Dr. Karthika Rajendran

Designation : Assistant Professor Grade 2
School / Centre : VIT School of Agricultural Innovations And Advanced Learning
Department : VAIAL

Educational Details

University of Adelaide, Australia

PhD
Plant Sciences
Graduated in 2012

Post Doctoral Experiences

Lentil Breeding Program (ICARDA), Morocco

Research Details

Areas of Specialization
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics

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Books / Book Chapters Published Details

Title Publisher Published Year
Climate change and global rice security. In: Modern Techniques of Rice Crop Production . Springer, Singapore 2022
Legumes under Drought Stress: Plant responses, adaptive mechanisms and management strategies in relation to nitrogen fixation. In :Engineering tolerance in crop plants against abiotic stress, CRC Press 2021
Current knowledge in lentil genomics and its application for crop improvement. In: Crop Breeding: Bioinformatics and preparing for climate change CRC Press 2016
Phenotyping for problem soils. In: Phenomics in Crop Plants: Trends, options and limitations Springer, India 2015

Awards & Recognitions Details

  • • 2008: Top-up Scholarship, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG), Adela ide, Australia
  • • 2008:T he best research poster award, School Research Day, The University of Adelaide, Australia
  • • 2007: Adelaide Scholarship International, The Univer sit y o f Adelaide, Australia
  • • 2006:National Eligibility Test (NET) for Assistant professorship/lecturership in plant breeding, conducted by Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India
  • • 2002: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) merit Scholarship, TNAU, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

International Collaborations

  • Department of Agronomy, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt