Sanjay Kumar Singh

Sanjay Kumar Singh is deputy director General (Horticultural Science) at ICAR, India. His research contributions include development of commercial protocol for micropropagation and bio-hardening using arbuscular mycorrhizae in horticultural crops like grape, citrus, pomegranate, and their rootstocks for growing in saline conditions; micropropagation protocols in mango, guava, papaya, apple, custard apple, rose, carnation, gladiolus, lilium, chrysanthemum etc. He has identified and released four promising seedless grape hybrids (Pusa Aditi, Pusa Trishar, Pusa Swarnika, and Pusa Purple Seedless) and two varieties each in mango (Pusa Deepshikha and Pusa Manohari) and guava (Pusa Aarushi 7 Pusa Pratiksha). He is currently working on transcriptomics and functional genomics of the mango fruit. Dr. Singh has published over 275 research papers, 13 books, and 55 book chapters. He is a member of the International Society of Horticultural Science (Belgium) and life-member of over 45 national scientific societies and academies.