Professor and Head

Department of Rice

Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

Coimbatore – 641003

Ph (O) – 091-0422-2474967

Mobile No. 9442224409

Email – robin.tnau@gmail.com 

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

Rice Breeding 

Genome Assisted breeding for Ph.D

Breeding for abiotic stress resistance for Ph.D

Breeding for abiotic stress resistance in rice

Molecular breeding for biotic resistance in rice

Breeding medicinal varieties 

Molecular breeding for TGMS

Varietal research 

AICRIP – Rice

Developing and disseminating resilient and productive rice varieties for drought-prone environments in India (IRRI-GCP-Rockefeller Foundation)

Generation of rice varieties with RTV resistance using marker free transgenic technology (DBT-GOI)

Molecular tagging of TGMS gene for development of new two line rice hybrids (DBT-GOI)

Characterization and use of EMS induced mutants of Nagina 22 for drought resistance, yield and blast resistance for functional genomics analysis in rice (DBT-GOI)

Connecting phenotypes of drought resistance with the genotypes in the reference set of rice germplasm (IRRI-GCP)

Stress resistant rice for Africa and South Asia (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) 

“Rice biofortification with enhanced iron and zinc in high  yielding non-basmati cultivars through marker assisted  breeding and transgenic approaches” – Phase II

Metabolic and molecular profiling of aromatic rice germplasm of India for gaining insights about aroma  (GOI –DBT)

Wild rice magic – DBT-DFID-BMGF-IRRI

Swaminathan,C.,S.Robin,K.Kannan,D.Malarvizhi and C.V.Dhanakodi. 1999. Effects of eucalyptus and casurina on the yield of intercrops in agroforestry systems. Allelopathy Journal.6(2):251.

Tripathy,J.N.,J.Zhang,S.Robin, Th.T.Nguyen and H.T.Nguyen.2000. QTLs for cell membrane stability mapped in rice (Oryza sativa L.) under drought stress. Theor.Appl.Genetics.100(8):197

Zhang,J.,H.G.Zheng,A.Aarthi,G.Pantuwan,T.T.Nguyen,J.N.Tripathy,A.K.Sarial,S.Robin(…..),H.T.Nguyen.2001. Locating genomic regions associated with components of drought resistance in rice: Comparative mapping within and across species. Theor.Appl.Genetics .103(1):19.

Shen,L.,B.Courtois,K.L.McNally,S.Robin and Z.Li.2001. Evaluation of near isogenic lines  of rice introgressed with QTLs for root depth through marker aided selection. Theor.Appl.Genetics.103(1):75

Robin,S.,M.S.Pathan,B.Courtois,R.Lafitte,S.Carandang,S.Lanceras,M.Amante,H.T.Nguyen and Z.Li.2003. Mapping osmotic adjustment in an advanced backcross inbred population of rice. Theor.Appl.Genetics,107(7):1288.

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. 166:291-305

Kavithamani,D, S.Robin, S.Manonmani, D.Malarvizhi, R.Pushpam, K.Mohana Sundaram and T.S.Raveendran.2009. Molecular Tagging of Therma Sensitive Genic Male Sterility gene in fine grain indica rice.p339-342. In Xie, F., Hardy, B. (Eds) 2009. Accelerating Hybrid Rice Development ,Los Bonos,International Rice Research Institute, Philippines 698 p.(ISBN : 978-971-22-0252-0).

Pushpam R., Robin,S., S.Manonmani, K.Mohana Sundaram and T.S.Raveendran.2009. Developing non aromatic CMS lines and identifying restorers…..for hybrid rice breeding p197- 206. In Xie, F., Hardy,B. (Eds) 2009. Accelerating Hybrid Rice Development ,Los Bonos,International Rice Research Institute, Philippines 698p.(ISBN:978-971-22-0252-0).

Rajeswari,S.,S.Robin,R.Chandirakala,N.Premalatha and S.Muthuramu.2010.Genetic analysis and character association of quality in rice.Oryza.47(2) : 86-90.

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. 

Sharma, S., Rabindran, R., Robin, S., Dasgupta, I. 2011. Analysis of the complete DNA sequence of rice tungro bacilliform virus from southern India indicates it to be a product of recombination. Arch Virol. 156:2257-2262

Mahalingam,A., S. Robin, K. Mohanasundaram and R. Pushpam.2012. Studies on genetic architecture of biparental progenies for important yield attributes in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Journal of Plant Breeding and Crop Science. 3(12): 296-301

Mahalingam,A, S. Robin and R. Rabindran.2012. Genetic studies of Enhanced disease reaction of Biparental progenies (BIPs) to Blast Disease of Rice . Journal of Rice Research , Vol. 4 No. 1 & 2 : 15-18

Robin, S and S.Manonmani,2012. Rice (Oryza sativa).  In: Breeding Field Crops (Ed). Bharathwaj,D.N. Agro bios (India),Agro House, Jodhpur. pp.23-74.      (ISBN No. 978-81-7754-474-9) 

Kumar,A., S.B. Verulkar, N.P. Mandal, M. Variar, V.D. Shukla, J.L. Dwivedi, B.N. Singh, O.N. Singh, P. Swain, A.K. Mall, S. Robin, R. Chandrababu, A. Jain, S.M. Haefele, H.P. Piepho and A. Raman. 2012. High-yielding, drought-tolerant, stable rice genotypes for the shallow rainfed lowland drought-prone ecosystem. Field Crops Research.133:37.

Verulkar, S.B., N.P. Mandal, J.L. Dwivedi, B.N. Singh, P.K. Sinha, R.N. Mahato, P. Dongre, O.N. Singh, L.K. Bose, P. Swain, S. Robin, R. Chandrababu, S. Senthil, A. Jain, H.E. Shashidhar, S. Hittalmani, C. Vera Cruz, T. Paris, A. Raman, S. Haefele, et al. 2010.Breeding resilient and productive genotypes adapted to drought-prone rainfed ecosystem of India. Field Crops Research.117(2-3):197–208