, New Delhi, India/Science Publishers Inc., Enfield, USA & Plymouth, UK. 486 pp.

Shiferaw B, Bantilan C and Serraj R. 2004. Harnessing improved BNF for the poor: assessment of technological, Policy and Institutional constraints and research needs. In: Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: Challenges and Future Prospects for Application in Tropical Agroecosystems. Ed. R. Serraj. Science Publishers, New Hampshire (USA), pp.

 

Conference Papers

Chandra S, Hutokshi K Buhariwalla, J Kashiwagi, S Harikrishna, K Rupa Sridevi, L Krishnamurthy, R Serraj and JH Crouch. 2004. Identifying QTL-linked Markers in marker-deficient Crops. In: IV th International Crop Science Conference, 26 Sept-1 Oct., Brisbane Australia (Accepted).

Chari MS, Rajashekar G, Vagmare G, Raghunath TAVS, Kumar PL, Saxena KB, Waliyar F. and Jones AT. Village-level implementation of eco-friendly IPM and IDM methods for sustainable pigeonpea production . In National Seminar on Resource Management for Sustainable Agriculture, January 28-30, 2004, Agriculture College, Bapatla, Guntur, AP, India. The Andhra Agriculture Journal 50: 482-483. [Winner Best Poster Presentation Award; Poster designed by Kumar, P.L.].

Crouch JH, Gaur PM, Buhariwalla HK, Barman P and Sharma HC. 2004. Towards molecular breeding of Helicoverpa resistance in grain legumes. Pages 313 – 334 in Helicoverpa/Heliothis: Management Strategies for the Future (Sharma, H.C., ed.). New Delhi, India: Oxford &IBH/Enfield, USA & Plymouth, UK: Science Publishers Inc.

Gowda CLL and Gaur PM. 2004. Global scenario of chickpea research - Present status and future thrusts. Pages 1-22 in Pulses in New Perspective: Proceedings of National Symposium on Pulses for Crop Diversification and Natural Resource Management, 20-22 Dec 2003, Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, India (Masood Ali, Singh BB, Shiv Kumar and Vishwadhar, eds), Kanpur, India: Indian Society of Pulses Research and development.

Gowda CLL, Reddy BVS, Rai KN, Saxena KB and Sharma HC. 2004.Public-private sector partnership- A novel institution building for supporting agricultural research and enhancing impacts. In: New Directions for a Diverse Planet: Proceedings of the 4 th International Crop Science Congress, 25 Sept to 1 Oct 2004, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Fisher, T., Turner, N., Angus, J., McIntyre, L., Robertson, M., Borrell, A., and Llyod, D., eds.). Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: http://www.cropscience.org.au . pp. 5.

Haussmann BIG, DE Hess, GO Omanya, RT Folkertsma and HH Geiger. 2004. Arresting the scourge of Striga on sorghum in Africa by combining the strengths of marker-assisted backcrossing and farmer participatory selection. Paper presented by Bettina Haussmann at the 8 th International Parasitic Weeds conference, Durban, 24-25 June 2004.

Kumar PL, Jones AT, Kimmins F and Waliyar F. 2004. An example of DFID supported natural resource research from the Crop Protection Programme: Sterility Mosaic Disease in Pigeonpea - An Overview. 2004. In Summaries of "Teach-In" Meeting Presentations at Department for International Development (DFID) to Sir David King. January 28, 2004, DFID, Palace Street, London, UK. [By invitation].

Pramod Babu K, Narayana YD, Kumar PL and Dharmaraj PS. 2004. Assessment of pigeonpea crop loss due to sterility mosaic disease in Gulbarga and Bidar districts of North Karnataka. In abstracts National Symposium on Crop Surveillance, Disease Forecasting and Management, February 19-21, 2004, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi - 110 012, India. pp55.

