brrm1406

Scientist
Areas of Interest: 

My name is Bharat Raj Meena. I borne on 10th July 1988 at village Pithpur, district-Baran, Rajasthan. I have done my matriculation from Adarsh Vidhya Mandir Chhabra, Baran, Rajasthan in 2003. I passed higher secondary in 2005 have physics, chemistry and biology as core subjects. I have done my graduation from the Agricultural college Bapatla, ANGRAU, Hyderabad in 2011. I did my post-graduation from Indian Institute of Agricultural Research, Pusa Campus New Delhi in 2013

Currently we are working on Bio-prospecting of microorganisms associated with vegetables against plant pathogens. In this area we are mainly focusing on development of microbial bio-formulation and modules against the major vegetable pest.

We are also working on different inoculation and screening techniques for the evaluation of vegetable germplasms against plant pathogens. Currently our main focus is on early and late blight of tomato, collar rot of Basella and banded leaf and sheath blight of sweat corn and baby corn sweet corn.

    • ICAR-UG-AIEEA-National talent scholarship for under graduate programme, 2007
    • ICAR-PG -AIEEA- Junior research fellow for M.Sc. 2011
    • IARI fellowship for PhD programme
    • Qualified ICAR NET in discipline of plant pathology
    • Qualified ARS with 2nd rank in discipline of plant pathology
    • Life membership of Indian Society of Vegetable Research (ISVS), IIVR, Varanasi
    • Life member in Indian Phyto-Pathological Society (IPS), New Delhi
Fellowship: 
  • ICAR-UG-AIEEA-National talent scholarship for under graduate programme, 2007
  • ICAR-PG -AIEEA- Junior research fellow for M.Sc. 2011
  • IARI fellowship for PhD programme
Publications: 

Research papers:

  1. Tripathi AN, Pandey KK, Meena BR, Rai AB, Singh B, 2017. An emerging threat of Phytophthora infestans causing late blight of tomato in Uttar Pradesh, India.  New Disease Reports. 35, 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5197/j.2044-0588.2017.035.014
  2. K Singh, DR Choudhary, BR Meena, SK Khirbat and LS Rajput factor effecting disease development of fruit rot of chilli caused by Colletotrichum capsici annals of plant protection sciences 372-374/25(2)
  3. AN Tripathi, KK Pandey, M Manjunath1, BR Meena, AB Rai and B Singh (2017) Morphological characterization, cross infectivity andchemo-sensitivity of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum isolates towards bio-agent and new molecules of fungicides. Vegetable Science 44(1): 103-106.
  4. B.R Meena, K Nagendran, Tripathi, S. Kumari, V Sagar, N. Gupta, A.B. Rai and B. Singh (2018). First Report of Characoal Rot Caused by Macrophomina phaseolina in Basella alba L. in India. Plant Disease, https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-01-18-0152-PDN
  5. Nagendran Krishnan, Shweta Kumari, Vikas Dubey, Awadhesh Bahadur Rai, Bharat Raj Meena, Achuit Kumar Singh, Manimurugan Chinnappa, and Bijendra Singh (2019) First report of natural occurrence of watermelon bud necrosis virus (WBNV) in round melon (Praecitrullus fistulosus (Stocks) Pangalo) in India. Plant disease https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-08-18-1449-PDN
  6. A. Chaurasial, B. R. Meena, A. N. Tripathi, K. K. Pandey, A. B. Rai and B. Singh (2018) Actinomycetes: an unexplored microorganisms for plant growthpromotion and biocontrol in vegetable crops. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 34:132