Indian Institute of Pulses Research

Profile of Dr. R. Jagadeeswaran

Name	:	Dr. R. Jagadeeswaran
Designation	:	Scientist
Email	:	iari.nema@gmail.com, r.jagadeeswaran@icar.gov.in
Telephone (Office)	:	+91-512-2572464
Mobile No.	:	+91 8400147435
Date of joining ICAR	:	20th April, 2010
Discipline and specialization	:	Nematology (Agriculture)- Biological control of plant parasitic nematodes in pulses.
Training/advance exposure in the area of work	:	Participated in the training programme on “Researchers’training-IV: Data analysis using SAS” of the National Agricultural Innovation Project Strengthening Statistical Computing for NARS” organized at Consortium Partner, IVRI, Izzatnagar 21-26 Feb,2011. Participated in the ICAR sponsored short course on “Molecular and Genome Tools for Crop Improvement” from 27th June to 6th July, 2011 in the Division of Crop Improvement, IIPR, Kanpur. Participated in the training course on “Production Protocol of Bio agents & Bio pesticides and Quality Assessment and Quality Management of Bio pesticides” held from 10.12.2012-30.12.2012 in National Institute of Plant Health Management, Hyderabad. Participated in CAFT programme “Computational and Statistical Advances in Bio informatics for Omics Data” from 21 Jan to 10 Feb. 2014 in IASRI, New Delhi. Participated in the training course on Advances in Microscopy organised at ICAR CIRCOT, Mumbai from January 17 to 19, 2019.

Potential strains of various biological control agents of plant parasitic nematodes from pulse rhizosphere have been identified for nematode management.
Purpureocillium lilacinum (IIPR-Pl-11), Trichoderma harzianum (IIPR-Th-64), T. asperellum (IIPR-Ta-31), Bacillus cereus (IIPR-Bc-14), Pseudomonas fluorescence (IIPR-Pf-4), Streptomyces ginkgonis (IIPR:KR01:03).

Development of consortium of Nematode bio control agents.
Profiling of Host-specificity of Pasteuria penetrans infecting Meloidogyne spp.

Singh B. & Jagadeeswaran R. (2014). Phytoparasitic nematodes associated with chickpea crop in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 84(10). (I028 NAAS rating 6.22).
Singh B. & Jagadeeswaran R. (2015). Important nematode problems in pulse crops and their management. Current Nematology, 26(1,2) : 109-124 (NAAS rating:3.55).
Soil sickness due to nematodes and its management through RCTs. Bansa Singh and R. Jagadeeswaran in RESOURCE CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGY IN PULSES by P.K. Ghosh, Narendra Kumar, M.S. Venkatesh, K.K. Hazra & N. Nadarajan, 2014.

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