Raghavendra N, Kumar PL, Rangaswamy KT, Muniyappa V, Waliyar F and Jones AT. 2004.Studies on prevalence of Pigeonpea sterility mosaic virus – Bangalore isolate, and production of polyclonal antibodies In abstracts National Symposium on Crop Surveillance, Disease Forecasting and Management, February 19-21, 2004, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi - 110 012, India. pp55-56.

Reddy, VSB, Reddy BS, Kumar PL, Saxena KB, Waliyar F and Jones AT. 2004.Sustainable pigeonpea production through empowering farmers- to combat pathogens and pests in Kodangal area of Mahabubnagar District, Andhra Pradesh, India. In National Seminar on Resource Management for Sustainable Agriculture, January 28-30, 2004, Agriculture College, Bapatla, Guntur, AP, India. Abstract Andhra Agriculture Journal 50: 499. (Golden jubilee special issue).

Serraj R, Gaur PM, Krishnamurthy L, Kashiwagi J and Crouch JH. 2004.Drought management in pulse crops. Pages 471-479 in Pulses in New Perspective: Proceedings of National Symposium on Pulses for Crop Diversification and Natural Resource Management, 20-22 Dec 2003, Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, India (Masood Ali, Singh BB, Shiv Kumar and Vishwadhar, eds), Kanpur, India: Indian Society of Pulses Research and development.

Serraj S, Hash CT, Buhariwalla HK, Bidinger FR, Folkertsma R, Gaur PM, Nigam SN and Crouch JH. 2004. MAS for Crop Drought Resistance at ICRISAT: Achievements and Prospects. In Proceedings of the International Conference, Italy.

Sharma HC. 2004. Biotechnological approaches for crop improvement with special reference to host plant resistance to insects. Pages 230 – 244 in Recent Advances in Host Plant Resistance to Insects (Chhillar, B.S., Singh, R., Bhanot, J.P., and Ram, P., eds.). Hisar, Haryana, India: Center for Advanced Studies, Department of Entomology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University.

Sharma HC. 2004.Host plant resistance in insect pest management. In Pest Management (Singh, J., ed.). Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India: Department of Entomology, Benaras Hindu University

Sharma HC, Ahmad R, Ujagir R, Yadav RP, Singh R., and Ridsdill-Smith TJ . 2004. Host plant resistance to Helicoverpa: The prospects. Pages 171 – 213 in Helicoverpa/Heliothis: Management Strategies for the Future (Sharma, H.C., ed.). New Delhi, India: Oxford &IBH/Enfield, USA & Plymouth, UK: Science Publishers Inc.

Sharma HC, and Crouch JH. 2004. Molecular marker assisted selection: A novel approach for host plant resistance to insects in grain legumes. In: National Symposium on Pulses for Crop Diversification and Natural Resource Management, 20 - 22 Dec 2003. Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India: Indian Institute for Pulses Research.

Sharma HC, Dhillon MK, Naresh JS, Ram Singh, Pampapathy G, and Reddy BVS. 2004. Influence of cytoplasmic male-sterility on the expression of resistance to insects in sorghum in New Directions for a Diverse Planet: Proceedings of the 4 th International Crop Science Congress, 25 Sept to 1 Oct 2004, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Fisher, T., Turner, N., Angus, J., McIntyre, L., Robertson, M., Borrell, A., and Llyod, D., eds.). Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: http;//www.cropscience.org.au.pp.6.

Sharma HC, Stevenson PC, and Gowda CLL. 2004. Strategies for Helicoverpa/Heliothis management: Prospects and problems. Pages 479 – 485 in Helicoverpa/Heliothis: Management Strategies for the Future (Sharma, H.C., ed.). New Delhi, India: Oxford &IBH/Enfield, USA & Plymouth, UK: Science Publishers Inc.

Singh RP, Rizvi SMH, Usha, Sonia and Jaiwal PK. 2004. Genetic engineering for enhancing abiotic stress tolerance . In: Focus on Biotechnology Vol 10A, Improvement Strategies of Leguminosae Biotechnology (Jaiwal, PK and Singh RP eds), Kluwer academic publisher, The Netherlands.

