Associate Professor (Plant Breeding)

Department of Rice,

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University,

Coimbatore-641003

Office: 91-422-2474967

09486442137

Fax:     91-422-6611415

Email: rajisundar_93@yahoo.co.in

rajisundar93@gmail.com

Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 

Rice breeding 

Ploidy breeding

Principles of cytogenetics

Basic & Molecular genetics

Principles of Genetics

Basic concepts in laboratory techniques

Germplasm maintenance

Breeding for rice grain quality

Breeding biotic stress resistance

Breeding for biofortification in rice

AICRIP – Rice

Multilocation evaluation of germplasm in rice – DRR project 

Rice biofortification with enhanced iron and zinc in high yielding non-basmati cultivars through marker assisted breeding and transgenic approaches – phase II (GOI-DBT)

Evolution of rice varieties with special reference to fine grain quality and pests and disease resistance

Involved in the release of short duration rice  variety CO 47, medium duration rice varieties viz., CO (R) 48, CO (R) 49 and CO (R) 50 and rice hybrids CORH 3, CORH 4 

Rajeswari,S and N.Nadarajan.1993. Genetic variability studies in rice crosses involving cytoplasmic male sterile lines. Oryza,30:111-115.

Rajeswari,S. and N.M.Ramaswamy.1999. Pollen tube pathway studies in interspecific crosses of sesame. Crop Improvement Journal. 26(1): 34-37.

Rajeswari,S.and N.M.Ramaswamy. 2004. Pollen tube growth and embryology of ovule  abortion in Sesamum alatum and Sesamum indicum crosses. J.Genet.& Breed. 58: 113-118.

Rajeswari,S.and N.M.Ramaswamy. 2004. Pollen tube growth and embryology of ovule  abortion in Sesamum alatum and Sesamum indicum crosses. J.Genet.& Breed. 58: 113-118.

Subashri M.,  S. Robin , KK. Vinod,  S. Rajeswari , K. Mohanasundaram,  T.S. Raveendran. 2008. Trait identification and QTL validation for reproductive stagedrought resistance in rice using selective genotyping of near flowering RILs. Euphytica. 291-305

S. Rajeswari., V.Thiruvengadam and  N.M. Ramaswamy. 2010. Production of interspecific hybrids between Sesamum alatum Thonn and Sesamum indicum L. through ovule culture and screening for phyllody disease resistance. South African Journal of Botany 76 : 252–258.

Melissa A. Fitzgerald, Christine J. Bergman, Adoracion P. Resurreccion, Jürgen Möller, Rosario Jimenez, Russell F. Reinke, Margrit Martin,…Rajeswari Sivakami……. and Christian Mestres.2009. Addressing the Dilemmas of Measuring Amylose in Rice. Cereal Chem. 86(5):492–498

Rajeswari,S.,S.Robin,R.Chandirakala,N.Premalatha and S.Muthuramu.2010.Genetic analysis and character association of quality in rice.Oryza.,Vol.47,No.2 : 86-90.

Shadakshari,T.V.,V.Ravichandran,T.Kalaimagal,S.Rajeswari,M.B.Boranayaka,H.B.Mahesh and H.S.Ravikumar.2010. Effect of water stress on growth,water relations and gas exchange parameters in Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill). Int.J.Agri.Sci.Vol.I:329-340 

Pandian S.S., S. Robin, K.K. Vinod, S. Rajeswari, S. Manonmani, K.S. Subramanian,R. Saraswathi, A.P.M. Kirubhakaran.2011. Influence of intrinsic soil factors on genotype-by environment interactions governing micronutrient content of milled rice grains. Aust. J. Crop Sci.  5(13):1737-1744.

Manonmani,S., M. Umadevi, R. Pushpam, S. Robin, S. Rajeswari and K. Thiyagarajan. 2012. Evaluation of floral and morphological traits in CMS lines of Hybrid rice. Madras Agric. J. 99 (1-3): 5-7

Rajeswari,S., S. Robin, K. Mohanasundaram, K. Thiyagarajan,S. Manonmani, N. Kumaravadivel, R. Pushpam, D. Malarvizhi,R. Rabindran, S. Suresh, Subbalakshmi Loganadhan and T.S. Raveendran.2012. CO(R) 49: A High yielding medium

duration fine grain rice variety for Tamil Nadu. Madras Agric. J., 99 (4-6): 237-239