Stevenson PC, Green PWC, Simmonds MSJ and Sharma HC. 2004. Physical and chemical mechanisms of plant resistance to Helicoverpa : Recent Research on Chickpea and Pigeonpea. Pages 215 – 228 in Helicoverpa/Heliothis: Management Strategies for the Future (Sharma, H.C., ed.). New Delhi, India: Oxford &IBH/Enfield, USA & Plymouth, UK: Science Publishers Inc.

Thakur RP, Sivaramakrishna S, Kannan S, Rao VP, Hess DE, Magill CW. 2004. Genetic and pathogenic variability among isolates of Sclerospora graminicola , the downy mildew pathogen of pearl millet. Advances in Downy Mildew, Vol. 2: 179-192. Elsevier Publication.

Thakur RP and Hash CT. 2004. Biotechnology in the management of pearl millet downy mildew. Pages 247-261 in Biotechnological Approaches for the Integrated Management of Crop Diseases (Professor LV Gangawane Festschrift Volume) (Eds. Mayee, CD, Manoharachary, C, Tilak, KVBR, Mukudam, DS, and Deshpande J). Daya Publishing House, New Delhi 110035

 

Miscellaneous

Dharmaraj PS, Narayana YD., Kumar PL, Waliyar F and Jones AT. 2004. Pigeonpea sterility mosaic disease: an emerging problem in northern Karnataka. International Chickpea and Pigeonpea Newsletter 11: 47-49.

Gaur PM., GaurVK, Anita Babber, Om Gupta, Jagdish Kumar and Rao BV. 2004. JGK 1: A New Large-seeded, Short-duration, High-yielding Kabuli Chickpea Variety for Central India. International Chickpea and Pigeonpea Newsletter 11:16-18.

Gowda CLL, Gaur PM, Saxena KB, Masood Ali, Muhammad Bashir, Azizur Rahman, Neupane RK, Zong Xuxiao, Aung May Than, Samartunga H, Ketema Daba, Knights EJ and Tom Warkentin. 2004. Future Research Priorities for Chickpea and Pigeonpea Improvement. International Chickpea and Pigeonpea Newsletter 11:3-5.

Hash CT, JH Crouch and JR Witcombe. 2004. Molecular breeding for drought-prone crops – examples from pearl millet at ICRISAT. Keygene NV Workshop, 13 Jan 2004, at Plant & Animal Genome XII, Town & Country Hotel, San Diego, CA, USA.

Hash CT, Rizvi SMH, Serraj R, Bidinger FR, Vadez V, Sharma A, Howarth CJ and Yadav RS. 2004. Field assessment of baccross hybrids validates a major pearl millet drought tolerance QTL. Annual meeting of the crop science society of America, Seattle, USA.

Hash T. 2004. Molecular markers and marker-assisted selection for pearl millet in India. Page 14 in The State of Food and Agriculture 2003–04. Part I. Agricultural biotechnology: meeting the needs of the poor? (Raney, T., ed.) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Rome, Italy. International Arachis Newsletter 24. ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/006/Y5160e/Y5160e01.pdf

Kumar PL, Jones AT and Waliyar F. (Eds.). 2004. Serological and Nucleic Acid Based Methods for the Detection of Plant Viruses: Methods manual. ICRISAT, Patancheru 502 324, India, 120pp ( also on CD-ROM.

Nalini Mallikarjuna and Deepak Jadhav. 2004. Premature-precocious hybrid embryo development in an interspecific derivative between Arachis hypogaea and A. cardenasii.

Nalini Mallikarjuna. 2004. Meiotic study of intersectional hybrids between Arachis hypogaea , A. duranensis and A. diagoi with A. glabrata . International Arachis Newsletter 24.

Sharma HC. 2004. Invasive arthropods in agriculture. Problems and solutions. Edited by G.J. Hallman, and C.P. Schwalbe. Science Publishers inc., Enfield, NH, USA. 447 pp. Biological Agriculture and Horticulture 21: 418-419.